Functionability Rehabilitation Services is hiring
Social Worker with LMIA

Work setting

• Community service organization
• Rehabilitation centre and special health institution

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Conduct psychosocial assessments
• Evaluate the effectiveness of social programs
• Interview client individually, in families, or in groups, to assess their situation and problems to determine the types of services required
• Prepare detailed plans for clients returning home after a stay in a rehabilitation centre
• Provide mediation services
• Take authorized protective action when necessary
• Perform 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
• Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team of professionals working with a client group
• Advocate on client’s behalf in courts or at hearings
• Lobby for solutions to problems affecting client groups
• Conduct social research
• Administer tests
• Provide consultation services to government and other organizations
• Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and the patient’s outcomes
• Develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs
• Supervise professional staff, program leaders and instructors and volunteer staff
• Monitor and evaluate