Success Coach

**Success Coach**

**Competition #1577**

The Family Centre has a strong reputation for providing quality services basing our work on research and evidence-based practices. We pride ourselves on providing leading-edge training and strong, reflective supervision. Our intention is to create a healthy organization that is intelligent in its response to community issues and intentional about our respectful treatment of each other. We have a strong focus on Trauma-Informed

Care for the communities we support, as well as our staff teams. The Family Centre strives to hire a diverse team of employees, reflecting the diverse communities we support. The Family Centre is committed to Indigenous ceremony and practice and welcomes knowledge of ceremony and lived experience.

**Mission**:
The Family Centre exists to support families and children to help them flourish and to help people engage with one another in order to promote healthy, safe, and economically viable communities.

**Vision**:
Healthy families in healthy communities.

**Success Coach**:
The Family Centre is currently hiring energetic individuals interested in working with children as a Success Coach. The Success Coach model is grounded in researched based practice, with intentional activities and intended outcomes. The impact of Success
Coaches is that children and youth have increased social-emotional capacity, strengthened resilience, nurturing ecological connections, and see themselves as having the potential for success in school and life; Communities have collaborative access to resources, organizations are educated and mobilized to support, and youth are positively engaged within the community. The position reports to the Supervisor, Community
Initiatives at The Family Centre.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor Degree in a Human Services related field or equivalent education
- 2 years’ experience working with youth with complex needs
- Eligibility for membership in a professional organization is an asset
- Proficient communication, caseload management, and facilitation skills
- Experience working with diverse populations
- Ability to work in an integrated partnership with schools, community agencies, and natural support networks
- Computer Literacy including, but not limited to Microsoft and Google products

**Mandatory Requirements**:

- Police Information Check (Vulnerable Sector) and Intervention Record Check

(must have to start employment and renewed every 3 years)
- Standard First Aid Level C CPR and ASIST Suicide Intervention Training
- Reliable vehicle with 2-million liability insurance, 5-year driver abstract and valid driver’s license
- Brain Story Certification Training (must be completed within the first 1 year of employment)

**Attributes**:
Success Coaches will demonstrate the following competencies:

- Interpersonal skills to help establish positive working relationships with students, families, natural support networks, and stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment
- Able to be adaptable while establishing clear boundaries, triaging and prioritizing the demands of the role
- Is a self-starter that takes initiative to create and deliver various types of programming including classroom presentations, groups and Professional

Learning opportunities for stakeholders
- Able to demonstrate TFC Principles and to be a TFC Brand Ambassador
- Excellent organizational, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to utilize various Practice Guides with youth, such as Child and Youth

Resilience Measure, Network mapping and creating SMART goals
- Cultural Humility and Awareness of Indigenous ceremony and ways of being
- Knowledge of and competence in delivering trauma-informed care
- Crisis Management skills and capacity to support individuals in a variety of challenging situations
- Ability to maintain positive wellbeing amongst emotionally demanding and stressful environments through self-care strategies
- Understands the meaning in teachings and values embedded in ceremony, circle processes, and relational accountability
- Understands the importance of allyship with equity-seeking communities

**Responsibilities**:
Formal caseload
- Meet with child or youth on a 1:1 basis and utilize Practice Guides to identify their natural support system, develop goal(s), increase supportive relationships, aim to reduce sources of stress and strengthen core skills
- Engage caregivers to participate and support their child or youth’s goal(s), healthy development, positive experiences in school and connections with family
- Practice within the Family Centre’s Theory of Change (Relationships, Trauma

Informed Care and Resiliency)

Short Term Engagement
- Establish therapeutic relationships through role modelling, mentoring and supporting
- Offer support to students on a short-term basis to learn responsible decision making; conflict resolution, communication and social skills; increase social and em