Safer Spaces Lead Coordinator

2 weeks ago


Dartmouth, Canada YWCA Halifax Full time

**Department**: Violence to Resilience

**Reports to**:Safer Spaces Team Lead

**Job Classification**:Full-Time, Salaried, Term - Until March 31st 2025
**Location**:Dartmouth

Come work at the YWCA

YWCA Halifax is a progressive, multi-service, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of women, girls, Two Spirit and gender diverse people and their families at critical turning points in their lives. We work to transform lives by providing a continuum of services and programs that drive lasting positive change. We strive to change the underlying issues that are root causes of inequality, violence, poverty, and homelessness. Our program focus areas include: promoting health, wellness, and leadership; advancing economic and housing security; delivering quality, accessible, early learning, and childcare; and working to end gender-based violence in its many forms.

**Why work for the YWCA?**

YWCA is a great place to work. We are deliberate in our work but know that the long-term health of our team relies on our ability to support each other, laugh together, and find successes in unlikely places.

Staff at YWCA Halifax enjoy a supportive and dynamic team environment, a commitment to staff growth, a connection to the national and international YWCA movements, learning from colleagues in a multiservice agency, and a strong shared vision.

**Why YOU should apply**

**Job Overview**

**Essential Duties of the Role**:

- Advance the vision and mission of YWCA Halifax
- Program development, coordination, and implementation
- Uphold program budget and expenditures allocated by the Team Lead and/or Manager
- Conduct assessments, safety plans, and support plans
- Maintain, evaluate and keep updated a Safer Spaces Housing Program Handbook
- Leads housing operations, coordination, and facility support to develop and manage relationships, support housing operations and facilities support and work with YWCA staff to coordinate support for participants. This may include, but is not limited to:

- Ensuring care plans are developed and implemented
- Ensuring all documentation is up to operational standards
- Ensuring all housing needs (i.e. groceries) are met
- Point person for facility related support
- Operate and maintain security systems
- Community collaboration and partnership facilitation for participant support. This may include, but is not limited to:

- DCS
- DOJ
- Provincial & Municipal Policing
- Emergency supports
- Internal & external stakeholders
- Identify second stage and recovery-based housing placements across Nova Scotia and Canada
- Develop partnerships with existing housing providers (i.e. landlords, community housing organizations) to offer a variety of housing choices for clients
- Knowledge of the fundamentals of human behaviour including systems theory, family dynamics, group dynamics, and theories of behaviour change to develop and assist in:

- Case management.
- Individualized and group programming.
- Therapeutic interventions.
- Awareness of local community resources and agencies to assist in the continual care model and wrap around supports for participants.
- Completes admission process by documenting applicable information on standard forms and daily logs
- Documents on daily log each scheduled shift, including individual’s progress on care plan goals and behaviour and/or emotional issues
- Oversees and engages with individuals during each scheduled shift including:

- Intervening with individuals to help them self-regulate
- Intervening in interactions and/or confrontations between individuals
- Attending and actively participating where required with individual at schedules and/or unscheduled community outings, appointments, and meetings
- Ensuring care, safety, and security of all individuals, and
- Identifying and leading individual and group planned recreational and leisure activities to benefit individuals and develop relationships
- Leads and co-leads pre-approved/collaboratively designed psycho-educational individual programming (social and emotional learning).
- Role models, leads, and/or participates in role plays and provides support to assist individual development. This includes modeling healthy professional boundaries and collaboration of support.
- Records basic information in the individual’s file on the following: participation in programing offered at the centre and participation in activities
- Provides shift reports at the end of each shift to the next shift
- Completes all forms for each scheduled shift, i.e., case management notes, daily logs, and case conference notes.
- Ensures all forms for other scheduled shift are completed and report any discrepancies to the Safer Spaces Team Lead
- Completes discharge summary within seven (7) days from time the individual is discharged
- Utilizes standard care plan templates to develop individual care plans. May revise individual care plan where required
- Completes revisions to care plan where required based



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