Scd Navigator

**Supported Child Development Navigator (Temporary)**

Date of Posting: November 30, 2023

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week, some evenings and Saturdays. The term for this position is 12 months

with a possibility of extension

Reports to: VP, Child and Youth Services

Union: Grid 8-12 phase in, in accordance with the Provinical Collective Agreement between the

Health Sciences Association of BC and Health Sciences Professional Bargaining Association

(currently $39.14-$48.88/hour)

The Centre for Child Develoment is seeking a collaborative, service-oriented and innovative Early Years Navigator who

will be responsible for providing family navigation, within a family-centred care model.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in social work or a related field
- One year related experience working with children with developmental disabilities.
- Valid B.C. Driver’s licence and access to a personal vehicle for work purposes

Key Responsibilities include:
**1. Family and Child Services**
- Provides families with the appropriate tools, resources, support, and guidance to carry out complex tasks and,

when necessary within a partnership, assumes those tasks the family cannot handle with a continuing view to
strengthening the family’s capacity to do so wherever possible.
- Ensures access to, coordination of and delivery of services from different agencies. Pulling together all of the

elements of each child's life.
- Provides emotional support and encouragement, counseling parents and child, linking families with other

families for support/self-help groups, and by supporting the families' skills & abilities to coordinate & provide the
child's care.
- Sets up groups including choosing topics based on the needs of the children and families: creating and/or

modifying curricula and resources, advertising and facilitating group.

**2. Community Connections and Outreach**
- Communicates with community programs, educational and health agencies including government ministries,

physicians, school, preschools and childcare centres;
- Engages in outreach activities to encourage and support multicultural family participation
- Assess community resources and service gaps and provide recommendations to address these gaps

**3. Record-Keeping and Process Improvement**
- Maintains records such as workload statistics
- Provides program adaptation/improvement recommendations to supervisor to improve achievement of intended

outcomes.
Closing Date: When Filled

Please direct resumes to:
Dr. Brian Katz, Vice President, Child and Youth Services

The Centre for Child Development

9460 - 140th Street

Surrey BC, V3V 5Z4 Posting No. CYS 23-09

**THE CENTRE FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER