Resource Room Youth Worker

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Pacific Community Resources Society Full time

**Resource Room Youth Worker**
- Broadway Youth Resource Centre
- Supervisor: BYRC Supervisor
- Auxiliary/On-Call
- Grid 13 ($29.96-31.24/hour)
- Closing date: June 7, 2024, at 4:30pm

Opportunity
- The Resource Room Youth Worker supports youth ages 13-24 to connect to services and community through the hub services model. The Resource Room Worker works primarily afternoons and evenings to support staff, partners, and participants at the Broadway Youth Resource Centre. This is an on-call auxiliary position, meaning that work hours would be determined on an as-needed basis, and minimum hours will not be guaranteed.
The worker will work in a youth centered manner to build relationships, support in identifying goals and strengths of the youth and support in developing robust youth centered programming. This position is one that requires a strong vison of collaborative youth work to support youth connection to community and a sense of belonging. This position requires some facilitation of the Resource Room space as well as connected drop in program facilitation. Staff require a working knowledge of addictions and mental health, including harm reduction. Knowledge of local resources is required.
- Responsibilities
- The Resource Room Youth Worker (Auxiliary/On-Call) is a member of the Resource Room team, which is responsible for the support, supervision, and engagement within the Broadway Youth Resource Center drop-in services. The BYRC Resource Room is a low-barrier drop-in service that provides individuals ages 13-24 with food resources, activities, and one-to-one support, as well as connection to partners and programs.

Responsibilities include:

- Support Resource Room culture and maintain safer spaces for youth, as well as maintaining health and safety.
- Provide youth with basic needs and relational case management.
- Actively support and encourage participants in a strength based and participant centered framework.
- Support youth, partners, and visitors to connect with the right program within or outside of PCRS.
- Provide case management support with youth, one-to-one and sometimes in a community setting.
- Connect with social workers, youth outreach and other supports for youth.
- Provide harm reduction education and supplies and provide appropriate referrals.
- Be able to assess mental health risk for individuals and provide appropriate interventions and or referral.
- Qualifications
- B.A. in Social Work, Education, Social Justice, Community Development, or related discipline
- or a combination of education, life experience and related work experience with at-risk youth under the age of 24, including case management and program development/facilitation.
- Combination of experience and education is considered.
- Experience creating and working within a culturally inclusive environment for staff, partners, and participants.
- Additional Assets
- Criminal Record Check including the vulnerable sector.
- Current Standard First Aid certificate and Mental Health First Aid
- Trauma informed practice, suicide intervention training
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention
- Class 5 Driver’s License with Business Use Insurance; use of own vehicle required (Mileage is paid); Driver’s abstract.
- Be available for flexible working hours that may include evenings and weekends.
- 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 - we are a Certified Living Wage Employer
- 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 orien

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