Child Welfare professionals provide first-response services to children, youth and families. Depending upon role, they investigate claims of abuse and maltreatment, assess risks and act to protect children in need, support children and their families, work to facilitate placement children and youth in foster or group homes and find suitable adoptive families for children in care when appropriate.

Child Protection Workers

After Hours, Family Services, Children Services, Resources, Kinship & Adoption

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Social Work degree, however consideration may be given to applicants who possess a Bachelor degree in a related field with 2 years’ experience in a Human Services field direct service role. Masters of Social Work degree would be considered an asset.
• Knowledge of the Child, Youth and Family Services Act and Ministry of Children and Youth Services, as well as clinical knowledge of social work theories, principles and practices.
• Effective assessment, interviewing, relationship building, problem solving & organization skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal,
• Demonstrated ability to work from a solutions-focused, strengths-based perspective.
• Valid Class G Ontario Driver’s License, $1M Insurance Liability and daily access to a vehicle, able to pass a Vulnerable Sector Police Check.
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills.
• Public speaking or presentation skills are desirable.

Brief Summary of Duties:

As an After-Hours Worker, you would be responsible for providing emergency child protection services after regular business hours and on weekends on a rotating basis to ensure child safety and positive outcomes.  You are responsible for receiving and responding to calls related to child protection issues and all requests for services involving children in care.  Our After-Hours roles work 7 shifts in a 14 day period.

As a Family Service Worker, you would be responsible for conducting child protection investigations and developing case plans and providing ongoing service with long-term child protection and case management services to an assigned caseload of children and families to ensure child safety and positive outcomes.

As a Children Services Worker you would be responsible for ensuring the delivery of service to children/youth in the care of the Society. You would formulate case plans and develop strategies working in collaboration with caregivers and other staff, foster care providers and community service agencies to ensure that children/youth’s needs are met.

As a Resource Worker you would be responsible for carrying out a variety of activities to ensure the children/youth in care have a safe place to live.  This includes the recruitment, screening, assessment, training, support, and supervision of resource homes (foster families) and/or group homes.

As a Kinship Worker you would work to support child and youth safety by using a family systems approach. Kinship Workers assess prospective extended family (kin) with respect to their abilities to care for a child or youth and support families on an ongoing basis to ensure the unique needs of kinship families offering both short term and permanent plans for children and youth are met.

As an Adoption Worker you would be responsible for recruiting, assessing, and supporting permanent family placements for children, matching the child’s needs and the ability of the adoptive family, while considering the wishes of the birth parents and the child where appropriate.  The Adoption Worker also provides counselling to birth parents considering placing their child for adoption as well as post-placement counselling and support to the child and the adoptive family to assist with the child’s integration into the family.

Managed Access Workers

Sometimes family members can visit their children with supervision. Access visits are part of an Access Plan. The plan goals may be to maintain relationship or to assess the family member’s ability to care the for child/youth. Visits can take place in the home, community or CAS offices.  The Managed Access Worker is responsible to supervise the visits, observe and assess the interactions between children and their family members, ensuring child safety and work towards the goals of the access plan.

• 2-year Community College Diploma with an emphasis on Social Services or a related field
• A basic understanding of criteria used to determine if a child is in need of protection and to determine the degree of risk to a child
• Demonstrated ability to meet with clients and implement elements of case plans formulated by Child Protection Workers.
• Demonstrated ability to work from a solution-focused, strengths-based, perspective
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Valid Class G Ontario Driver’s License, $1M Insurance Liability and daily access to a vehicle able to pass a Vulnerable Sector Police Check.,
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills

Child, Youth & Family Support Workers

The Child, Youth and Family Support Worker provides an in-home service to maintain, strengthen and promote healthy family functioning as well as child safety. Working from an approved plan and/or task list, the incumbent offers time-limited, task-oriented and specific services within the program to families, Kin Homes, Foster Homes and Youth in Care. Assessing needs of youth and providing programming to support in meeting the identified goals to prevent placement breakdowns, encourage reunifications and placement stability by working as a member of the clinical team to deliver identified services.

• 3-year Child & Youth Worker Diploma from an accredited community college
• Basic knowledge of the Child, Youth & Family Services Act, an understanding of the criteria used to determine if a child is in need of protection, the degree of risk to a child, and a basic knowledge of child protection proceedings
• Behaviour management group work skills
• Effective assessment, interviewing, relationship building, problem solving & organization skills
• Demonstrated ability to work from a solution-focused, strengths-based, perspective
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Valid Class G Ontario Driver’s License, $1M Insurance Liability and daily access to a vehicle able to pass a Vulnerable Sector Police Check.,
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills

Brief Summary of duties:

Child, Youth & Family Support Worker (CYFSW) work in three different area.

Working the Resource Homes, you would be responsible for contributing to the development and implementation of plans to support placement stability for children/youth in foster care.  The CYFSW is responsible for providing support to foster parents and directly with children/youth in the development and teaching of therapeutic intervention strategies and observing and evaluating the child’s response to the implemented strategies.

As a CYFSW supporting the Parent Enrichment Program (PEP), you would primarily provide an in-home service to enrich parenting skills and strategies through the foundation of Triple P training and practice. This intervention will assist parents to maintain, strengthen and promote healthy family functioning as well as child safety

As a CYFSW supporting Youth Transition to Independence Program, you would assist in providing individual support and group programming to transition age youth (age 15+) to meet the plan of care goals. This work includes supporting life skills development in the areas of money management, housing, schooling, relationships, and other areas needed for youth to be successful creating a plan and living on their own.

Administration Staff

Team Administrative Assistant provides administrative support to a designated team of Society staff and support to Reception.  As a Team Administrative Assistant, you use various administrative skills and methods to assist workers in the provision of services to families and children.

• An accredited Community College two-year diploma or equivalent in Business or Commercial studies.
• At least 18 months of experience of related business administration experience, preferably within a child welfare or non-profit environment.
• Excellent computer and keyboarding skills including working knowledge of a variety of software application..
• Demonstrated organization, interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of the Child, Youth and Family Service Act and CPIN would be a definite asset.

Operational Staff

In addition to the core work of providing child welfare service to the community, we have a variety of positions that help support by ensuring the necessary systems and supports are in place. This includes work in:

• Information Services – including the areas of Network & Systems, Support Technicians, and Database Administration
• Finance – including Payroll, Accounts Payable and Account Receivable professionals
• Records Information Management – including those working with digitization of files and disclosure of file information to service recipients and Legal professionals.
• Legal Services – including In-House Lawyers and Legal Administrative Assistants
• Human Resources – including Human Resources Generalists and Assistants
• Property – coordinating the property needs and projects of all offices
• Quality – working with statistical data and analyzing quality of service

If you are interested in one of our Operational roles, supporting those doing the front-line work in our communities, please send a resume and cover letter indicating the type of work you are interested in and your education and experience in that field.