Youth Worker

7 months ago

Vancouver, Canada Coast Foundation Society 1974 Full time

**Typical Duties**:

- Implementing PSR programming and activities that provide opportunities for recreation, leisure, and life skill, development, such as cooking, cleaning and other relevant skills.
- Completes daily housekeeping duties and tasks such as cooking dinner, daily cleaning requirements, and supporting youth to complete their assigned daily chores.
- Supports youth residents to identify strengths and needs, and assists youth to find and gain access to resources relevant to their individualized goals.
- Models life skills and strategies to maintain a healthy lifestyle while providing opportunities for youth to develop their own life skills, self-care practices, routines for recovery-maintenance, coping strategies, etc.
- Communicates effectively and models appropriate and respectful conflict resolution skills that provides opportunities to collaboratively build rapport with clients.
- Provides the support, information, & tools that allow residents to develop self-esteem and decision-making skills through role modelling and other techniques.
- Assists clients to identify strengths, needs and goals, and gain access to formal or informal community supports related to leisure, vocational, education, etc. that provide opportunities for successful community integration.
- Observes and records the physical and mental health status of clients and take necessary actions.
- Advocates for and with the clients to encourage them to maintain their rights and dignity.
- Works with clients, peers, supervisors, other agencies and relatives in a cooperative and professional manner.
- Develops individual and group programming that engages youth and provides opportunities to broaden skills, develop meaningful connections and improve overall quality of life.
- Ensures all requirements of the QWIK process and administrative tasks are completed accurately and within the allocated timeframes.
- Uses formal and informal assessment practices such as interviews to develop individualized care plans, which detail client’s areas of need and/or interests.
- Distributes medications safely in accordance with medication policies and procedures.
- Ensures the implementation of the program’s maintenance, housekeeping and cooking tasks.
- Reports and addresses health and safety issues / concerns as they arise.
- Performs administrative tasks, as assigned.
- Maintains records as required.
- Fulfills any other functions/duties that may develop in conjunction with the above.
- May be asked to direct students and volunteers.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.

**Required Qualifications**
- Diploma in Child & Youth Care, Community Social Service Work, _or_ an equivalent combination of education, training and experience or other qualifications determined to be reasonable and relevant to the level of work
- Recent, related experience of two years
- Ability to provide/obtain the following upon hire:

- Certificates in First Aid + CPR, WHMIS and FoodSafe
- Ministry of Justice Criminal Record Clearance
- Non-violent Crisis Intervention training, or equivalent
- TB Clearance
- Immunization Records Including Covid-19 Vaccination Status
- BCDL - Class 5, & copy of Drivers Abstract

**Knowledge and Abilities**
- Knowledge of housing issues, local community resources, and barriers that youth may face while navigating challenging with mental health and/or substance use.
- Firm understanding of harm reduction approaches, abstinence-based models, and implementation in community settings.
- Demonstrated ability to work with marginalized youth who experience barriers to accessing services and supports, and may be exiting homelessness, have history of significant substance use and/or trauma.
- Demonstrated ability working with individuals in early substance use recovery with complex mental illness and who may have cognitive impairments, disabilities or challenges.
- Understanding of and ability to implement trauma informed approaches
- Knowledge of psychosocial rehabilitation practices
- Knowledge of program policy and procedures
- Knowledge and proficiency in relevant software
- Ability to work with youth living with mental illness.
- A good understanding of the issues related to meeting basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter.
- Ability to work effectively independently and in cooperation with others.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
- Ability to observe and recognize changes in clients.
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate groups.
- Some knowledge of the criminal justice system

**About Coast**
Coast Mental Health (Coast) is one of the largest mental health non-profit societies in Canada, and operates a large array of innovative housing and community based rehabilitation services for people with a mental illness living in and around Vancouver. Coast operates in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia providing approximately 1000 people with

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