About This Role
This role involves supporting foster families through recruitment and ongoing assistance, as well as guiding young adults aged 16 and over through their transition to independent living after leaving youth protection services. The worker ensures that the environments in which beneficiaries live are suitable and safe.
Responsibilities
- Support the search, evaluation, re-evaluation, accreditation, and identification of foster families
- Regularly monitor and control each beneficiary's file and their foster family's file to ensure respect for rights and obligations in accordance with established rules, orders, and intervention plans
- Monitor and control the satisfaction of needs with resources and beneficiaries through home visits
- Categorize children to be placed
- Control and validate payment requests from foster families and other service providers to beneficiaries
- Ensure children are enrolled in Quebec drug insurance and renew their health insurance cards
- Implement information tools and training sessions for foster families
- Provide support and assistance in the daily lives of resources in case of personal difficulties, in the exercise of their role, or in case of complaints against them
- Standardize internal procedures to ensure the smooth functioning of the foster family component
- Welcome referral requests received by social services for the target clientele
- Analyze requests by validating eligibility for the program according to the Youth Qualification Program criteria
- Open and follow up on files by compiling information on young adults using standard forms
- Plan a first meeting to complete the questionnaire on the Autonomy Pathway Support Plan
- Ensure the compilation of information is compliant and adequate for signing liability waivers or access to information forms
- Ensure file updates and regular control of access to information for files
- Maintain standardized classification of each young adult's files
- Evaluate needs and establish intervention plans for young adults in collaboration with other internal and external stakeholders, including partner organizations
Requirements
- College diploma in specialized education, social work, psychoeducation, or a related field
- Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in intervention related to the job
- Relevant experience in social intervention
- Innu / French bilingualism recognized as a significant asset
Benefits
- Ten (10) sick days + Five (5) special leave days
- Two (2) weeks of paid leave at Christmas (including public holidays)
- Pension plan and group insurance
