Reference number : P-22-23-3004
Job Category (Job Alert) : Social Work
Department : Services for Students
Services : Professionals
Immediate Supervisor\'s Name : Anja Vroomen
Position Status : Part-time Replacement
Length of the contract : Please see the job description
Work Location : Vanier College
Work Schedule : T.B.D.
External Posting Start Date : 2023-03-29
External Posting End Date and Time : 2023-04-04 17:00
Salary Scale : $49,456 - $87,626
Expected Start Date : 2023-05-01
Vanier College is an English-language public college with more than 6000 daytime students from over 90 different nationalities. We have a thriving Continuing Education division that provides services to adult learners, international students as well as to community and corporate clients. Vanier has approximately 1000 employees and offers a stimulating work environment and a beautiful green campus. Our dynamic faculty and staff enjoy numerous benefits including an employee assistance program, employee fitness programs, professional development, daycare, educational fee waivers as well as music concerts and other activities.

Our institution is committed to ensuring representation in its community; consequently, Vanier College welcomes applications from members of visible minorities, ethnic minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. The institution maintains its commitment to excellence in Education and recognizes that increasing the diversity of its staff supports this objective.

We offer a remarkable range of job opportunities so we invite you to navigate our job postings and apply so that you too can become a proud member of the Vanier College Community.
Description :
Reporting to the Coordinator of Professional Services, the Social Worker provides prevention, screening and intervention with students who are experiencing or are likely to experience emotional, social, academic or family problems in order to enable them to achieve their goals through academic success, social and emotional adjustment and integration into college life.

More specifically, but not limited to, the Social Worker:

• Carries out an evaluation of social functioning of the individual within the framework of the protective supervision of persons of full age or the mandate of protection (this activity is reserved exclusively for social workers);
• Provides short-term counselling to a diverse set of clients dealing with various issues;
• Sets up activities designed to ensure that students maximize their potential, particularly in their personal, family and social life;
• Designs and takes part in screening, outreach, awareness and prevention programs focused on issues related to mental health and academic success of the student population;
• Intervenes in order to defuse crises or emergency situations and suggest avenues for resolving them;
• Develops and maintains contacts with representatives of the health and social services network and other partner organizations in their own area of competence;
• Collaborates with staff and faculty, as well as service providers or other organizations as needed;
• Attends Counselling team meetings and participates in case studies within multidisciplinary teams;
• Prepares and updates records adhering to the standards of their profession and the College\xe2\x80\x99s by-laws.

Other related duties which fall within the scope of the classification of this position may be assigned.

Schedule: Part-Time, 80%. Schedule, t.b.d.
Contract: A.S.A.P. until June 30, 2023, with the possibility of an extension
Classification: Travailleur ou travailleuse sociale (Social Worker)
Requirements :
Qualifications:

• Membership in the Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux du Qu\xc3\xa9bec.

Conditions related to the specific position:

• Bachelors of Social Work;
• Ability to set short term objectives and use a solution focused approach;
• Strong crisis assessment and crisis management skills;
• Recent and demonstrated experience in providing mental health support services;
• Knowledge of the secondary and post-secondary educational systems, especially in Quebec;
• Excellent English oral and written skills (to be tested);
• Strong French oral and written skills (to be tested);
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint (to be tested);
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team;
• Psychotherapy permit (an asset);
• Knowledge of Canva (an asset).

Comments : If your work experience has changed since your last visit, please be sure to attach a new resume.

Note that a cover letter is mandatory, please be sure to attach yours.

If you are applying on a mobile device (smartphone, tablet), you will receive an acknowledgment email asking you to go update your file by attaching your CV in order for your application to be considered.

We thank all those who apply, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.