The Family Centre is looking for individuals who are interested in challenging, frontline social work, providing in-home support to high-risk children and families.  The Family Intervention Generalist (FIG) was conceived in order to support the concept of Outcomes Based Service Delivery (OBSD). The guiding principles of OBSD are early engagement, family centered involvement, outcome based practice, collaboration and shared responsibility with Children Services and flexibility/innovation within the delivery of services.

The Family Centre has been working with community partners to build long term, promotional approaches to reverse the trend that an increasing proportion of our community’s children are at high risk.  In our efforts to address the increasing number of families that are disenfranchised we have developed a conceptual framework to focus on healthy and safe communities whereby children live, grow and develop in family settings. This model has five fundamental constructs.

• Community based model:  working both with formal clients those that have active files, with specific goals, status under the child and youth enhancement act and informal clients. A relational, community based framework allows for hundreds of relationships with children and families, some that never attain active status or come in and out of the system more fluidly building on the success of previous engagements.
• Ecological Approach-Looking at the child within family, within the school and community. Attempting to build capacity in all of those areas to work towards sustainable change.
• Resiliency Theory- Resiliency research has been helpful in providing us with a language or philosophical perspective. It has also given us a way to understand the correlation between protective factors (developmental strengths) and risk factors such as violence, addiction, sexual acting out. We believe the NOM and the resiliency research is compatible.
• Collaborative Work: Collaborative approach honoring all professions and agencies.  Raising children within community takes all of us. The key is how do we work together to continue to reduce funding, professional and practice silo’s.
• Promotion/Prevention/Intervention/interdependence, the full spectrum of support is required to meet the goals of OBSD. To ensure that children are reunited with families more quickly, to increase placement stability, to decrease re-entry to services,   requires long term sustainable goals that focus on healthy and safe communities whereby children live, grow and develop in family settings.
• Actively embraces any job duty that is required for the fulfillment of the job and any duty deemed appropriate by your supervisor.
• Own and maintain a vehicle capable of transporting children in the backset, with a child safety seat provided by TFC.

Family Intervention Generalists are ultimately responsible for the coordination, initiation and mobilization of internal and external resources required to meet the permanency objective as negotiated with Children Services.

Join our dynamic team of human care service professionals who are committed to developing positive working relationships by as an integrated team member to meet the needs of children, families and communities that lead to successful outcomes. The Family Centre requires Child & Youth Care workers for our Out of Home Placement Program. You will be part of a team that provides a family-oriented environment for children and youth aged 0 - 18 years. You will provide supports to parents through the reunification process, which includes working with sibling groups and their parents in one of our Parented Attachment Homes.

DUTIES: Include case management, teaching and support, community integration, home maintenance and meal preparation.

The Family Centre is currently hiring energetic individuals interested in working with children and families as a part of the Parental Support Program. The Parental Support Program provides services to the Safe Visitation Program, Military Families and families from the Outcomes Based Service Delivery Program. This Program assists parents to maintain family functioning by helping to maintain routine and structure in the home. Parental Support Workers model appropriate boundaries, teach parenting techniques and appropriate discipline. Workers help to guide parents to incorporate this in their day to day parenting, routines, structure and discipline, as well as emphasize the importance of play, school and community involvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide supervision and care for children
• Provide maintenance of household routines including cleaning, meal preparation, grocery shopping, and running errands
• Transporting clients to appointments and visits
• Supervise visits with parents and children in care
• Teach and model appropriate parenting and household management skills
• Provides emotional support to families
• Strengthen relationships by empowering and nurturing the emotional bond between child/youth and their caregivers.
• Observes and documents family interactions, reporting any concerns to supervisor
• Monitor the ongoing success or challenges inherent in the reunification experience, continue to identify emerging or enhanced strengths, and develop new strategies for additional assets
• Reinforces teaching from other professionals working with the family
• Assists the family in connecting to community resources
• Actively participates in monthly services team meetings
• Completes administrative responsibilities such as, contact notes, time sheets and filing
• Attends staff meetings, trainings and supervision meetings as required

Salary

Casual Rate range from $14.79/hour to $19.79/hour

To Apply

Email resume and cover letter to Lisa Stern, Manager of Family Intervention

lisa.stern@the-family-centre.com