Collaborative Practice Facilitator

**Position: Collaborative Practice Facilitator/Coordinator**

**Status: Regular Full-time**

**Hours of Work: 8:30am - 4:30am Monday to Friday**

**Program: Child Safety**

**Location: 2020 Yukon Street, Vancouver BC**

**Classification: Delegated Social Worker Grid 21 - 24 (+ 1 Temporary Market Adjustment)**

**Salary: $69,760.70 to $89,268.45 annually**

At VACFSS, we ensure that the rights, safety, well-being and spirit of Indigenous children and families are upheld, honored and protected. We strive to eliminate oppression, discrimination and marginalization within our community. We acknowledge and honor the inherent wisdom, capacity and resourcefulness of our community in designing programs and services to care for our own children and families. Accordingly, we are dedicated to planning, developing, and implementing creative and innovative Indigenous programs and services in collaboration with members of our community and other agencies.
- Engage in restorative child safety practice with Vancouver's Indigenous community
- Use your communication, collaboration and facilitation skills to build trust-based working relationships
- Receive a competitive salary of **$69,760.70 to $89,268.45 annually** PLUS a comprehensive benefits package

**JOB SUMMARY**

Reporting to the Collaborative Practice Team Leader, the Collaborative Practice Coordinator works collaboratively in a neutral role with the social worker, immediate and extended family (kinship), community members and other supports identified by family to develop a plan of care to address child safety concerns. The Coordinator works collaboratively with Program Social Worker to ensure that the family understands the issues identified in the structured decision making tools and also explains how the process is intended to deal with these issues.

**PURPOSE OF POSITION**

The Coordinator facilitates and helps to implement the co-operative family directed intervention planning process that is available to families whose children are identified by the Director to be in need of safety. It provides a non-adversarial route for developing risk reduction plans but is not intended to replace the court process. The parents will have the option of using this method or choosing alternative methods of dispute resolution including court. The participation of the immediate and extended families is a vital part of this initiative. This process allows the families to be directly involved with the creation of the plan or if necessary, in a supervisory role.

Most integral to this process is the Coordinator working to ensure the family is supported by allowing the family to identify their own strengths, supports and to implement the meeting in such a way that honors and reflects their cultural identity, practices and protocols.

**KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Planning and Facilitation by**:

- Interviewing the client and family.
- Assessing the problem.
- Providing information about the organization to the client and family.
- Contacting the clients and families to assess the willingness to participate in programs.
- Family Group Conferences are family-driven processes, that involves a private family time component and is not time limited.
- Collaborative Planning Conferences are scheduled 90-minute meetings utilized to address immediate safety planning for families.
- The coordinator will also facilitate other meetings at request of the Team Leader such as; Integrated Case Management meetings and other informal family planning meetings.

**Provides and prepares all professional participants to ensure clarity of roles by**:

- Providing information and referrals to other community service providers, resources and professionals as deemed necessary.
- Contacting Social Workers assigned to the case and ensuring that all relevant information concerning risk and safety concerns involving client and family are met.
- Working with a professional team and liaising with colleagues and other professionals.
- Meeting with families in their homes or communities to identify conference participants and to clarify confidentiality and potential safety issues.

**Integrated Case Management**:

- Ensuring that the family has an advocate or support person to attend the meetings and any important conferences as required
- Ensuring that the views of the child and/or children are always heard
- Developing an analysis and plan of action around issues of resistance or reluctance
- Explaining the goals and effectiveness of their participation in the process
- Establishing an atmosphere of safety and respect that supports the strengths and integrity of the family
- Involving the family members to establish guidelines about how they would like the discussions to happen

**Maintains case files by**:

- Preparing and submitting meeting notes in a timely manner.
- Ensuring that any changes made to the Family Plan are well documented
- Preparing and providing information on assessments, progres