Family Activity Worker

7 days ago

Victoria, Canada Victoria Women's Transition House Full time

**Victoria Women’s Transition House (VWTH)** is looking for a full-time **Family Activity Worker** to join our growing team

We are a non-profit charity, providing emergency shelter, counselling and support services for women of all ages, with or without children, fleeing from intimate partner violence and abuse. We are a vibrant, collaborative community looking for exceptional people to help us grow as we work towards our mission of ending intimate partner violence.

**Details of the Position**:
The Family Activity Worker plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates recreational, social and/or educational activities for shelter clients. Encourages and facilitates client’ participation in activities.

Other duties include:

- Plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates recreational, social and/or educational activities to meet clients’ needs.
- Encourages and facilitates clients’ participation in activities; provides guidance and instructions.
- Provides skill-building to clients such as life skills and social skills, and models appropriate behaviour.
- Ensures the safety of clients. Responds to emergencies in accordance with established policies.
- Provides age
- appropriate activities for children residing in Transition House including suitable craft projects, outdoor games, and quiet inside activities for children in residence.
- Organize outings for small groups of children and their caregivers staying at Transition House.
- Provides limited childcare for parents attending appointments or taking care of commitments in-house e.g., Meal preparation, support group attendance, etc.
- Attends weekly staff meetings to provide information regarding the needs of the children in the house.
- Maintains related records and statistics and produces reports as required.
- Participates in the overall management of the household by reporting to the appropriate staff person and documenting all safety, supply, and equipment issues (and when necessary, personally assisting in maintaining order in the house).

**Shifts**:
**Full time (35 hours/week)**
- Tuesday 11-7
- Thursday 11-7
- Saturday 9-5
- Friday 9-5
- Wednesday 9-5

**Qualifications**:

- Certificate in Child and Youth Care, Early Childhood Education or Recreation and six months recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Excellent communication skills; experience in working within a team approach; flexibility, creativity, initiative.

This position is required to work in an environment often dealing with clients in crisis situations or interpersonal situations. Staff are often working on their own, on site.

**Wage and Benefits**:
This is a union position and starts at $23.99 per hour with paid time off and excellent benefits package and Municipal Pension Plan.
- If_ _you require an accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please connect with our Human Resources Manager, at 250.592.2927 Ext. 224 for follow-up._

**_ It_** **_is with much respect to the Lkwungen and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples of the W̱SÁNEĆ, Esquimalt, and Songhees Nations, on whose traditional territories the Victoria Women’s Transition House Society is located, that we make this acknowledgement with the expressed shared hope to live in communities free of intimate partner violence._

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