Child and Youth Settlement Counsellor

4 months ago


Edmonton, Canada CSS Full time

Catholic Social Services is currently recruiting for a full time (40hours/week), contract Child and Youth Settlement Counsellor located in our Edmonton region. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community

**Program Description**:
The Child and Youth Program, based at the Rotary Centre for New Canadians, helps refugee children and youth under the age of 24 settle and integrate into their new homes. The focus is on their transition to the school system, English language education, workplace training, and/or employment.

**Purpose of Position**:
The Child and Youth Settlement Counsellor focuses on the specific needs of the children and youth, proactively identifying barriers they may face in their transition and putting supports into place to ensure their successful settlement.

**Job Duties**:

- Schedule and conduct orientations with children and youth, one-to-one and/or in groups (maintain contact with primary Settlement Counsellor to ensure no scheduling conflicts);
- Book In-Home Support Workers for interpretation support as needed;
- Accompany clients to Stanley Milner Library and conduct orientation;
- Provide clients with an overview of computer functions emphasizing educational software;
- Conduct one in-person follow-up with every client one month after they leave the Reception House;
- Maintain the flow of documentation, including:

- Input and maintain information in ShareVision;
- Distribute client surveys;
- Complete and submit monthly and quarterly client reports to Team Leader;
- Complete and submit annual client reports to the Team Leader;
- Attend Program, Service and Agency meetings;
- Other duties as assigned by the Team Leader.

**Education and Qualifications**:

- Degree/diploma in Human Services or equivalent;
- Skill in a second language preferred;
- Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months

**What We Offer**:

- The salary for this position is $55,686.96 to $62,640 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.
We welcome and celebrate the diversity of our employees and volunteers who choose to work with our Agency in support of our mission, values, and principles. We employ and serve people of all faiths, or no faith, while respecting all backgrounds and experiences.
“As a Catholic social services agency, we are guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.”

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 freedom.

We embrace diversity and offer equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of origin, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, gender identity, and people of faith or no faith.



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