Clinical Social Worker
Listed on 2026-10-05
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Healthcare
Mental Health, Community Health, Human Services/ Social Work -
Social Work
Mental Health, Community Health, Human Services/ Social Work
Selection process number
2026-PEN-EA-ATL-200836
Salary
$86,348 to $106,671-(Plus Correctional Service Specific Duty Allowance of $2,140 per year. Allowance for Master's Degree in Social Work is $3,850. Commuting Assistance may apply. These allowances are subject to change, modification or revocation, with notice.)
Level
SW-SCW-02-Clinical Social Worker
Who can apply
Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad.
Work environment
The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) is a key player in public safety. We are responsible for the supervision and reintegration of offenders serving sentences of two years or more. On a typical day, we manage approximately 15,000 offenders placed within our 43 institutions and more than 8,500 offenders under supervision in the community.
We are building a strong, vibrant, and diverse team of professionals. CSC has been widely recognized as an international leader in correctional justice. We offer a variety of work locations with challenges and impacts like no other organization in Canada.
CSC supports professional growth. We offer career development opportunities, and we believe in continuous learning throughout your career.
Intent of the process
The intent of this process is to staff positions with bilingual imperative CCC/CCC, CBC/CBC OR BBB/BBB language requirements, in the Atlantic Region.
A pool of fully or partially qualified candidates may be established to staff similar positions with various tenures (such as indeterminate, term, casual) and with those linguistic requirements.
The placement of CSC employees with an affected status
* as a result of a current or future workforce adjustment exercise may be considered ahead of other candidates for a deployment or an appointment.
* Affected status as defined in the Workforce Adjustment Directive or appendix to the relevant collective agreement.
Occupational Certification:
Registration as a Social Worker with a provincial registering/licensing body
Willingness to travel frequently within a province or region.
Ability to work overtime on short notice or to work variable hours.
A valid driver's license.
Your application must clearly explain how you meet the following
EDUCATION
Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in social work.
EXPERIENCE
Experience in providing Social Work services to clients in mental health settings or correctional settings.
Experience working independently with minimal clinical supervision.
Experience working as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Applied / assessed at a later date
COMPETENCIES
Demonstrative integrity and respect
Thinking things through
Working effectively with others
Showing initiative and being action-oriented
Effective communication skills
Applied / assessed at a later date
Various language requirements - Bilingual - imperative CCC/CCC, CBC/CBC OR BBB/BBB.
May be applied / assessed at a later date
EDUCATION
Graduation with a Master's degree in Social Work from a recognized post-secondary institution with acceptable specialization in social work.
EXPERIENCE
Experience in the provision of Social Work services to culturally diverse populations.
Experience providing Social Work services in community mental health, medical, acute or forensic settings.
Experience providing crisis intervention services.
Experience establishing, developing and managing productive and cooperative partnerships with community-based services (i.e., community capacity building).
Experience providing Social Work services to vulnerable populations (e.g., cognitively impaired/brain-injured, geriatric, adults who are disadvantaged or in conflict with the law, Indigenous peoples, etc).
ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
To support employment equity objectives, diversity and inclusion and/or to meet business objectives, selection may be limited to a member of an equity-seeking group. Achieving a representative workforce has been identified as an Organizational Need and may be applied in this appointment process. You must complete the Employment Equity portion of the CREATE/MAINTAIN PROFILE identifying you as a person of an EE group in your application through GC jobs in order to be considered to meet the Organizational Need in this process.
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