Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a part-time, 32 hours per week, Child & Youth Care Worker in EDMONTON to join our St Christopher House. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community.
This position has a weekly schedule of: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 2 Mornings from 7am - 3pm and 2 Evenings from 2pm - 10pm
Program Overview:
St. Christopher House provides continual residential support to children/youth with developmental disabilities and/or behavioral and mental health challenges. Clients receive support with community integration, basic life skills, and behavior intervention/regulation strategies in a shared group living arrangement.
Job Summary:
As a Child and Youth Care Worker, you will be responsible for assessing the needs of the child/youth, provide counselling, teach basic life, community, and group living skills while ensuring basic needs are met (food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, safety). The Child and Youth Care Worker creates a safe, warm and positive environment where children/youth feel welcomed and loved. Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Managing a caseload of 1-2 children or youth
Developing and overseeing service plans for children or youth
Supervising and supporting children and youth in a group living environment
Assisting children and youth in overcoming barriers, and supporting them to develop positive and healthy relationships with their communities and natural supports
Supporting children and youth through life skills teaching and in-the-moment learning, with a hands-on approach
Assisting children and youth in attending appointments and successfully participating in their educational placements and/or day programs
Working within a Service team that could include: parents/legal guardians (Child Intervention Practitioner), educators, medical and/or mental health professionals
Submitting required program documentation within established time-frames
Performing basic housekeeping and meal preparation duties
Other duties as required
What This Job Requires:
A Diploma/Degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
A minimum of two (2) years of experience counselling families, children/youth with behavioral and developmental disabilities is required.
Certification or training in Aboriginal Awareness, Abuse Awareness, Standard First Aid, Medication Administration, and Violence/Crisis Intervention is a definite asset.
The ideal candidate will have an organized and compassionate approach to the work, strong teamwork skills, a commitment to developing positive supporting relationships, and experience working with external stakeholders. Other qualifications include:
Proven ability to provide effective communication, collaboration, crisis intervention, and conflict management with clients
Experience with or willingness to be trained on physical holds on the individuals that we serve (Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (NVCI) must be completed upon hire)
Demonstrated assessment, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
Knowledge of community resources is an asset
Intermediate competency with Microsoft Office and other Agency computer applications
Demonstrated ability to act with professionalism, confidentiality, and diplomacy
Proven case documentation and effective information reporting practices
Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months
2 Years of Driving experience will be an asset
You can apply online for Police Information Check including Vulnerable Sector Search and Intervention Record Check.
For Police Information Check, including Vulnerable Sector Search, please visit the City of Edmonton's police service website.
For Intervention Record Check, please visit the informalberta.ca
Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, Intervention Record Check and/ or summary of driving records are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.
What We Offer:
The salary for this position is $24.21 - $27.24 per hour based on qualifications and experience. We offer flexibility and supportive working environment.
Flexible benefit options when eligible.
Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.
About Catholic Social Services:
You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.
With more than 60 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1900 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.
Our values are at the core of everything we do!
Humility: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
Compassion: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
Respect: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.
We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
We embrace diversity and offer equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of origin, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, gender identity, and people of faith or no faith.
