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Family Preservation Team Lead – “Interview in progress”
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Social Development Manager, the Family Preservation worker Team Lead is responsible for providing support, and supervision Child & Family Crisis Worker, Prevention Intervention Worker, Family preservation worker and Family Preservation Youth worker. The role will assume supervision of the Child, Family, and Youth and program services critical to assisting band members addressing various social, mental, and emotional struggles, including but not limited to, addictions, children and family matters, and family violence. Maintaining strong and positive working relationships with both internal and external resources is vital to delivering an effective service. The role will be responsible to provide support in the preparation of reports and providing leadership in identifying service gaps and seeking working solutions for the social development team. The Lead is required to participate in rotating on-call service and will carry an active family preservation caseload. It is essential that the Lead works co-operatively and collaboratively with the Social Development Manager and Outside partnerships such as MCFD, FN Policing, Interior Health as per the direction of the Social Development Manager. The goal of the program is to use a culturally relevant and prevention first approach to immediately reduce the number of Aboriginal children entering care. Click here to view the full posting