Social Worker

HIRING

• All applicants are welcome (including youth, veterans, students, aboriginals, newcomers/new immigrants, capable seniors, citizens, and permanent residents).

The Expert Collective is looking for a social worker who is client focused, dependable, flexible, organized, reliable, a team player, good judgement, and values and ethics that align with ours as a company. We would also like some own who has interpersonal awareness, effective interpersonal skills, excellent oral and written communication. The Expert Collective is a not-for-profit that helps youth and new commers to Canada find reliable and honest work. We would like a social worker who can supervise our part time youth workers to help the youth with everything going on in their lives, and help these youth find a possible program that helps them. We would like our employees to be able to work in a fast-paced environment, work under pressure, stick to tight deadlines, pay attention to detail, and handle large work loads.

Business Operation Name: The Expert Collective

Address: 625 14th Street NW Calgary, Alberta

Position Title: Registered Social Worker

# Of Vacancies: 1

Job Duties

• Interview clients to assess their situation and determine the types of service required and eligibility
• Supervise other social workers, paid para-professorial staff, student trainees and volunteers
• Preform administrative tasks
• Provide counsel and therapy to help clients resolve social and personal problems
• Plan programs of assistance for clients
• Refer clients to agencies that provide financial assistance, legal aid, housing, medical treatment, and other services
• Investigate cases of child abuse or neglect and take authorized protective action when necessary
• Recruit and hire staff
• Provide public education and consultation regarding counselling services, issues, and methods
• Serve as a member if an interdisciplinary team working with a client group
• Act as an advocate for client groups in the community
• Lobby for solutions to problems affecting client groups
• Conduct social research
• Write research papers, consultation services to government and other organization
• Provide mediation service and psychosocial assessments
• Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and social programs
• Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs

Work Setting: Non-for-profit

Terms of Employment: Term or Contract 8 Months, Full-Time

Employment work times: Morning, Day

Language of Work: English

Wage: To Be Negotiated

Hours: 40/week

Location of Work: 625 14th Street NW Calgary, Alberta

Skills Required

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Work Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years

Required Licence: Provincial Certificate of Registration

Please send us your resume at hr@theexpertcollective.ca