Direct Support Worker

**Direct Support Professional - Employment Specialist**

Are you looking for a meaningful career that empowers you to create social change? Do you want to make a difference in people’s lives and in your community? Launch, grow, or reimagine your career as an Employment Specialist with Community Living Huntsville

Our passionate team of Direct Support Professionals is dedicated to advancing inclusion for people who live with developmental disabilities in North Muskoka. As an Employment Specialist with our Community Participation team, you will support people with disabilities in their person-directed goals to achieve and maintain meaningful and fulfilling employment, promote understanding and disability inclusion with local employers and workplaces, and help build a strong community where everyone feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and connection.

And while you are making a difference in people’s lives, we will work hard to make a difference in yours with competitive pay, employer-paid benefits, ongoing training and professional development opportunities, a robust employee and family assistance program, positive and collaborative team environment, and opportunities for career advancement.

**Your Role**:

- To encourage people you support to actively explore interests and determine goals for their lives, then to record those goals and create strategies to support them to achieve their goals. To provide day-to-day support and personalized options that enable people’s capacity to achieve well-connected lives at home and in their community. To assist people in ways that enable and facilitate their health, safety, and valued social roles, continually.

**Your Duties**:

- Support the health, safety, and medical needs of the people you support
- Help people connect with community spaces and resources (this may look like going to the pool, or taking someone shopping, or to a concert)
- Support people to build independence both at home and in the community (this may look like helping someone learn to cook new recipes, or learn to use the local bus system)
- Support people to grow relationships with family, friends, community members, employers, and community groups
- Assist people with personal care, as needed, in ways that respect their choices, abilities, and dignity, and facilitates their daily, weekly, and monthly rhythms and routines
- Knowledge and experience working within an Employment Ontario setting
- Ability to case manage clients with a focus towards their employment goals
- Experience working with various employers, developing relationships to support employment opportunities

**Your Qualifications**:

- DSW diploma or 2-year diploma in the Human Services field
- Knowledge about and commitment to disability rights, the principles of inclusion, and the Community Living Movement
- Strong communication skills
- Physical ability to support people, some with limited mobility, in all aspects of daily living and in different settings
- Valid driver’s license, acceptable driver’s abstract and reliable transportation to be used in course of employment
- Ability to obtain a clear Vulnerable Sector Check
- Ability, availability, and commitment to work a variety of shifts, including evenings, overnights, and weekends
- Use of CaMS program or willingness to learn
- Demonstrated ability to document work with clients and employers

**The Offer**:

- This is a temporary full-time position. Full-time hours are based on 75 hours per pay period. This position will regularly be scheduled shifts that include days, evenings and weekends.
- Depending on the location(s) and support requirements, the worker is able to work additional hours when necessary, including emergencies, illness or vacation time.
- Wellness Initiatives and Programs
- Opportunities for Career Advancement

Pay: From $28.70 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Employee assistance program
- Mileage reimbursement
- Wellness program

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekends as needed

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Huntsville, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person