D'Arcy McGee​/Symmes Jr. High School- Social Services Officer, Temporary replacement​/Agente ou Agent de service

We, the Western Quebec School Board, acknowledge that the lands upon which we live, learn, and work are the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe peoples. We thank them for sharing these lands and commit, as an organization, as educators and as individuals, to an ongoing relationship that recognizes and respects the lands, traditions, and culture of the Anishinaabe people.

The Western Quebec School Board is committed to building an educational community with the common purpose to realize the potential of all our students by cultivating a strong corps of support, professional, teaching, and administrative excellence. We, therefore, encourage applications from Indigenous people, as well as from other racialized people groups, persons living with a disability, people of religious faith, and gender minorities.

As an organization, we strive to hire individuals who reflect the communities we serve, and who embody and practice a love of life‑long learning, teamwork, and the highest professional ethics. Our efforts to achieve a diverse workforce that contributes to a culturally safe working environment include establishing proactive employment practices to address systemic barriers and removing obstacles to hiring and retaining qualified people.

The position of social service officer encompasses, in particular, responsibility for prevention, promotion, screening, support and intervention activities with students and groups of students experiencing or likely to experience emotional, family, social or school problems in order to foster the student's optimal development and restore his or her social functioning in interaction with his or her environment.

The social service officer contributes to the screening and identification of students experiencing problems, using an approach focussing on prevention and intervention; he or she plans and conducts interviews, makes observations, gathers pertinent information from school or external resources or parents and participates in analyzing data and in determining the nature of the problem.

He or she works with a multidisciplinary team to draw up, implement and review a student's individualized education plan, while taking into account the personal, family, school and social context to help him or her overcome his or her problems as well as to develop and maintain his or her motivation in school; he or she works with other team members to ensure concerted and coordinated interventions and assess the achievement of objectives.

He or she provides advice and support to teachers and to other school resources to better meet the student's needs and to provide necessary support and supervision to ensure the student's progress and success in school.

He or she conducts individual or group counseling sessions with students and ensures follow-up with parents; he or she may refer the student or his or her parents to resources appropriate to the situation and needs; he or she works with representatives of partner organizations.

He or she participates in the preparation, promotion and delivery of screening, awareness-building and prevention programs on topics related to the problems experienced by youths.

He or she advises management staff, prepares expertise, progress and end‑of‑process reports and formulates appropriate recommendations to support decision making.

He or she may be called upon to help defuse crisis or emergency situations and to recommend solutions.

He or she prepares and updates files according to the rules defined by the school board; he or she prepares progress notes or reports as well as end‑of‑process and follow‑up reports on his or her interventions.