Social Worker

**Social Worker**: **Job ID**: - 233221 **Posting status**: - Open **Organization**: - Ministry of the Solicitor General **Division**: - Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre **City**: - Hamilton **Position(s) language**: - English **Job term**: - 1 Permanent **Job code**: - C10104 - Social Worker 2 (COR) **Salary**: - $1,352.75 - $1,717.58 Per week* *Indicates the salary listed as per the OPSEU Collective Agreement. **Consider Your Next Career with the Ministry of the Solicitor General, Ontario Public Service** We are currently seeking a qualified Social Worker to provide professional assessment, rehabilitative, and discharge services for inmates at the Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre. Take on this unique opportunity to showcase your skills and expertise **About the job**: - Formulate reintegration/release plans in collaboration with professional and community partners and inmates - Provide crisis intervention services - Prepare clinical assessments and statistical reports - Collaborate on multidisciplinary care plans - Facilitate group and individual rehabilitative programming - Provide one-to - one counselling - Participate in social work research activities and evaluate treatment programs and services - Provide social work consultation and training to staff **What you bring to the team**: **Mandatory requirements**: - You are currently registered as a Social Worker in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) **Specialized Knowledge and Experience**: - You have in-depth knowledge of, and experience with, theories, principles and practices of social work normally acquired through a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) or a Master of Social Work (MSW) - You are able to develop rehabilitative program/treatment plans as well as conduct individual/group therapy and crisis intervention - You have knowledge of risk assessment tools and rehabilitative/treatment options in order to recommend appropriate classification placement - You have knowledge of community support services to assist inmates in formulating reintegration plans - You have a general understanding of the justice system in Ontario **Communication and Interpersonal Skills**: - You can liaise with clients, correctional staff, and community support services - You can provide individual counselling, evaluation, and assessment services to offenders with complex needs - You are able to connect and build rapport with a diverse client population with varied cultural, ethnic, and educational backgrounds - You have experience working within a multi-disciplinary setting, including community agencies - You have proven tact, discretion and sensitivity to discuss problems/options with offenders and maintain confidentiality - You have advanced written communication skills to prepare case notes, assessments, and progress and statistical reports **Analytical, Assessment, and Problem-Solving Skills**: - You can gather and compile data from multiple sources to identify inmate needs - You can develop/modify rehabilitative, treatment, and case management plans **Organizational Skills**: - You can manage conflicting priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain adequate records **How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility**: We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace. Visit the OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service. We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's Human Rights Code. Refer to the "How to apply" section if you require a disability-related accommodation. **Additional information**: - Thursday, August 28, 2025 11:59 pm EDT **Position details**: - 1 English Permanent, 165 Barton St E, Hamilton, West Region, Vulnerable Sector Check, Credit History Check, Local Police Databases Search, PIP/NICHE/RMS **Compensation group**: - Ontario Public Service Employees Union **Work hours**: - Schedule 3-7 **Category**: - Health and Social Services **Posted on**: - Thursday, August 14, 2025 **Note**: - **About security checks**: A criminal or other federal offence record **does not automatically disqualify you** from the position. We consider each situation based on the position's responsibilities. If a check is needed and you've lived outside of Canada in the past 5 years for 6 or more months in a row, or if you are not a Canadian resident, you'll need to provide an out-of-country police clearance certificate from the country you lived in. Employment screening checks are only reviewed and evaluated by the Transition and Security Office, which also maintains them and keeps them