Kirra Noble Bass
Donkin,Canada
Summary
With over 20 years of experience in social services, I am a goal-oriented professional with a keen attention to detail. I have successfully worked in diverse settings and am eager to enhance my skills, learn, and grow within your organization.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Authority and Stakeholder Relations, Manager
Department of Families, Child and Youth Services Division, Strategic Initiatives and Program Support Branch
05.2023 - Current
- Oversee, develop and revise the Child and Family Services Agency Standards Manual to align with changes to the Child and Family Services Act and relevant regulations for the province of Manitoba including National Standards
- Develop and revise current policies for the child welfare system
- Write briefing notes for the Minister of Families, respond to public inquiries, child and family services agencies, Authorities and other stakeholder regarding funding and other inquiries
- Oversight of programs that provides services to youth who have and are existing the child welfare system
- Monitor financial reporting for the Supports for Young Adults Grant and update information for the department of families
- Support and partner with other government departments for new programming, policy, standards and legislations
- Treasury board submissions for funding for programs
- Participate in cross department meetings and work to achieve new program projects and information sharing
- Supervise staff, provide mentoring, coaching, task assignments and monitoring
- Complete performance development for staff
- Collaborate with other unit management to come up with creative ideas for information sharing and teaching for our teams
Service Specialist
Métis Child and Family Services
12.2017 - 01.2023
- Conduct investigations of misconduct as directed by the Chief Executive Officer, including supporting and investigating Human Resource related issues
- Lead inter-jurisdictional consultations and engagements for Interprovincial Placement Agreements, supporting sending and receiving agency management and staff
- Child Abuse Committee Specialist- Supported and consulted with other Authority representatives on issues related to child abuse investigations, monitoring and reporting committee information to the Director of child welfare
- Critical Incident Reporting- supporting agency staff in completing Critical incident reports, reviewing and ensuring compliance
- Internal Agency Reviews- Producing comprehensive reports on serious injury and the death of a child in care
- Reviewing agency compliance with relevant child welfare legislation, regulation and relevant policies, including investigating and interviewing staff and gathering autopsy reports for the completion of the review
- Report findings and recommendations to the Manitoba Advocate for children and youth
- Training and Education Coordinator- Provide training, research and develop training outlines and summaries for contracted organizations to train Authority, agency staff and caregivers
- Identify gaps in trainings, manage training budgets, monitoring of training attendance and completed training data for annual reports
- Facilitator -Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Trainer (ASIST)
- Provided ASIST to the Metis child and family services system
- Transfer of Guardianship- Review and complete documentation for transfers of guardianship of children when they became permanent wards to their Culturally Appropriate Authority
- Changes of Authority Requests- Ensuring that all requests from families to change their Authority of service meets regulation criteria
- Participate as a member on a variety of cross Authority Agreements and committees and developing policies and procedures
- Open communication within provincial limits, discuss and agree on changes with involved stakeholders to the standards and guidelines for the child welfare system
- Provide direction and support to agency staff in policy changes
- Interpreting and working within the scope of federal and provincial legislations, regulations and standards
Manager of Service and Training/Interim Manager of Quality Assurance
Métis Child and Family Services Authority
03.2021 - 02.2022
- Complete Internal Agency Reviews/investigations/interviews surrounding the death or critical incident of children and youth in care
- Review Internal Agency reviews submitted by agency Executive Management and provide recommendations in addition to the agency's findings
- Manage the training budget for all Métis Child and Family Services Staff
- Provide training data to the Executive Directors of each child welfare agency to show gaps in training areas
- Provide support and direction to the staff
- Oversee and assign duties to staff
- Assess staff's skills and assign work to staff for their program oversight
- Review and approve sick leave/vacation requests/training requests
- In collaboration with other key stakeholders, create new policies, directives and come up with creative ways to distribute information to agency and authority staff
- Provide regular supervision
Child Protection Case Manager
Southeast Child and Family Services
06.2014 - 12.2017
- Investigate allegations of child abuse and neglect
- Case management (conduct assessments, intake, service coordination, developing case plans and monitoring)
- Provide counselling and crisis intervention and applying the ASIST model where appropriate
- Coordinate with collaterals for developing family case planning
- Family, adult, child assessments that include addressing all life areas while focusing on strength
- Reunification and discharge planning
- Working and supporting families experiencing addictions, domestic violence and violent crimes
- Interview families, children and youth to assess, monitor and update safety and risk
- Collaborate with families, support networks and the First Nations communities and other collaterals to support families
- Working with families for reunifying children and youth
- Working within the child and family services standards, legislations and regulations
- Attend court proceedings for apprehensions, transfers of guardianship and orders for temporary and permanent care
- Work independently and within a team
- Connecting clients to appropriate services
- Clear concise written reports
- Collaborate with First Nations communities for the care and well-being of the children residing out of their community
- Work with schools, health professionals, RCMP and other collaterals
- Updating and maintaining records on the Child Services Information System
- Support youth transitioning out of care and develop case plans for after care service and financial supports
- Crisis intervention and applying the ASIST model
Education
Bachelor of Social Work -
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba06.2014
Bachelor of Arts -
University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Manitoba06.2008
Skills
- Active Listening
- Written Communication
- Decision Making
- Adaptability and reliability
- Advocacy
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365
- Organizational Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Team Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
- Critical Thinking and decision-making
- Team leadership
- Project planning and management
- Relationship building
- Staff training and development
- Verbal and written communication
- Documentation and reporting
- Staff management and task delegation
- Goal setting
- Performance management
- Training, coaching and mentoring
- Policy and procedure development and implementation
- Conflict resolution
- Partnership development
- Regulatory compliance
- Stakeholder management
- Active listening and problem solving
Certification
· Registered Social Worker with the Manitoba College of Social Workers
· Safe Home Study Certification May 2020
· Safe Home Study Supervisor Certification May 2020
· Certified Applied Suicide Intervention Facilitator (ASIST) Winnipeg, Manitoba March 2018 (former)
· Red Cross First Aid Certificate April 2023
Timeline
Authority and Stakeholder Relations, Manager
Department of Families, Child and Youth Services Division, Strategic Initiatives and Program Support Branch
05.2023 - Current
Manager of Service and Training/Interim Manager of Quality Assurance
Métis Child and Family Services Authority
03.2021 - 02.2022
Service Specialist
Métis Child and Family Services
12.2017 - 01.2023
Child Protection Case Manager
Southeast Child and Family Services
06.2014 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Social Work -
University of Manitoba
Bachelor of Arts -
University of Winnipeg
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