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Youth Services Assistant

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Waterloo, Canada KidsAbility Full time

**Youth Services Assistant**
- 37.5 Hours per Week, Contract | June 2, 2025 - August 29, 2025_
- Note summer closure dates July 28, 2025 - August 8, 2025 _

**About KidsAbility**:
We are a not-for-profit, equal opportunity employer supporting over 17,000 children and youth to reach their social, physical, communication and behavioural goals each year. Providing early and exceptional family-centred services in the Waterloo and Guelph-Wellington regions, we believe that by living our values, our impact can be profound, and together, we can build brighter futures. We’re looking for the right people to join our team; supporting children, youth, and families to realize their potential, while realizing your own. At KidsAbility, we offer:

- A supportive, collaborative, and inclusive work environment dedicated to family-centred care
- Organizational commitment to innovation and research; continually evolving our approaches so we may serve with purpose and value
- Initiatives to support your well-being including social events, opportunities to give back to your community and access to Employee and Family Assistance Program

**About the Opportunity**:
**Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Participate in program planning, development, and evaluation of Youth Services
- Connect with other KidsAbility service areas and community-based groups/services to provide youth perspective
- Assist with the creation of a recruitment strategy for Youth Services and Therapeutic Recreation programs and initiatives
- Work with Team to support children and youth accessing KidsAbility services
- Initiate and facilitate conversations with clients which may include sharing personal experiences
- Work independently and as part of the Team
- Collaborate with team members in a multi-disciplinary environment providing client-centered care
- Communicate effectively with clients, families, and colleagues
- Participate in professional and organizational initiatives supporting quality management and research

**More About You**:

- Experience working with children and youth is an asset, including experience with children and youth who have a variety of physical, developmental, and communication disorders
- Fun and creative
- Strong organizational and time management skills and creative problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral; including the ability to communicate well in groups and individually
- Respectful of client’s rights to confidentiality
- Computer proficiency including Word, Excel, Outlook, internet, and familiarity with social networking tools
- Travel to Guelph and Waterloo, with outreach to other sites as required. You must have a valid drivers license and access to a reliable vehicle with public liability/property damage coverage
- Ability to work evenings and weekends as required
- We welcome all applicants including individuals with lived experience and who identify as an individual living with a disability

This position is funded through the Canada Summer Jobs program, and therefore applicants must meet the following requirements:

- You must be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of employment
- You must be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of employment; and
- You must have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 weeks

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Weekends as needed

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Waterloo, ON (N2L): reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2025-05-15
Expected start date: 2025-06-02