Rehabilitation Services Coordinator

**Rehabilitation Services Coordinator - Brain Injury Services - York Region & Simcoe County**

**Looking for steady, meaningful work?**

Join our Community Support Services team at March of Dimes Canada. Provide daily care and support to people with disabilities and seniors in your community.

We currently have a Team opportunity available in our Newmarket program.

As a member of our Community Support Services team, you will provide care and connection to people with disabilities, brain injuries or seniors. You will provide support within their individual or shared-living homes or within their community.

Because of you, people in your community will live a better-quality life, with dignity. It’s a job to be proud of.

**Why join March of Dimes Canada?**
- Deeply satisfying work
- Steady employment with one of the most respected agencies in CanadaFull
- and part-time jobs
- A stable and supportive team of proud workers, many who have been with us for years
- Successful employee training program
- Competitive benefits package (including health and dental benefits for part-time staff after one year of employment and who work a minimum number of hours)
- Pension plan (optional for part-time staff who work a minimum number of hours)
- Paid sick time
- Vacation time (vacation pay for part-time staff, including the option to bank time for a one-time payout)
- Best practices protecting health and safety
- Excellent safety record with COVID-19
- Scheduling allows for work/life balance
- Culturally diverse workplace

**Who is March of Dimes Canada?**

From our humble beginnings in 1951 as a group of mothers going door-to-door collecting dimes in support of polio research, March of Dimes Canada has grown into a national, multi-service not-for-profit organization. We work for people with disabilities and seniors, helping them with daily living, rehabilitation, and employment.

**What does the Community Support Services team do?**

Our Community Support Services team, which is primarily funded by governments, provides essential services that enable people to live as independently as possible. Whether the disability is physical, cognitive or the result of brain injury or aging, our team of 1,600 employees assists people in their homes and communities, helping them gain a greater level of functioning and connection with others. Over the past year, the number of people we serve rose to more than 6,100 people.

**This Opportunity**

We are currently looking to fill a full-time permanent position for a **Rehabilitation Service Coordinator** for March of Dimes Brain Injury Groups - Y**ork Region & Simcoe County**.

**Duties include the following**:

- Plans and implements programs designed to enhance the efficiency and safe delivery to clients with an Acquired Brain Injury
- Recruits, employs, trains, supervises and evaluates support service staff, within a pre
- determined budget in accordance with the approval of program plans
- Implement group activities as per the direction and approval of the Community Support Supervisor
- Ability to organize and facilitate weekly in-person and virtual group sessions that interests the group participants and promote high level of participation and engagement.
- Ability to create weekly newsletters offering community resources where applicable, fun facts, word puzzles, seek input from clients on newsletter to gain their input
- Reporting responsibilities (incident reports, and notes to file, completing newsletters and groups calendars, monthly reporting)
- Participate in any required mandatory training
- Follow all policies and procedures
- Communicate with clients and team members
- Ability to drive to community locations where groups are held weekly, within YorkRegion & Simcoe County

**Background / Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary preferred in Human and Social Services
- 2 - 5 years experience in the Social Services/Health Sector, coordinating services for individuals with ABI.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise and train employees to include organizing, prioritizing and scheduling work assignments
- Experience with group facilitation is an asset
- Proven consistency in work performance, including teamwork, reliability and flexibility
- Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills
- Sound behavioral management skills, cognitive problem-solving skills.
- Working knowledge of brain injury and cognitive rehabilitation is an asset
- Highly organized and excellent time management skills
- Problem solving and conflict resolution skills
- Strong ability to assess and determine effective compensatory strategies for individuals with brain injuries.
- Current CPR/First Aid
- March of Dimes Canada has a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. All employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by receiving all required doses of a vaccine approved by Health Canada at least 14 days prior to the commencement of their employment, or as otherwise recommended by public hea