Resource Room Youth Worker

**Youth Worker**

**Broadway Youth Resource Centre, Vancouver**
**Auxiliary**| **Grid 13 ($30.86 - $32.18/hour)** | **Reporting to: Team Lead, BYRC**

**Opportunity**

The Resource Room Youth Worker is a member of the Resource Room team, which is responsible for the support, supervision, and engagement within the Broadway Youth Resource Center drop-in services. The BYRC Resource Room is a low-barrier drop-in service that provides individuals ages 13-24 with food resources, activities, and one-to-one support, as well as connection to partners and programs.

The Youth Worker will work in a youth-centered manner to build relationships, support in identifying goals and strengths of the youth and support in developing robust youth centered programming. This position is one that requires a strong vison of collaborative youth work to support youth connection to community and a sense of belonging. This position requires some facilitation of the Resource Room space as well as connected drop-in program facilitation. Staff require a working knowledge of substance use and mental health, including harm reduction. Knowledge of local resources is required.

**This is an on-call auxiliary position, meaning that work hours would be determined on an as-needed basis, and minimum hours will not be guaranteed.**

**Responsibilities**
- Support Resource Room culture and maintain safer spaces for youth, as well as maintaining health and safety.
- Provide youth with basic needs and relational case management.
- Actively support and encourage participants in a strength based and participant centered framework.
- Support youth, partners, and visitors to connect with the right program within or outside of PCRS.
- Provide case management support with youth, one-to-one and sometimes in a community setting.
- Connect with social workers, youth outreach and other supports for youth.
- Provide harm reduction education and supplies and provide appropriate referrals.
- Be able to assess mental health risk for individuals and provide appropriate interventions and or referral.

**Qualifications**
- B.A. in Social Work, Education, Social Justice, Community Development, or related discipline or a combination of education, life experience and related work experience with at-risk youth under the age of 24, including case management and program development/facilitation. Combination of experience and education is considered.
- Experience creating and working within a culturally inclusive environment for staff, partners, and participants.
- Criminal record check including the vulnerable sector
- Basic First Aid certification with CPR-A

**Additional Assets**
- Mental Health First Aid Certification
- Trauma Informed Practice, suicide intervention training
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention or MANDT Training

**About PCRS**
- Pacific Community Resources Society (PCRS) is a large not-for-profit agency that serves some of the most vulnerable people in our communities from Vancouver to Hope. We work with youth and vulnerable adults in the areas of education, employment, housing, substance use and mental health, and youth and family support services. We are CARF Accredited and a Certified Living Wage Employer.
- We are grateful to operate on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷm əθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Qw'?ntl'en (Kwantlen), se’mya’me (Semiahmoo), sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen), q̓ic̓əy (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Coquitlam), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), máthxwi (Matsqui) and Stó:lō Nations.

**Our Vision**Everyone thriving in strong, healthy communities

**Our Mission** To inspire healthy and inclusive communities through leadership and collaboration.

**Our Values** Advocacy, Diversity and Inclusion, Empowerment, Service Excellence, Stewardship, Well-being

**We Offer Our Staff**
- Equitable Base Pay - we are a Certified Living Wage Employer
- Generous paid vacation time, personal time, sick time; additional paid time off for life events
- Additional paid holidays, ex. Easter Monday, Boxing Day *
- Extended health, prescription, dental & vision care plan, with 100% Employer-Paid Premiums*
- Disability and Life Insurance Coverage *
- Employee & Family Assistance Program including preventative health & counselling *
- Membership in the Municipal Pension Plan with generous employer contributions *
- Flexible schedules and earned time off program *
- Full-day agency orientation and extensive training, with regular ongoing performance evaluations
- In-house digital and classroom learning opportunities; staff funding for professional development *
- Opportunities to use your voice & participate in committees on policy, wellness, safety, EDI, etc.
- _Eligibility will vary depending on terms and role requirements - details for this posting will be provided on request._