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Community Support Worker
2 weeks ago
Strive Living Society (Strive) is looking for caring and enthusiastic individuals to join our progressive non-profit organization as **Support Workers in our Hybrid Supported Home Share program**. **The Hybrid Supported Home Share Program** is a wrap-around model of care that Strive provides to **Adults** with complex behavioral, social, and medical needs. Individuals are placed into carefully matched family care homes and receive a minimum of 30+ hours of one-to-one support per week, as well as ongoing case management.
**Why work for Strive?**
- Employer paid Criminal Record Check Clearance
- Paid orientations
- Paid trainings (First Aid, CPR, Mandt, etc.) and professional development
- Employer paid extended health benefits including prescription medication, paraprofessional services, vision, etc. *
- Employer paid dental benefits including orthodontic coverage *
- Employer contribution to Municipal Pension Plan (MPP) *
- Employer paid Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Casual employees are provided up to an additional 10.2% of wages in lieu of benefits
- Reimbursement to upgrade to Class 4 BCDL if required (one time only upon successful acquisition)
- Competitive paid annual vacation
- Generous statutory holiday pay
- Generous paid Health Bank
- Flexible schedules to accommodate life/work balance
- Referral bonus program
- An inclusive environment with team building events and cultural celebrations
- Health and wellness activities and incentives
- Milestone rewards
- Access to community member discounts
- Ongoing support, mentoring, and recognition to help with engagement and career growth
**Pay rate: $25.95/hour *plus benefits upon meeting eligibility requirements.**
- Some benefits have eligibility requirements of surpassing three (3) months and securing a regular position of 20 hours/week or more. The benefits and criteria may change from time to time at the discretion of Strive.
**The ideal applicant shall possess**:
- Experience working with behavioural support plans and safety plans
- Experience working with high-anxiety individuals
- Experience and understanding of Mental Health and Challenging Behaviours
- Demonstrated ability to work with adults with behavioural, social, emotional and mental health/psychiatric issues
- Ability to create a meaningful routine
- Crisis management
- Knowledgeable of creating independence vs. creating dependence
- Completing daily documentation on a Microsoft platform database on their own computer
- Implementing personal protocols, schedules, and activities
- Accompanying/transporting individuals to appointments and activities in the community
- Community integration
- Able to set firm boundaries
- Ability to encourage, motivate and involve the client in community activities.
- Access to computer and internet
- Proven ability to develop a rapport with adults in a variety of contexts.
- Ability to communicate effectively (both verbally and in writing) with educational personnel, social workers and resource workers, service providers and partners
- Able to self-start, make judgment calls, and create new models/programs as needed
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team environment
- Proven ability to work with mínimal supervision
- The physical ability to perform all the duties required of the position
**Job qualifications include (if you do not have all of these, but demonstrate you are a good fit for the position, Strive may be able assist you to acquire some of these requirements)**:
- **Class 5 BC Driver’s License required and clean driver’s abstract**
- **Minimum of 1-year of experience (or combination of education and experience)**:
- **University degree or college diploma in a Community Social Worker program and/or similar**:
- Positive Behaviour Management Training
- Criminal Record Clearance, Ministry of Justice.
- First Aid and CPR Certificate
- MANDT Training will be offered in house
- Food Safe Certificate
- 2 professional references
- *Other requirements which may be specific to the individual(s) served*
**NO COVID VACCINATION REQUIRED**
Strive is a non-profit registered charity providing residential and community inclusion supports to children, youth, adults, and older adults throughout the lower mainland since 1988. If you can relate to our mission and vision, we want you to work for us
Strive’s Mission is “To partner with individuals of diverse abilities to lead healthy, fulfilling lives by providing a foundation of support.”
Strive’s Vision is “Building a continuum of services to support the needs of individuals at every stage of life.”
*without precedence and without prejudice*
- Strive Living Society is an equal opportunity employer which does not discriminate against age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability._
- Strive Living Society is grateful to operate on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Nations._
**Licenses & Certifications**: Required
- First Aid
- Crim
