Pt Housing Support Worker

1 month ago

Kitchener, Canada Indwell Full time

Come Build Hope and Homes with Us
Housing Support Worker
- Part Time
Kitchener, ON- St. Mark's Place
**Compensation**: $20.86-$25.05
**Position Description**: Reporting to the Program Supervisor, as the Housing Support Worker, you will work alongside residents who have experienced mental health concerns and/or substance use to maintain housing stability. Supporting individuals in developing and working through their personal service plans striving towards health, wellness and belonging. Promoting and demonstrating the vision, mission and values of Indwell within the workplace and community. Also, working within the context of a collaborative interdisciplinary team reflecting the principles of person-centered and evidence-based care by assisting with coordinating and delivering mental health and addiction services to residents. This is program serves individuals who have experienced long term housing instability and/or long stay hospitalizations. This position will require a high level of resilience and willingness to work in close proximity to challenging situations.
What matters to you? Being in a work culture that operates out of their core values of DIGNITY, LOVE and HOPE- embracing diversity, promoting equality and inclusion. A place that sees you as a LEADER contributing your individuality to champion the vision of creating communities that TRANSFORM lives.
**About Indwell**: Founded in 1974, our Christian charity continues to thrive and grow exponentially as we serve people impacted by poverty and homelessness through our vision of HOPE and HOMES for All. We are the fastest growing developer in Ontario creating affordable high quality efficient housing communities coupled with supportive programs to over 1200 tenants to meet their needs of health, wellness, and belonging. To learn more, go to: indwell.ca/our-model
**What our Tenants say**:
"The welcoming you get when you walk through the doors, from tenants to staff. They're always checking on you." "Living at Indwell has been teaching me to do things and taught me how to get along with better people, be better people and trust people and let people do and say what they want." "An affordable rent. It’s huge, it’s huge. It means I can eat properly. And that affects my physical and mental health, so that is huge."
**Hours of Work**: Part-time, up to 20 hours per week. The shifts can be 1pm-9pm during the week and 7:30am-3:30pm/1pm-9pm on the weekends. This can include some public holidays.
WHAT YOU WILL DOING
**Direct Support to Residents**:

- Skilled in building therapeutic relationships with residents with a recovery-oriented, trauma-informed approach, promoting hope and trust.
- Comfort and familiarity with a harm reduction approach.
- Develop, contribute to, and carry out individual resident service plans, including any relevant assessment tools.
- Work individually with residents to identify and achieve goals as it relates to their individual support needs and recovery.
- Connect residents with supportive community resources, including both clinical and informal supports, facilitating case coordination and case management.
- Strong familiarity with local resources.
- Confident in utilizing crisis management and intervention skills.
- Respond to resident complaints/concerns with care, compassion, and efficiency.
- Reinforcing residents’ life skills, including spiritual, social, and coping skills.
- Assist with intake and orientation of new residents.
- Develop and facilitate relevant group programming.
- Complete required documentation in a thorough and timely manner with a focus on maintaining and protecting tenant health records.

**Leadership**:

- Consistently show initiative and engage in creative problem solving.
- Experience leading and/or guiding internal teams to accomplish shared goals.
- Ability to take the lead on internal program development and projects.
- Established relationships with community partners within the local social service sector
- Reinforce a positive workplace culture and tone through your skilled verbal and written communication.
- Keep interdisciplinary team informed of community opportunities and emerging trends related to best practices in housing stability.
- Play a coordinating role on the team around duties such as apartment checks and pest management.
- Comfort and familiarity with landlord responsibilities such as pest management, rent collection, and housing stability processes.

**Support, Direction, and Commitment to Interdisciplinary Team**:

- Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide direct and indirect support to residents, encouraging housing stability. These supports may include medication administration, apartment checks and unit maintenance teaching, oversight of pest management protocols, community events, meal delivery, and other supports as necessary.
- Support unit vacancies and turnover.
- Support and collaborate with Volunteer Coordinator to integrate program volunteers into

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