Family Court Support Worker

4 weeks ago

Oshawa, Canada Luke's Place Full time

**Position**: Family Court Support Worker / Legal Support Worker
- **Company**: Luke’s Place
- **Type**: 1 Full Time Permanent Position
- **Classification**: Hybrid - One week a month you will be in court five days a week. For the remainder of the month, you will work four days in the office and one day from home.
- **Location**: 707 Simcoe Street South, Oshawa

**Imagine** a job where you can utilize your exceptional interpersonal skills to advocate for abused women to help ensure their rights are protected and justice is served.

**Imagine** a job where you guide women through the complicated family court process making certain they fully understand the proceedings and outcomes.

**Imagine** a job where you bring your feminist and community-minded attitude to build case management models, develop workshops, and provide appropriate counselling.

Add a collaborative team, a challenging variety of work, and an excellent work-life balance, and you have imagined a job at Luke’s Place

**About the organization**:
Luke’s Place conducts research to understand the impact of legal and related systems and processes on women’s lives. We engage in advocacy to share these findings and improve these systems and processes. Luke’s Place envisions a family law system that promotes healthy safe families living free from abuse and the threat of abuse.

**We value our staff**:
Working at Luke’s Place means that you will enjoy a collaborative and dynamic work environment. We provide you with work that is engaging and impactful while promoting the health and wellness of our team. We also provide:

- Starting salary range of $48,000 to $52,000
- Health and Wellness spending account
- Opportunities to be mentored by cross functional teams
- Flexible work environment that allows for work/life balance
- 35-hour work week
- Continuing education
- 3 weeks vacation allotment

**Position Overview**:
Luke’s Place is seeking a full-time experienced Family Court Support Worker/Legal Support Worker to provide professional delivery of our innovative programs and services to women who have experienced intimate partner abuse. This position requires delivery of in-person services at our Oshawa office, one day every 4 weeks at our Ajax office and in-person appearances at the Durham courthouse.

**You will succeed at Luke’s Place if you are**:
**Independent - **You are self-motivated and manage your time well.As a key go to person in the support team you must be able to organize and reorganize your day to meet often conflicting priorities and deadlines.

**Excellent Communicator -** You bring with you the ability to quickly build rapport with clients and colleagues and you do not shy away from in-person court work or making presentations. Your verbal style must be confident, reassuring, positive and clear.

**Empathetic -** It is imperative that our clients feel seen and heard. You must be an empathetic and active listener who takes the time to truly understand the issues abused women face.

**Responsibilities**:

- Utilize a case management model including conducting needs assessments, providing supportive counselling, and presenting information about the family court process
- Assist women in recording the history of abuse and helping them to build a safety plan
- Debrief and discuss court appearances
- Provide referrals to specialized community services
- Liaise with criminal court-based and family court-based services
- Communicate, collaborate, and maintain relationships with community partner agencies and family court services to advocate for the needs of women
- Ability to work independently and professionally at satellite service sites including the Durham family court
- Conduct workshops and facilitation of support groups
- Participate in delivery of education and training to service the community and the public

**Requirements and Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary diploma or degree in social work, social services, women’s studies, legal studies, or a combination of education and experience
- 3 Years of Support Worker experience
- Proven understanding of gender-based violence consistent with a trauma-informed and a feminist intersectional approach
- Knowledge of family law processes and issues faced by woman abuse survivors within the family law system is considered an asset
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to communicate in a professional and engaging manner
- Ability to structure time, independently set work priorities, and meet program expectations
- Demonstrated strong written and oral advocacy skills
- Proven experience in crisis intervention and empowering clients to achieve goals
- Commitment to growth and self reflection with support from supervisors and/or team members
- Professional case management training an asset
- A valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle

**Our Guiding Principles**:
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