Youth Worker
2 months ago
**Youth Worker**
**Trees Alternate School
- Surrey**
**Regular Full Time (35 hours/week)**
**Grid 13 ($29.96 - $31.24/hour)**
**Closing Date**: August 25, 2023, at 4:30pm
- Supervisor: Tracey Corbett, Team Lead Trees Alternate School
**Opportunity**
- The Trees program Youth Worker’s primary focus is providing one-to-one support to students to ensure a successful school experience. The core role is to support students to excel in the school setting. This may include participating in goal planning and providing teachers with information to develop the EIP. The worker will have a sound understanding of both normal and delayed or problematic development behaviors and barriers, impulsivity, attachment issues, the effects of trauma, and learning disabilities such as FASD and ADHD. Specific skills such as program development, sports, music, arts and crafts, and recreation planning are an asset in engaging youth in meaningful activities.
The Trees Youth Worker will possess a strong ability to provide assessments and behavior management in addition, teamwork, collaboration, and creativity are key desired assets in this role. The person selected for this role will be part of a multidisciplinary team within the Newton Youth Hub and will be able to work a flexible schedule that may include evenings and weekends.
**Responsibilities**
- Provide culturally safe and diverse, in-class support services to vulnerable youth in the Surrey area.
- Establish relationships with youth to ensure they are supported to make connections to longer term community resources, specifically those that address their needs relating to education and life skills.
- Engage with and encourage youth to participate in pro-social activities by supporting daily school-based outings in the community.
- Participate in outdoor or gym activities such as camping, swimming, sports, basketball etc....
- Participate in team meetings and team building. Share ideas and understanding with team members and work collaboratively.
- Administrative paperwork, daily case notes and statistical record keeping/ reporting.
- Staff will be required to provide one-to-one outreach to students experiencing barriers to class attendance. This could mean picking up students from home and bringing them to school. Staff will be encouraged to obtain their class 4 driver’s license.
- Provide outreach support by taking youth to appointments in the community such as medical, legal, counselling, grocery shopping etc.
- Support teaching staff to develop creative curriculum opportunities that mirror real life.
**Qualifications**
B.A. in a related field plus one-year related experience working in a high school OR Child and Youth Care Diploma plus three years’ experience working with multi-barriered or vulnerable youth.
**Additional Assets**
- Criminal record check including the vulnerable sector.
- Standard first-aid certificate and CPR
- Valid Class 4 BC driver’s license, or willingness to upgrade to a Class 4 license.
- Business insurance use and use of own vehicle
- Driver’s abstract must be submitted.
**Who We Are**
- Pacific Community Resources Society (PCRS) is a large not-for-profit agency that serves some of the most vulnerable people in our communities from Vancouver to Hope. We work with youth and vulnerable adults in the areas of education, employment, housing, substance use and mental health, and youth and family support services. We are CARF Accredited and a Certified Living Wage Employer.
**Our Vision** - Everyone thriving in strong, healthy communities
**Our Mission** - To inspire healthy and inclusive communities through leadership and collaboration.
**Our Values** - Advocacy, Diversity and Inclusion, Empowerment, Service Excellence, Stewardship, Well-being
- We are grateful to operate on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷm əθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Qw'?ntl'en (Kwantlen), se’mya’me (Semiahmoo), sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen), q̓ic̓əy (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Coquitlam), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), máthxwi (Matsqui) and Stó:lō Nations.
**We Offer**
- Equitable Base Pay
- Generous paid vacation time, personal time, sick time; additional paid time off for life events
- Additional paid holidays, ex. Easter Monday, Boxing Day *
- Extended health, prescription, dental & vision care plan, with 100% Employer-Paid Premiums*
- Disability and Life Insurance Coverage *
- Employee & Family Assistance Program including preventative health & counselling *
- Membership in the Municipal Pension Plan with generous employer contributions *
- Flexible schedules and earned time off program *
- Full-day agency orientation and extensive training, with regular ongoing performance evaluations
- In-house digital and classroom learning opportunities; staff funding for professional development *
- Opportunities to use your voice & participate in committees on po
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