Family Enrichment Worker

**_Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a full time, contract _**_Family_**_ _**_Enrichment Worker_**_ in EDMONTON to join our _**_Collaborative Service Delivery Framework_**_ team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community_**

**_This position works 40 hours per week with flexibility on evenings and weekends required. This is an 18 months contract position._**

**Program Overview**:
The Collaborative Service Delivery Framework Program provides high quality supports to children and families directly involved with Children and Youth Services. This position requires workers to teach parenting and communication skills, as well as support and transport children to family visitations.

**Job Summary**:
This position requires workers to engage families through early intervention and family driven practice. A key component of this position is supporting children and families to connect with resources and organizing service delivery with stakeholders. You will be determining family needs through assessments and creating service plans in collaboration with families. When leading innovative service delivery, your strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills will be an asset. Through motivation, compassion, and organization, you will support families through empowerment.

As a Family Enrichment Worker, you will:

- Work collaboratively with the regional staff to meet needs under the casework practice model
- Complete ongoing case planning, review (monthly) and evaluate the appropriateness, and level of service
- Organize service delivery with families, stakeholders, and internal ministries
- Support parents/caregivers to be responsible in overcoming barriers to achieving identified goals
- Deliver services from a strength based family systems approach
- Maintain a current and comprehensive awareness of applicable community resources to meet client’s specific needs and advocate for clients when appropriate
- Provide resources and model (communication, boundaries, behaviour management, child development), effective problem solving or other relevant information related to outlined client goals
- Ensure long term, informal supports are in place to ensure family’s success

**Education and Qualifications**:

- A diploma/degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
- A minimum three (3) years of related experience including knowledge of community resources and family intervention
- Experience with children and youth experiencing mental health issues, and/or addictions are required

This position requires a flexible work schedule to meet the needs of families including daytime, evening and weekend work. An on-call component is required.
- Driver's Abstract with less than six (6) demerit points current within one (1) year
- Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search and Children's Service Intervention Record Check must be current within six (6) months
- A reliable Vehicle, Valid Driver’s License, Vehicle Registration and Third Party Liability Insurance (amount of two million)
- Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months
- Summary of driving record with no more than six (6) demerit points current within one (1) year.

**What We Offer**:

- The compensation for this position is **$25.50 to $28.70** per hour based on qualifications and experience.
- We offer flexibility and supportive working environment.
- Flexible benefit options when eligible.
- Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.

**About Catholic Social Services**:
You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect. With more than 50 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1800 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.

We welcome and celebrate the diversity of our employees and volunteers who choose to work with our Agency in support of our mission, values, and principles. We employ and serve people of all faiths, or no faith, while respecting all backgrounds and experiences.
- “As a Catholic social services agency, we are guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.” _

**Our values are at the core of everything we do**
- **Humility**: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
- **Compassion**: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
- **Respect**: W