Child Youth Care Specialist

5 days ago

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada CSS Full time
Child and Youth Care Worker Job Description
Program Overview

The Angelus program focuses on supporting high-risk individuals aged 13 to 16. Our high-risk programs help youth develop skills for independent living and reducing involvement in high-risk behaviors through harm reduction principles and practices, including the circle of courage philosophy, strength-based and resiliency-focused assessments that promote empowerment and stabilization.


Job Summary

As a Child and Youth Care Worker, you will assess the needs of children/youth and parents/guardians, provide counseling, and teach basic life, community, and family living skills while ensuring basic needs are met. You will create a safe, warm, and positive environment where children/youth feel welcomed and loved. Responsibilities include:



  • Managing a caseload of 1-2 families
  • Developing and overseeing service plans for children, youth, and their parents
  • Supervising and supporting children and youth in a semi-residential setting
  • Assisting children and youth in overcoming barriers and developing positive and healthy relationships with their families and communities
  • Supporting children and youth through life skills teaching and in-the-moment learning with a hands-on approach
  • Assisting children and youth in attending appointments and successfully participating in their educational placements and/or day programs
  • Supporting parents and guardians to enhance their parenting skills and family capacity through weekly family support sessions
  • Supporting families to access community resources and natural supports
  • Submitting required program documentation with established time-frames
  • Performing basic housekeeping and meal preparation duties
  • Other duties as required

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:



  • A Diploma/Degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
  • A minimum of two (2) years of experience counseling families, children/youth with behavioral and developmental disabilities
  • Experience with children and family programming, youth in care, residential care, and case management
  • Certification or training in Aboriginal Awareness, Abuse Awareness, Standard First Aid, Medication Administration, and Violence/Crisis Intervention
  • Proven ability to provide effective communication, collaboration, crisis intervention, and conflict management with clients
  • Experience with or willingness to be trained on physical holds on the individuals served
  • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (NVCI) must be completed upon hire
  • Demonstrated assessment, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
  • Knowledge of community resources
  • Intermediate competency with Microsoft Office and other Agency computer applications
  • Demonstrated ability to act with professionalism, confidentiality, and diplomacy
  • Proven case documentation and effective information reporting practices
  • Required 2 years of driving experience
  • Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months
  • Summary of driving record with no more than six (6) demerit points current within one (1) year

What We Offer

We offer:



  • The salary for this position is $24.21 - $27.23 per hour based on qualifications and experience
  • 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
  • Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative, and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry

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. 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.

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