Family Reunification Worker

5 days ago

Edmonton, Canada The Family Centre Full time

**Family Reunification Worker**

**Competition # YRW 082523**

**Why work with us**:
The Family Centre is looking for family support workers who enjoy and are good at building working relationships with families and other parties and who have excellent problem-solving, organizational, and collaboration skills. We are focused on Trauma-Informed Care for both our communities and staff teams, and provide services based on research and evidence-based practices. We encourage employees to bring their authentic self to work in our diverse and inclusive environment. The organization is committed to Indigenous ceremony and practice and welcomes knowledge of ceremony and lived experience. Our culture is focused on providing a safe and supportive workplace including paid training, excellent benefits, a wellness program, and much more.

**What you will be doing**:
As a Youth Reunification Worker, you will be working collaboratively as part of a team with other professionals to meet the needs of youth, their families, and communities that lead to successful outcomes. Within the Youth Reunification homes, you will help to foster a family-oriented environment for youth aged 13 - 18 years by working within a relational, developmental model and utilizing a harm reduction, attachment-based approach. Your role will be to support youth to re-connect to family and community in meaningful ways, creating long lasting, permanent relationships. You will also encourage and support the development of healthy living skills. In order to ensure a safe, stable and consistent environment for the youth, Youth Reunification homes are supported 24 hours a day by team members working 12-hour shifts (days and nights) on a consistent rotation.
- Teaching, modeling and supporting attachment based parenting
- Attending to the daily maintenance of the home
- Transport clients to appointments
- Are responsible for providing trauma informed care
- Teach and model appropriate parenting and household management skills
- Provide emotional support to families
- Strengthen relationships by empowering and nurturing the emotional bond between child/youth and their caregivers.
- Observes and documents family interactions, focusing on strengths, concerns and areas of growth
- Monitor the ongoing success or challenges inherent in the reunification experience, continue to identify emerging or enhanced strengths, and develop new strategies for additional assets
- Reinforce teaching from other professionals working with the family
- Maintaining a focus on general wellbeing, with a focus on trauma and attachment
- Assists the family in connecting to community resources
- Completing administrative responsibilities as required
- Attends staff meetings, service team meetings, trainings and supervision meetings as required
- Provide support & shift coverage in both the Family & Youth Reunification Homes, as required

**What you will bring to the role**:

- Diploma or Degree in Child & Youth Care, Early Childhood Development or Human Services Field and equivalent experience
- Minimum 2 year experience (preferably residential)
- Experience working with families from diverse cultures
- Proficient oral and written communication skills
- Requires knowledge, skills, and abilities to work with people affected by trauma
- Requires knowledge of and competence in delivering trauma informed care
- Strong interpersonal skills to help establish good working relationships with clients
- Ability to establish clear boundaries and be sensitive to the individual needs of each family
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to problem solve with a non-confrontational approach
- Reliable and flexible availability
- Excellent organizational skills and detail oriented
- Understands the meaning in teachings and values embedded in ceremony, circle processes, and relational accountability
- Understands the importance of allyship with equity-seeking communities

**Background Check Process & Requirement**:

- Police Information Check
- Vulnerable Sector (renewed every 3 years)
- Child Intervention Records Check (renewed every 3 years)
- Our Children Are Sacred Youth Suicide Prevention Training or ASIST Suicide Intervention Training (renewed every 3 years)
- Standard First Aid Level C CPR (renewed every 3 year)
- Awareness of Indigenous worldviews
- $2 million Vehicle Liability Insurance (renewed yearly)
- Reliable Vehicle, available for regular use and valid driver’s license
- 5-years Driver Abstract (renewed every 3 years)

**What you can expect**:

- Training_ - comprehensive onboarding/orientation process which includes service specific training, and agency wide core training.
- Feedback_ - a strong supervision model that provides regular formal and informal opportunities for feedback
- Performance coaching_ - formal and informal coaching regarding the development of personal and professional growth and development.

Reasonable accommodation **-** _The Family Centre will provide

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