Child & Family Prevention Worker
Department: Child & Family Services
Reports To: Director of Child & Family Services
Employment Type: Full-Time (40 hours per week)
Location: ?Esdilagh First Nation Band Office, with travel throughout the community and surrounding service areas as required.
About Us
?Esdilagh First Nation is committed to protecting, supporting, and strengthening our children, youth, and families through culturally grounded, community-driven services. We recognize the importance of keeping families together, promoting healing, and ensuring our members have access to quality supports that reflect our values, traditions, and inherent rights.
We are seeking a compassionate, experienced, and dedicated Child & Family Prevention Worker to support children, youth, adults, and families through prevention-focused services with a strong emphasis on mental health, addictions, family wellness, advocacy, and early intervention.
Position Summary
Reporting to the Director of Child & Family Services, the Child & Family Prevention Worker provides direct support and advocacy to children, youth, adults, and families while promoting family wellness, preventing family breakdown, and strengthening protective factors within the community.
This position works closely with families experiencing complex social, emotional, mental health, addictions, and parenting challenges. The Prevention Worker collaborates with internal departments, provincial and federal agencies, healthcare providers, schools, and Indigenous organizations to ensure community members receive coordinated, culturally safe, trauma-informed, and strengths-based services.
Key Responsibilities :
Family Prevention & Support
- Provide prevention-focused services that strengthen families and promote child safety and well-being.
- Conduct comprehensive assessments to identify family strengths, needs, and risk factors.
- Develop individualized family wellness and prevention plans in collaboration with clients.
- Support families experiencing parenting challenges, family conflict, housing instability, or other barriers impacting family wellness.
- Promote family preservation and early intervention strategies that help keep children safely connected to their families whenever possible.
- Advocate for children, youth, and families to ensure equitable access to services and supports.
Mental Health & Addictions
- Provide supportive counselling, advocacy, crisis intervention, and case management.
- Support individuals experiencing mental health concerns, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, substance use, and other wellness challenges.
- Coordinate referrals to treatment centres, mental health professionals, counsellors, detox services, and specialized community resources.
- Support clients before, during, and following treatment.
- Promote trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and harm reduction approaches.
Community Wellness
- Develop and facilitate workshops and educational programming related to parenting, healthy relationships, child development, mental wellness, addictions awareness, suicide prevention, grief, resilience, and life skills.
- Promote culturally grounded healing by working alongside Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and traditional healing practitioners.
- Assist with community events, outreach initiatives, and family wellness activities.
- Build trusting relationships with children, youth, parents, caregivers, and community members.
Collaboration & Advocacy
- Work collaboratively with the Director of Child & Family Services, Health Centre staff, schools, RCMP, healthcare providers, and external agencies.
- Participate in multidisciplinary case planning meetings.
- Advocate for community members navigating child welfare, healthcare, education, justice, and other service systems.
- Develop positive partnerships that improve supports available to ?Esdilagh families.
Administration
- Maintain accurate, confidential client records, assessments, and case notes.
- Prepare reports required by funding agreements and organizational policies.
- Assist with program planning, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement.
- Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, privacy requirements, and organizational policies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counselling, Human Services, Child & Youth Care, or a related field.
- Registration with the applicable professional regulatory body is considered an asset.
- Minimum three (3) years of experience working in child and family services, family support, mental health, addictions, or community wellness.
- Demonstrated experience supporting individuals and families experiencing mental health and substance use challenges.
- Strong understanding of trauma-informed practice, crisis intervention, family-centered care, and Indigenous approaches to healing.
- Knowledge of Indigenous child and family services legislation and prevention-focused service delivery is considered a strong asset.
- Experience working with First Nations communities is highly preferred.
- Excellent communication, conflict resolution, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound professional judgment.
- Valid Class 5 Driver's Licence.
- Satisfactory Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Screening.
Preferred Qualifications:
Preference will be given to candidates with training or certification in one or more of the following:
- Mental Health First Aid
- ASIST or SafeTALK
- Trauma-Informed Practice
- Indigenous Cultural Safety
- Motivational Interviewing
- Crisis Intervention
- Substance Use and Addictions Counselling
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Why Join Us
- Make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, youth, and families.
- Help strengthen families through prevention, healing, and early intervention.
- Work within a collaborative and supportive Child & Family Services team.
- Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
Other Duties
Perform other duties as assigned that are consistent with the responsibilities and scope of the position.
Application Information
Please submit your resume, cover letter indicating the position you are applying for, and three professional references to:
?Esdilagh First Nation
Email: [email protected]
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Preference will be given to qualified applicants of Indigenous ancestry in accordance with Section 16(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $40.00-$45.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
