Indigenous Registered Social Worker - Xexe Pahlatsis’lelum; Sacred Cradle House

Are you an experienced Registered Social Worker who is passionate about supporting Indigenous mothers, infants, and families through culturally grounded, trauma-informed care? The Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness Society (ACEH) is seeking an Indigenous Registered Social Worker to join the team at Xexe Pahlatsis’lelum (Sacred Cradle House), an Indigenous-led perinatal recovery home dedicated to keeping Indigenous families together and supporting healing through culture, community, and compassion.

As the Registered Social Worker, you will serve as the clinical case management lead for Sacred Cradle House, working alongside Family Members, Elders, healthcare providers, and child welfare partners to provide comprehensive assessments, individualized service planning, advocacy, and ongoing support. As the primary clinical resource for staff navigating complex family, safety, and child welfare situations, you will help ensure Indigenous women and their children receive culturally safe, family-centred services while navigating housing, wellness, parenting, and child welfare systems.

Working from a strengths-based, rights-based, and family-preservation approach, you will advocate to keep mothers and children together wherever it is safe to do so while supporting long-term healing, stability, and self-determination.

We are a non-profit, registered charity and culturally supportive housing provider dedicated to supporting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our work is Indigenous-led and governed and centers the voices of our Indigenous Street Community, whom we refer to as our Family Members.

Through building partnerships locally and across Vancouver Island, we identify and address systemic barriers, share knowledge and resources, and provide Indigenized harm reduction, cultural support services, housing, and community-based wellness programming.

Our way is to care for all our people, from the youngest to the oldest. We are all one. Some of our people living away from home are suffering, isolated and homeless. We stand together to end homelessness.

ACEH exists to serve Indigenous women and families. Preference will be given to qualified Indigenous applicants and to women, consistent with ACEH’s mandate and the special program provisions of the BC Human Rights Code (s. 42).

Applications will be received until positions are filled. Only qualified candidates will be shortlisted and interviewed.

Position Type: Full-Time (36 hours per week)

Location: Victoria, BC. Travel to other ACEH locations may be required.

Hours of Work:

• 36 hours per week over a nine-day fortnight
• Every second Friday off
• Thursday shift from 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• Evening and occasional weekend phone consultation for case-related matters as required.

• $41.00 – $45.56 per hour ($76,752 – $85,288 annually)
• Employer-matched RRSP (up to 5%)
• Extended health and dental benefits
• 3 weeks (15 days) paid vacation annually (6% accrual, pro-rated for part-time)
• 5 paid sick days per year
• Additional sick leave accrued at 1 day per month
• Every second Friday off

• Complete comprehensive biopsychosocial, parenting, safety, and housing assessments with Family Members.
• Develop, implement, and regularly review individualized service plans using strengths-based, trauma-informed, and culturally grounded approaches.
• Hold and manage the active clinical caseload for Sacred Cradle House.
• Provide ongoing advocacy, follow-up, and coordinated support throughout each Family Member's stay.
• Lead discharge and transition planning, including long-term housing stabilization goals, in collaboration with the Transitions Coordinator.

• Serve as the primary liaison with MCFD, Indigenous Child and Family Service Agencies, and Delegated Aboriginal Agencies.
• Advocate for family preservation, reunification, and culturally safe child welfare practices.
• Attend case conferences, mediation sessions, family meetings, and court proceedings as required.
• Support Family Members in understanding and exercising their legal rights throughout child…