Community Service Worker

Community Service Work is a calling – you have to be passionate about the human service sector. People skills, organization, and communication skills are essential. If this sounds like you, this high demand career could prove to be both rewarding and personally fulfilling for you.

As a Community Service Worker, you can work on the frontline, helping clients manage their social and personal problems and running community services. Or, you can work ‘behind the scenes’ setting up and managing social assistance programs. Whatever your role is, the overarching goal is to build capacity, empower vulnerable communities, and help others work towards health and wellness.

The best way to see if Oxford College is the right fit for you is to come in and visit the school. You can tour our facilities, and meet with both students and instructors.

Become Qualified in Community Service Work

Oxford College’s Community Service Worker program gives you the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence needed to create, implement, and oversee a variety of social and community-based programs. Our program combines classroom learning and practical training to prepare you to better serve the community.

During the Community Service Worker program, you’ll learn how to:

• Become helping professionals in human services
• Utilize community resources
• Understand issues of diversity
• Work with high-risk populations
• Work with addiction and mental health issues
• Manage dynamics within families
• Build communication techniques and processes
• Develop non-violent crisis intervention skills
• Perform first aid and CPR
• Understand ethics and professionalism

Countless Career Opportunities

Graduates are employed by group homes, shelters, community mental health centres, alcohol and drug treatment facilities, social service agencies, and other community facilities.

Upon completion of the program, graduates may find employment as:

• Community Service Worker
• Residential Counsellor
• Rehabilitation Care Worker
• Addictions Support Worker
• Group Home Worker
• Community Health Worker