Housing Support Worker

5 months ago

Victoria, Canada Beacon Community Services Full time

Join Beacon Community Services as a casual Housing Support Worker, a vital position that positively impacts youth and young adult participants at our Meares Supportive Housing Facility and Out of the Rain Youth Shelter. This is a chance to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment that allows you to make both an immediate and long-term difference in participants' lives. If creating a safe space for participants while working with a great team that shares your values

**Days/Hours of Work**:Variable, Day Shifts 7:00 am - 7:00 pm Night Shifts 7:00 pm to 7:00 am (Include 1-hour unpaid break)

**Locations**: Meares Supportive Housing and Out of the Rain Overnight Shelter

**Union**:BCGEU Standalone collective agreement

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Reporting to the Team Lead, the Housing Support Worker uses their skills to create a safe, welcoming and calm environment for those who access and participate in the Meares Supportive Housing program or the Out of the Rain Shelter program. They support participants through critical situations and distribute harm-reduction supplies to keep participants safe and stabilize and continue their growth. The housing support worker is also key to maintaining the cleanliness of participants' rooms, and the facility in general.

**PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Support all daily operations of Meares St. Supportive Housing on Out of the Rain shelter
- Create and maintain professional relationships with the participants, community, and all stakeholders.
- Be a first response to crisis intervention as required
- Clean rooms with participants as needed, wearing appropriate PPE. This can include dealing with human wastes, blood, sharps, and other paraphernalia

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Minimum 1-year experience working with people experiencing homelessness and marginalized groups of individuals in a direct support role.
- Level 1 occupational First Aid
- up to date before starting
- Naloxone training

**SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:

- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to problem solve, and work independently as well as part of a team
- Ability to maintain a positive and professional attitude
- Ability to use sound judgement while working in demanding conditions and circumstances
- Ability to kneel to the ground to attend to overdoses and other medical emergencies.
- Physical ability to lift 30lbs, walk up and down stairs and be on feet for substantial time during shifts.
- Ability to work in building with substances and substance smoke

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**:
Beacon Community Services serves vulnerable populations including seniors, people with disabilities and children. Protecting these people and our teams on whom they rely is critical to us. Accordingly:

- All successful applicants must consent to a Solicitor General’s Criminal Record Check.
- All successful applicants are required to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status upon hire. Vaccination is a requirement in some of our facilities. Depending on future public health developments, Beacon may implement a vaccination requirement as a condition of ongoing employment for all our workplaces.

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