Description
SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
Person who designs, implements, updates, analyses and assesses activities in one or more social programs.
SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS
Person who carries out design, evaluation, orientation, consultation, updating and analysis activities in one or more social programs of the Miskasowin Healing (MHL). The employee reports to the Director Healing Lodge, is part of the regional interdisciplinary teams of the MHL and works in close partnership with the local interdisciplinary teams of the Allied Health Professionals and local HROs. Functions include: * Conducts activities that includes the conception, updating, analysis and evaluation of one or more MHL programs in partnership with the local CMC teams;
o Supports the development of MHL protocols and guidelines and ensures that these are followed, respected and adapted continuously to the clients' needs aligning MHL mandates;
o In collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, they organize and facilitate group discussion of cases with the MHL and CMC staff, plans to address the needs of various but separate categories of users, avoiding overlaps or working in silos with the local CMC teams;* Identifies and answers MHL team's and clients' needs, contributes to the training needs in the healing lodge. * Works in close collaboration with the local management team to help improve the services, provides guidance and support to the clinic's personnel when required by the supervisor;
o Creates and uses the material necessary to the application of the intervention or plans of care/rehabilitation plans.* Carries out psychosocial assessment, care, counselling, assists participants (clients) and their family in setting personal goals by providing them with guidance and refers participants (clients) to the various resources and pathways available to meet their needs, including appropriate professionals using the interdisciplinary approach and their HRO pivot mandate.* Establishes a relationship of respect and trust with participants (clients), their family and the community members and applies principles of MHL.* Ensures the involvement and awareness of the family members and the surrounding community in the application of the intervention, plans of care/rehabilitation plans or community-based programs or activities.* Accompanies the participants (clients) all along their path to resolve psychosocial and emotional problems and allow them to increase their self-reliance, quality of life and self-determined healing.* Organises and manages packages of support to enable service beneficiaries to lead the fullest lives possible, informs about various coping strategies in regard to the issues in their personal and family everyday problems;
o Initiates, supports and carries out development or research projects necessary to meet the users' needs in collaboration with local and regional partners within the organization;
o Provides statistics, indicators, and units of measures, and produces various types of reports;* Carries out on call duties and all other related tasks upon the request of her/his immediate supervisor.
REQUIREMENTS
Education: * Depending on the given sphere of activities, must have the required university degree in social sciences, such as criminology, social work, sexology or psychology;* A human relations officer who has the required university degree in social work and is a member of the Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux du Québec may use the title of professional social worker;
Experience:
- Two (2) years of relevant experience.
Knowledge and Abilities:
- Excellent interpersonal and listening communication skills;
- Excellent critical thinking, synthesis, organizational and decision-making skills;
- Practical, attentive to detail and analytical;
- Sense of accountability, resourcefulness and vigilance;
- High adaptability capacity;
- Open minded to other's language, culture, values and beliefs;
- Good teaching skills;
- Teamwork skills;
- Autonomous, flexible, discrete and empathetic.
LANGUAGE* Fluent in English and Cree;* Fluency in French is an asset.