Community Support Worker (2025-421-CC) chez WoodGreen Community Services
WoodGreen Community Services · Toronto, Canada · Onsite
- Professional
- Bureau à Toronto
| Competition: (2025-421-CC) | Community Support Worker (2025-421-CC) |
| Employment Type: | Permanent Full Time, Bargaining Unit (1 Vacancy) |
| Work Hours: | 35 hours/week Mon-Fri 9am-5pm |
| Work Setting: Salary: | Exclusively Onsite at 650 Queen St E, Toronto, Ontario External Rate: $59,282.34 Internal Rate: $60,492.18 |
| Application Deadline: | September 30, 2025, by 11:59 pm |
The Supportive Housing Department provides a variety of housing, community and supports
based services to adults & seniors who have struggled with homelessness, mental health
and/or addiction related challenges.
This Project/Program will aim to engage and support vulnerable tenants with whom are at risk
of destabilization due to re-development and/or other unexpected events resulting in the loss
of their housing.
What You Will Do
- Perform initial and ongoing needs assessment from a strengths-based client support approach
- Provide case management services including care planning, assessments, personal goal setting, short- and long-term planning, supportive counselling, follow up supports, crisis intervention, care and service coordination, case conferencing and referrals as needed
- Collaborate with Housing & Financial Empowerment staff to support tenants/clients with strategies to maintain housing, tend to financial structuring of income sources and employment as well as transition planning to support move ins and outs as required.
- Provide tenant/client support to empower the individual and increase their independence.
- Assist tenant/client to set objectives and plan activities to achieve goals.
- Assist tenant/client to develop necessary skills to live in the community (e.g. cooking, housekeeping, budgeting, shopping, leisure planning, etc.).
- Identify deterioration in mental status or in independent functioning of client and take appropriate action.
- Provide crisis prevention, management, and intervention support including conflict mediation, interpersonal supports, and social resourcing.
- Establish and maintain an ongoing flexible and supportive relationship with clients.
- Introduce new tenants to other tenants and staff and to the various committees and activities they can participate in.
- Promote participation in on site community development programming and tenant engagement initiatives.
- Assist tenant/client to develop a supportive network.
- Keep documentation and client files current and updated and collect data as required.
- Document any significant problems, events, changes to services, special needs, etc.
- Apply ethical standards related to the provision of community support.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work (BSW) or related degree.
- Registered Social Worker (RSW) in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW) and/or Member in good standing with a Professional College in Ontario strongly preferred
- Minimum three (3) years of community experience in mental health, addictions, housing 4 and/or social work
- Related experience in case management, supportive counselling, conflict/crisis mediation and client engagement.
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