Social Worker jobs

Reference number
PEN26J-127595-000002

Selection process number
2026-PEN-EA-ATL-200836

Location
Dorchester (New Brunswick), Renous (New Brunswick), Saint John (New Brunswick), Springhill (Nova Scotia)

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 . These allowances are subject to change, modification or revocation, with notice.)

Level
SW-SCW-02 - Clinical Social Worker

Who can
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.

Important messages
When you to this selection process, you are not ing for a specific job, but to an inventory for future vacancies. As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.
Note that you do not need to resubmit your application if you have already applied for the selection process: 2026-PEN-EA-ATL-200015. If you participate in to our various SW-SCW-02 selection processes posted in different regions, note that you may be assessed once and your assessment results may as part of all these selection processes. The waiting period for reassessment is 180 calendar days from your last assessment. Reference checks may be sought.
An Interview may be conducted.
You must provide proof of education credentials.
Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.
Candidates must meet all essential qualifications to be appointed to a position. This will be determined through the use of various evaluation tools.
Candidates may be required to meet the asset qualifications or the organizational needs, depending on the requirements of the specific position being staffed.
Indeterminate employees at the same group and level, or equivalent may be considered for deployment, assignment/secondment prior to the assessment of other applicants. An assignment, secondment, or acting appointment requires approval of your supervisor. HOW TO :
You will be required to answer screening questions to demonstrate how you meet the Essential & Asset Qualifications (Education and all Experience).
When answering the screening questions, it is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current or past responsibilities. You must provide concrete examples of tasks you have accomplished with significant details to explain the WHAT, WHEN, WHERE and HOW you acquired each qualification.

Reliability Status security clearance

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.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Indigenous person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

Preference will be given to veterans first, followed by Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of jobs located in Nunavut or Yukon. For positions located in Nunavut, qualified Inuit enrolled under the Nunavut Agreement will be appointed first. For positions located in Yukon, qualified Yukon First Nations will be appointed first, followed by qualified Indigenous persons.

Learn more about preference to veterans.