Housing & Supports Social Worker

Position Summary:

The Housing & Supports Social Worker will work directly with supportive housing program participants living with mental illness in an integrated community setting. The Housing & Supports Social Worker will complete mental health assessments, collaborate with clients to maintain tenancy and achieve their goals, participate in care planning and crisis intervention, and facilitate family/support meetings. This position also involves maintaining communication with relevant agencies, organizing workshops and therapeutic groups, supporting activities of daily living (ADL’s), and connecting individuals with community resources.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work required

• Current Social Work license/registration with Manitoba College of Social Workers required

• Previous experience working with a residential program is considered an asset.

Knowledge, Skills and Ability:

• Excellent crisis intervention and conflict mediation skills, with ability to remain calm in crisis.

• Knowledge of psychiatric symptomology and suicide assessment and intervention

• Cultural competence and a demonstrated ability to adapt interventions to ensure equity, access, and accommodation. 

• Knowledge of community resources relevant to the target population being served and/or demonstrated ability to search for applicable resources/information

• A broad understanding of all factors that impact an individual’s mental health and well-being, including the social determinants of health, trauma, poverty and homelessness.

• Personal qualities of empathy, understanding, patience, and flexibility.

• Excellent rapport-building skills.

• Working knowledge of harm reduction, person-centred practice, trauma informed care, and recovery principles and practice.

• Demonstrates skills in therapeutic interventions – individual, family and group.

• Has a working knowledge of the Mental Health Act, including confidentiality requirements.

• Familiar with the network of community agencies and resources available to participants.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent computer skills with proficiency in all Microsoft programs

• Has a working knowledge of respectful workplace requirements and demonstrated ability to maintain positive working relationships.

• Excellent organizational, prioritization and time management skills.

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

• Committed to ongoing personal and professional development.

Other Requirements and Conditions of Employment:

• Satisfactory Criminal Record Check (with the Vulnerable Sector Check).

• Satisfactory Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check.

• Valid Driver’s License.

• Current Vehicle Registration, indicating 3rd Party Liability Insurance of $1,000,000 or more.

• Valid registration with Manitoba College of Social Workers.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Completing regular mental health assessments using the RAI-CMH tool.

• Obtaining collateral information and social histories for assessment purposes.

• Working collaboratively with clients to identify, develop, and fulfill goals they identify as meaningful and relevant.

• Consulting, collaborating, and participating in meetings with the participants’ supports, to plan, inform and review care plans in relation to participants goals.

• Assisting participants with access to benefits through gathering information and completing forms and applications as required.

• Collaborating with participants to find meaningful daytime activities including employment and/or volunteer opportunities.

• Providing support to de-escalate and stabilize crisis.

• Maintaining ongoing communication with CMHW, PACT, Public Guardian and Trustee, and all other agencies involved in participant’s care.

• Arranging and facilitating family/support network meetings, which may include:

  • preparing the agenda

  • informing the team members of the agenda and goals for the meetings

  • chairing meetings as appropriate

• Completing all required documentation.

• Discharge/transition planning as directed.

• Developing and facilitating therapeutic groups, which includes reviewing group material routinely with the Program Development Coordinator to algin with evidence-based practice.

• Arranging workshops in partnership with other Eden staff or community organizations.

• Assisting with self-sufficiency in Activities of Daily Living (e.g., cooking, cleaning, personal hygiene) as needed.

• Supporting participants to identify and access needed community resources, as appropriate, in collaboration with the support team.

• Navigating access to resources using referral, direct support (e.g., accompaniment), resource arrangement, and advocacy.

• Upholding and reflecting the values of Eden Health Care Services (hope, integrity, excellence, compassion, respect, and acceptance). 

• Participating in the orientation of new staff. 

Other Duties:

• Consulting with supervisor on a regular basis.

• Attending in-services and other educational events as part of mandatory training and as other opportunities arise; continuing competency.

• Participating in committee work as required.

• Supervising Social Work students and acts as a preceptor as opportunities arise.

• Other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

• Must be physically and mentally capable of carrying out the duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Eden welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process. Full job description available upon request. Apply to: edenhr@edenhealth.mb.ca.