Social Worker MB

Minoayawin Mobile Outreach Program
Hybrid - Thompson, Manitoba, with travel to surrounding First Nations

Salary range: $94,145 to $122,224 annually, plus comprehensive benefits and pension

The K.I.M. team invites applicants to apply for the following exciting opportunity!

Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin Inc. is a First Nations-led health transformation organization supporting northern Manitoba First Nations in achieving health sovereignty, improving access to care, addressing gaps in services, and creating racism-free, equitable and culturally safe health systems.

The Minoayawin Mobile Outreach Program (MMOP) provides a bundle of services to unhoused residents of Thompson and surrounding First Nations. The program offers trauma-informed, low- to no-barrier health care grounded in anti-Indigenous racism approaches that honour and give equal validity to Indigenous ways of knowing. MMOP promotes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing in ways that uphold the respect and dignity of unhoused community members living in Thompson, Manitoba, and surrounding First Nation communities.

Reporting to the Program Lead, Minoayawin Mobile Outreach Program, the Social Worker will be a key member of an integrated, multidisciplinary health and mental wellness services team. Working with primary care providers, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, counsellors, peer support workers, and other allied health providers, the Social Worker will support program participants in accessing health, mental wellness, social service, primary care, harm reduction, and cultural supports in Thompson and First Nations communities across northern Manitoba.

Daily work will include a combination of outreach, in-clinic, administrative, and preparation activities performed from a central location, mobile outreach settings, and the clinical van in and around Thompson. The role may involve occasional travel within northern communities and work in a northern climate, including winter temperatures, hot summers, and indoor and outdoor wellness van environments.

The successful candidate will help develop, implement, and evaluate wellness plans that support balance across physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual domains in an Indigenous-specific racism-free care environment.

Qualified First Nation candidates will be given preference.

• Connect with MMOP participants in an Indigenous-specific racism-free environment to provide assessment, service planning, treatment, and service coordination that supports healing and wellness for participants, their families, and communities.
• Conduct psycho-social assessments that include physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of overall wellness, and work with the participant, family, community, and multidisciplinary team to develop individualized wellness plans.
• Increase participant access to physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, financial, social, and harm reduction supports.
• Provide education and service coordination using anti-racist and anti-oppressive social work practice within a multidisciplinary team that may include Elders, Knowledge Keepers, nurse practitioners, peer support workers, physicians, counsellors, and others.
• Support the provision of harm reduction services, primary care, health promotion, and prevention services for MMOP participants, their families, and communities.
• Practice in compliance with applicable provincial and federal health privacy legislation, the Child and Family Services Act of Manitoba, the Mental Health Act of Manitoba, and any other legislative mandates that may guide services provided to MMOP participants, families, and communities.

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work.
• Current registration and membership in good standing with the Manitoba College of Social Workers.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive assessments that may include mental wellness status, substance use history, education and employment, social development and functioning, family structure and relationships, activities of daily living, and physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness.
• Experience providing clinical social work services to individuals, groups, and families in community-based settings or in settings serving First Nations community members and communities facing multiple barriers to health and wellness equity.
• Knowledge and experience supporting First Nations populations impacted by intergenerational trauma,…