Social Worker

**About Us**

St.Amant supports over 5,000 people in Manitoba with developmental disabilities, autism and acquired brain injury. We are a not-for-profit organization that offers a wide range of supports for adults, children and their families. Our over 2,000 staff follow a person centred approach and adapt to the needs of each person and each family. St.Amant is guided by its core values of Collaboration, Hospitality, Excellence and Respect.

**Position Summary and Scope of Service**:
St.Amant's core values reflect a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. St.Amant maintains ongoing commitment to recruiting a diverse and talented workforce, which is paramount to supporting the vibrant community we serve.

The Service Facilitator has operational responsibility for the Community Stabilization Service (CSS) and plays a critical role in ensuring that the CSS succeeds as a short-term, interdisciplinary consultative service to people with intellectual disabilities whose living arrangements are at risk of breakdown due to complex challenging behaviours or other reasons.

Using a strengths-based, person
- and family-centered approach, the Social Worker promotes a positive environment for the individual and works collaboratively to support formal and informal networks, and enhance knowledge, competencies and skills. The Social Worker takes an active role in promoting services and developing creative strategies to work with individuals, families, external service providers and systems, as required.

The Social Worker is responsible for scheduling and chairing interdisciplinary meetings, placing referrals for additional clinical services as required, and otherwise ensuring that services are delivered in a timely and time limited fashion. The Social Worker is responsible for coordinating education and training delivered by CSS team members, and works collaboratively with Community Support Workers to achieve positive outcomes that contribute to the person's dignity, quality of life and self-determination.

St.Amant, as part of an initiative entitled “Meaningful Connections”, seeks to expand the culture of support (“excellent caretaking”) to include an intentional focus on equipping a person with the opportunities and skills to develop relationships. The goal of this initiative is to have people we support exploring and establishing relationships with people in the community.

**Qualifications**:
**Educational**:

- Must possess a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Degree from an accredited university

**Professional**:

- Must be eligible for and maintain registration with the Manitoba College of Social Workers including meeting all prescribed continuing education requirements of the profession
- Minimum of two years' social work experience in the area of developmental disabilities is preferred

**Clinical**:

- Demonstrated knowledge and experience using a family-centered model of service provision
- Knowledge of the history of services to people with disabilities, current trends, philosophies and practices concerning their care, education and lifestyles
- Extensive knowledge and experience working with children and families and experience working in the area of developmental disabilities/mental disabilities
- Knowledge and ability to function within the legislation pertinent to practice, including CFS Act, Vulnerable Persons Legislation, and PHIA
- Expertise in conducting social/family assessments using an ecological framework and family-centered approach
- Knowledge of psychosocial and environmental factors involved in chronic disability which may impact family functioning or adjustment, and the ability to define appropriate intervention strategies
- Knowledge of child development, family relationships and dynamics
- Knowledge of Manitoba Guidelines for Identification and Reporting Abuse (CFS Act / Vulnerable Persons Living with Disabilities Act)
- Ability to prepare an intervention, contract with individuals and families, appropriately assist in goal definition, engage in problem solving processes, focus on client strengths, restructure or access appropriate supports, define time frames and plan for transition
- Ability to form appropriate professional/trust relationship with clients
- Demonstrated counseling skills including supportive, adjustment, and crisis counseling
- Ability to identify high risk situations and respond appropriately
- Working knowledge of service systems and ability to creatively access or develop informal and formal supports or resources
- Ability to document plans and interventions accurately and in a timely manner, using standardized program protocol and formats
- Ability to communicate openly and appropriately using positive interpersonal communication skills
- Knowledge of the dynamics inherent in the client-worker relationship and skillful in preparing for transition and in determining the nature of support required upon termination
- Ability to develop and conduct specialized