Child Development Worker

Summary
The purpose is to provide support to families with children living with special needs and to help enhance the child’s life and facilitate health care interventions and developmental stimulation without denial, delay or disruption. Work with stakeholders to provide support, address gaps in service, avoid jurisdictional disputes and improve needed care.

Responsibilities
Under the direction of the Case Manager, the Child Development Worker will ensure the well-being of clients into the program and promotes their development.
Assist in their physical, social, emotional and daily life skills development based on the seven domains of development.
Help increase their independence and allows them to function appropriately in the community.
Provide support to families with children with complex needs. Services provided include respite care, crisis intervention, behaviour management, and life skills training, whether on a one-to-one basis or in a group environment.
Help plan, develop, implement and evaluate recreational, social and/or educational activities for children and their families.
Incorporates knowledge of behavioral sciences with teaching and learning principles when carrying out educational activities and uses strategies appropriate to the relevant target group.
Developing a strategy that ensures all children are fulfilling their potential and that action must be taken to improve the lives of these children and their families who need the help the most.
Provides formal presentations and education programs as well as informal teaching to communities, families, groups and individuals.
Emphasizes health promotion and illness and injury prevention and provides appropriate anticipatory guidance.
Provide client-specific training to client and family within scope of knowledge.
Encourage healthy lifestyle, diet, and physical activity.
Work in collaboration with the Northern and Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and Children’s Disability Services to ensure client needs are met while work is underway to create efficiencies, shared training, assessment methodology and tools.
Attends and participates in all Health functions and programs.
Record activities and findings in clients’ health record.
Report all incidents and accidents immediately to Case Manager.
Complete timesheets, mileage sheets, and other reports as per program requirements.
Recognizing the deficits within service systems and the need to protect children through early interventions, sharing of information, effective co-ordination of services and appropriate training of staff.