Female Addiction Youth Support Worker

3 months ago

Surrey, Canada Anika Youth Services Full time

At Anika Youth Services, **we support at-risk youth** in the Surrey and Langley area who are in need of wrap around services, including long-term housing, outreach services, and life skills programming. AYS creates individualized plans that address the youth’s mental health, social, behavioural, and emotional needs

We serve a demographic of female youth with multiple barriers, vulnerabilities, and who have experienced trauma, therefore; we only hire female employees as per our safety guidelines.

We are a team that works together from every level of the agency to support our youth.

Attachment theory, trauma informed practice, crisis management, and life skills will be the foundations of your work with the youth. This position allows you to have extensive front line exposure and positively impact the lives of our most vulnerable youth.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum 2 year diploma in Addictions Support, child and youth care, psychology, criminology, or related social services field
- Two (2) years’ recent, related professional experience working with substance use and/ or harm reduction.
- Be able to work shifts **Afternoon 3pm-11pm or Awake Overnight 11pm-7am**
- Knowledge of community, social and health resources
- Understanding of mental health, substance misuse, attachment and trauma informed practice
- Knowledge of problems encountered by youth with substance misuse issues ;
- Knowledge of mental health issues and treatment
- Understanding of the barriers that prevent youth from connecting with services
- **Class 5 License and reliable vehicle**_** Mandatory**_
- Standard First-Aid Level 1 with CPR
- Clear criminal record

**Job skills and abilities**:

- Establish and maintain rapport with clients
- Observe and recognize changes behaviour
- Deal effectively with conflict situations, manage aggressive behavior, and use MANDT management techniques
- Work both independently and in cooperation with others
- Communicate effectively
- Organize, prioritize and meet deadlines
- Establish/maintain satisfactory working relationships
- Maintain confidentiality
- Work with a culturally diverse population
- Physically carry out the duties of the position
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to perform basic household duties, such as maintaining a budget, grocery shops, meal preparation, cleaning and ability to teach basic life skills

Work Remotely
- No

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $26.74 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Night shift
- Weekends as needed

**Education**:

- DCS / DEC (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Substance Misuse: 2 years (preferred)
- Youth Work: 2 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- First Aid Certification (preferred)
- Class 5 Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

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