Child and Youth Care Worker

2 weeks ago

Edmonton, Canada Catholic Social Services Full time

**_Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a full time, 40 hours per week, Child & Youth Care Worker in EDMONTON to join our team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community_**

**_This position has a weekly schedule of: Tuesday - Saturday (Day and evening shifts)_**

**Program Overview**:
**Agape Family Place East** provides semi-residential family-centered support to families and children/youth with behavioral and developmental disabilities. Clients receive in-home and community supports to encourage, empower, learn, and develop healthy family/life skills with the overall goal of returning the child/youth full time to the family home.

**Job Summary**:
As a Child and Youth Care Worker, you will be responsible for assessing the needs of the child/youth and parent/guardian, providing counselling and teaching basic life, community, and family living skills while ensuring basic needs are met (food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, safety). The Child and Youth Care Worker creates a safe, warm and positive environment where children/youth feel welcomed and loved. Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Managing a caseload of 1-2 families
- Developing and overseeing service plans for children, youth, and their parents
- Supervising and supporting children and youth in a semi-residential setting
- Assisting children and youth in overcoming barriers, and supporting them to develop positive and healthy relationships with their families and communities
- Supporting children and youth through life skills teaching and in-the-moment learning, with a hands-on approach
- Assisting children and youth in attending appointments and successfully participating in their educational placements and/or day programs
- Supporting parents and guardians to enhance their parenting skills and family capacity through weekly family support sessions
- Supporting families to access community resources and natural supports
- Submitting required program documentation with established time-frames
- Performing basic housekeeping and meal preparation duties
- Other duties as required

**Education & Qualifications**:

- A Diploma/Degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
- A minimum of two (2) years of experience counselling families, children/youth with behavioral and developmental disabilities is required.
- Experience with children and family programming, youth in care, residential care, and case management is a requirement of this position.
- Certification or training in Aboriginal Awareness, Abuse Awareness, Standard First Aid, Medication Administration, and Violence/Crisis Intervention is a definite asset.
- Proven ability to provide effective communication, collaboration, crisis intervention, and conflict management with clients
- Experience with or willingness to be trained on physical holds on the individuals that we serve.
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (NVCI) must be completed upon hire
- Demonstrated assessment, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
- Knowledge of community resources is an asset
- Demonstrated ability to act with professionalism, confidentiality, and diplomacy
- Proven case documentation and effective information reporting practices
- A reliable Vehicle, Valid Driver’s License, Vehicle Registration and Third Party Liability Insurance (amount of two million)
- Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months
- Summary of driving record with no more than six (6) demerit points current within one (1) year.

**What We Offer**:

- The salary for this position is **$22.63 - $ 25.46** per hour based on qualifications and experience. We offer flexibility and supportive working environment.
- Flexible benefit options when eligible.
- Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.

**About Catholic Social Services**:
You will be joining an established Agency that is _guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect._

With more than 50 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1800 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.

**Our values are at the core of everything we do**
- **Humility**: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
- **Compassion**: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
- **Respect**: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and f

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