Full-time Caseworker

**Title**: Full-Time Case Worker**

**Location(s)**:A Different Street Supportive Housing

**Salary**:$44,068.00- $50,289.00 per annum **based on work experience**

**Hours**: 35 hours per week

**Employer**:John Howard Society of Ottawa

**Closing Date**:Monday, September 13th

**About the environment**:Employees at JHS Ottawa say the organizational culture is supportive, innovative, and focused on creating a caring environment for both clients, and staff. At JHS Ottawa, you will find an employer that celebrates the uniqueness of each of its staff members and is committed to promoting an engaging working culture where all employees are encouraged to live their strengths and realize their potential. JHS Ottawa will provide permanent new employees access to a benefit plan, four weeks vacation annually, a Defined Contribution Pension Plan after eligibility waiting period, and opportunities for continual learning and development.

**About who we support**:Our employees are supporting a diverse client group including youth and adults, all genders, from a wide cross section of social, ethnic, linguistic and cultural backgrounds who are representative of our broader community. We are accountable to the people we serve by providing the highest quality of service with integrity through the delivery of responsive, innovative and evidence-informed approaches.

**About the role**:Under direction of the Residential Coordinator and Team Lead, a case worker at ADS provides male identifying youth, regardless of their complexities and challenges, an opportunity to access safe accommodations and utilize intensive on-site supports to assist with their life goals. This program strives to contribute to a reduction in the number of individuals using homeless shelters or living on the street, as well as to intervene with justice-involved and at-risk youth to decrease their risk for future offending and other problematic behaviours.
- Two years of experience in a leadership and/or management role in the homelessness and supportive housing sector
- Bilingual English & French
- Knowledge of the Housing First approach to homelessness, Y-SPDAT Assessment, and Case Works
- Understanding of and experience working with clients that struggle with homelessness, addictions, aggression, criminality, mental health issues
- Ability to coordinate all on-site program-related functions through a gender and trauma-responsive framework
- Experience working with counselling reluctant/court-ordered youth

**You’ll also be prepared to..**
- Work flexible hours that may include evenings and weekends
- Be on-call for program serious incident occurrences
- Work collaboratively within ADS and with external collaterals
- Have ownership of a vehicle and/or ability to be mobile to accommodate meetings in the community and internally at JHS sites
- Exercise extreme flexibility to accommodate fluctuating and varied program needs

**You’re a fit with our organizational culture, if you mirror our values in the way you work**:

- You are committed to providing the highest quality of care for your clients, through responsive, innovative, and evidence-informed approaches.
- Driven by curiosity, you adapt to achieve the best results for clients/communities you serve.
- Celebrating the uniqueness and lived experience of every person is part of your nature, and this conviction creates a sense of belonging, safety, and better outcomes for all.
- As a leader, you lead in a way that helps employees live their strengths and reach their potential.
- Lead with compassion and care for others, and help JHS build a culture of listening, mutual support, and meaningful connections.

**You’re a fit with our organizational culture, if you believe**:

- In building meaningful connections across our programs, partners, and neighbourhoods foster inclusion and empowerment.
- In a person-centred approach, recognizing the value, expertise, and capacity of each individual to make choices that lead to their best self.
- That systemic inequalities exist, and that all people have the right to be treated with dignity, to live free from discrimination, to have a home, and to access employment, education, health promotion and other supports.
- In reducing harm to individuals and communities through a non-judgmental approach that builds resiliency and accountability.
- In the capacity of individuals and communities to adapt, change, and grow while promoting the conditions to inspire positive transformation.
- We sincerely thank all applicants who express interest in JHS and this position
- only those selected for an interview will be contacted._