The Government of the Northwest Territories
Location
Yellowknife, NT | Canada
Job description
Job Information
The Case Aide provides casework assistance to Family and Community Social Workers and work directly with children, youth, and families served through Child, Family and Community Wellness. The Case Aide will play a supporting role in the delivery of services to families, assisting with day to day case management support, and supporting permanency planning, family re-unification, placement, along with other duties as they present.
The Case Aide reports to, and is supervised by the Regional Supervisor, Child and Family Services, and is responsible for providing services such as transporting clients to appointments, providing escorts for children/youth as required, conducting home visits related to both prevention and protection services, supervising access visits, ensuring timely documentation, researching information, coordinating case conferences and cultural activities, attending meetings, providing referrals, drafting reports and assisting with other duties as and when required.
The Case Aide must have knowledge and the ability to support the development and implementation of an access plan and coordinate schedule with children, youth, biological families and foster families; Knowledge of child development, and of parenting techniques; and the ability to provide transportation both inside and outside of community for children and youth including relocation/placement in foster homes, appointments, and supervised access visits. For more information on the required knowledge, skills, and abilities please read the attached job description.
The above qualifications would be attained by a Diploma in Social Work, Child Development, Youth Care or Early Childhood Education.
Inquiries Only:
Department of Finance
Government of the Northwest Territories
YELLOWKNIFE CENTRE 5TH FLOOR
BOX 1320 YELLOWKNIFE NT X1A 2L9
Tel (867) 767-9154 Extension 14106
Fax (867) 873-0445
[email protected]
Note: If you do not receive electronic notification confirming receipt of your application, please follow up via telephone.
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Salary
$64.27k - $76.73k per year
