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Location

Petawawa, ON | Canada

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Job description

Child Family Protection Worker

Child Family Protection Worker

Family and Children's Services of County of Renfrew
Location: Petawawa, Ontario
Posted: January 16th 2024
Deadline: January 30th, 2024
Salary: $58,119 – $84,029 per year

Description:

Family & Children’s Services of Renfrew County is a multi-service agency committed to providing preventative, protective, and socially inclusive services and programming that empower and strengthen everyone. We are focused on cultivating a team-oriented work environment where everyone thrives. Our goal is to develop and strengthen collaborative partnerships to increase the availability, accessibility, and quality of care in our communities.

Our agency commitments include: moving forward with anti-oppressive practice, French-language services, and working alongside indigenous communities.

We are recruiting for a Child and Family Protection Worker in Petawawa. This is a contract position to June 2024.

The Child and Family Protection Worker (CFPW) will complete the investigation and assessment of child protection concerns and will make decisions with respect to appropriate service response as per standards and protocol. This role provides short-term clinical services for up to 60 days following the original intake screen and assignment to them as a protection investigation. The basic objective is to ensure an immediate agency response to reports which suggest that a child is at risk of harm in his/her current environment.  

Duties performed on a regular basis:

• Provides assessment, intervention and case management services with families in need of services
• Intervenes actively with clients and their networks to assess risk, build on family strengths, build parental capacity and act decisively to ensure permanency of care
• Facilitates and supports clients in accessing appropriate collateral services
• Apprehends or assists in placement and admissions for children to ensure their safety
• Demonstrates timely and clearly planned case management
• Participates and provides feedback in the context of permanency planning conferences
• Provides night duty (emergency) services as scheduled
• Reviews and assesses the need for closure at investigation or the need for continued on-going services
• Meets with a supervisor on a regular basis to review case planning, quality assurance items, performance, self-care, employment goals and participates in team-related initiatives and activities 
• Assumes other related duties

Qualifications

• Masters or bachelor of social work
• Individual counselling and group facilitation skills
• Ability to collaborate as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledgeable of computer-based technologies relevant to report writing, the collection of client information, data and other common office tasks
• French-language skills are considered an asset
• Must be able to work flexible hours.
• Ability to identify systemic barriers to equity and anti-oppressive practices and apply this lens to your work with FCSRC.
• Knowledge, experience, and understanding of the culture, history and current oppressions experienced by marginalized groups. 
• Ability to understand and apply anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-cisgenderist, anti-ageist, anti-classist, anti-heterosexist lenses to social problems.
• Understanding of the CYFSA, signs of safety, and strength-based approach

Additional Information

Closing: January 30, 2024

Family and Children’s Services of Renfrew County is committed to providing a barrier-free workplace. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

Contact Information

Family and Children's Services of County of Renfrew
Petawawa, Ontario, Canada

Website: www.fcsrenfrew.on.ca

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Salary

$58.12k - $84.03k per year