Social Worker

**Requisition ID**: 388103

**Posting End Date**: September 12, 2025

**City**: Winnipeg

**Site**: Klinic Community Health

**Work Location**: Klinic Community Health

**Department / Unit**: Counselling Services

**Posting Category**: Clinical

**Union**: MAHCP

**Anticipated**Start - October 15, 2025**

**FTE**: 1.0 (2 Positions Available)

**Anticipated Shift**: Days; Evenings; Weekends

**Annual Base Hours**: 2080

Klinic Community Heath is a pro-choice community health centre that provides primary care, education and counselling services to our local community and throughout Manitoba. Driven by our vision of creating healthy and engaged communities, we promote health and quality of life for people of every age, background, ethnicity, gender identity and socio-economic circumstances. Rooted in social justice values, we believe that everyone deserves quality care, support and respect.

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Social Workers provide client centred guidance and support to clients accessing counselling services. They uphold Klinic’s vision, mission and values while promoting social change, problem-solving in human relationships, and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Social Workers are part of the inter-professional team at Klinic within the counselling services. Taking into consideration the Social Determinants of Health model, Social Workers recognize the complexity of interactions between clients and their environment and the impact of this complexity on the mental health and wellbeing of clients.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:
- Bachelor of Social Work degree
- Current registration with the Manitoba College of Social Workers
- Minimum of two years supervised experience in community health or related area
- Ability to work in an inter-professional environment
- Ability to work from a harm reduction model
- Strong understanding of the counselling process
- Understanding the social determinants of health and their impact
- Demonstrated commitment to community-based health care
- Strong Knowledge of community resources
- Experience providing crisis counselling including risk assessments
- Experience facilitating groups
- Awareness of and sensitive to issues of cultural diversity
- Ability to work from an anti-oppression and anti-racism perspective
- Demonstrated effective communications skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends
- Ability to work independently and demonstrated decision making abilities
- Proven ability to work from an empowerment model
- Proven ability to optimize team and program functioning

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
- Provide social work services within the parameters of the Manitoba College of Social Workers Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics
- Conducts intake for counselling services
- Provide short-term supportive counselling
- Provide crisis support when a referral to the crisis lines is not appropriate
- Assist clients navigate formal social service systems such as EIA
- Provide support, information, referral and links to appropriate community resources
- Liaise with other programs at Klinic for health services
- Engage in building and supporting an inter-professional environment
- Liaise with community resources/networks and service organizations
- Facilitates groups
- Provide public education and training activities
- Provides support for learners
- Works as part of a team and promote team functioning
- Charts appropriately according to Klinic procedures
- Participates in training courses and in services offered elsewhere and by Klinic to maintain and improve quality of service
- Attend staff meetings as required
- Participates in program planning, evaluation and quality monitoring including completing daily statistics
- Participate in formal self - evaluations by identifying strengths and limitations
- Seek appropriate supervision/consultation of own actions
- Adheres to all agency policies, protocols, procedures and promotes best practice
- Other duties and functions related to their job description not exceeding the above qualifications

**Additional Requirements**:

- Work environment consists of smudging
- Satisfactory Criminal Record, Child Abuse and Adult Abuse Registry checks

**SALARY RANGE** $40.536 per hour - $52.900 per hour

Klinic is committed to working towards having a more equitable and diverse work force at all levels of our organization. We welcome and encourage persons who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve to apply, those who identify as Indigenous, Black, Persons of Colour, 2SLBGTQQIA+, and / or those living with disabilities. Applicants are invited to self-declare in their cover letter.

Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process. Applicants are asked to please self-declare in their cover letter.