Manager, Youth Transitional Housing and Shelter and

December 5, 2024 Posting #1465
- **YouthLink believes in the potential of every youth. We are dedicated to providing them with the support, guidance and opportunities they need to make positive life choices. We provide youth with brief and ongoing counselling, in-home wraparound support, shelter, housing, educational support, and safe drop-in spaces. **_**YouthLink works towards equitable outcomes for youth in our community and, as such, is committed to equity-based hiring practices.**_

**YouthLink Benefits are Top of Class**
- Competitive pay
- Health & dental coverage for you and your family with 100% premium cost paid by employer.
- *Annual vacation with pay at 1.66 working days for each calendar month to a maximum of **20** working days per year.
- **5** ‘authorized absence’ days for family illness or emergency circumstances that prohibit employees from reporting to work.
- **3 **paid agency days every calendar year after 3 calendar months’ service.
- Maternity / parental /adoption leave top-up payments (to top-up Canadian government unemployment benefit payments).
- 100% premium cost for long-term disability coverage paid by employee.
- Eligibility to participate in pension plan after 2 years of continuous service with generous matching contribution from employer.
- **(pro-rated for part-time employees according to the employee’s full-time equivalency (FTE))**_

**Manager - Shelter, Transitional Housing & Live-In Treatment (LIT) Program**

**(Temporary Contract Full-time, 35 hours/week)**

**Starting ASAP - March 1, 2026**

**Non-bargaining unit position**

The Manager, Shelter, Transitional Housing & LIT is responsible for the weekend operations of the Youth Transitional Housing and Shelter (YTHSP) and Long-Term Intensive Treatment Program (LIT). The Manager, Transitional Housing & LIT works with the City of Toronto and Ministry of Health (MOH) to ensure youth in the shelter and residential treatment systems have optimal outcomes by overseeing intense case management and programming. This includes managing functions of intake, food preparation and house management, data collection, security, housing referral, partnerships for referral sources; programming for youth, providing clinical consultation, performance management, supervision and direction to direct and indirect weekend staff working in the shelter and residence as well as input into the client treatment planning process.

**Your Role**

**Models and Builds a Strong Workplace Culture**
- Builds and/or maintains team and organizational values that ensure a healthy work environment where everyone feels safe, supported, engaged and motivated.

**Operational Planning and Budgeting**
- Builds and implements a strong housing and programming operational plan and supporting budgets that will ensure youth in the shelter, housing system and LIT program have optimal and equitable outcomes.
- Continually manages organizational risk and opportunities; participates in the development and implementation of risk mitigation plans. Ensures full compliance with accreditation, licensing, and all regulatory standards.
- Builds program capacity through developing a staffing model, agreements, resourcing, hiring and assessing training needs. Manages the weekend operations of the YTHSP and LITP. Works with staff on the development and implementation of the YTHSP. Ensures the provision of housing-focused case
- Management, including triage, screening, assessment, individualized service planning, case conferencing, brokering, referrals and transition to follow-up.
- Ensures that staff conduct intake assessments for shelter referrals including: screening clients to assess appropriateness and fit to our service; ensuring that all current and background information is recorded that might be relevant to the treatment matching and planning process; participates and collaborates on all program admission decisions; participates in weekly triage teleconferences with Centralized Access to Shelter Services. Assesses effectiveness of counselling support and collaboratively alters approach to suit client needs. Ensures that aftercare follow up with clients occurs to monitor and assist with post-discharge issues.
- Ensures the provision of client programming to meet client needs and support the client’s journey to independent living. Programming may include recreation, employment, life skills, substance abuse recovery, harm reduction, and trauma healing. Client programming will be customized and tailored to client needs. Assists with funding proposals as needed as required.
- Takes all reasonable and necessary precautions to protect his or her own health and safety and that of co-workers by complying and demonstrating knowledge of the policies, procedures and safe practices established by YouthLink

**Ensures the provision of community engagement and partnership**
- Including referral, liaison & service resolution, establishment of a Peer Program, Afrocentric programmin