Full-time Direct Support Worker

2 days ago

KitchenerWaterloo, Canada KW Habilitation Full time

**LOCATION: Kitchener-Waterloo, ON**

KW Habilitation is a local not-for-profit organization that provides a wide range of individualized services and supports to children with any special need and adults with developmental disabilities. We support individuals to live a fulfilling life which is fostered through preschool and early learning supports, respite services, residential services, community participation, and employment supports.

We are looking for an experienced Direct Support Worker to join our team. Specific duties for this role include: providing respectful and supportive care, promoting people’s skills and abilities, providing the opportunity and education for growth and development, honoring personal choice and informed decision making, and implementing individualized plans with attainable outcomes. Successful applicants will demonstrate a strong commitment to person directed support and the vision of KW Habilitation

Our Vision Statement guides our work: “A community where everyone belongs and participates”.

**Perks**
- Developmental Service Worker Apprenticeship Program Sponsor
- Paid on-the-job training
- Paid professional development opportunities
- Employee and Family Assistance Program for all staff, their partners, and dependents
- Discounted rates on home and auto insurance
- Fun and engaging workplace

**Responsibilities**
- Providing respectful and supportive personal care
- Providing lifts and transfers as necessary
- Promoting people’s skills and abilities
- Providing opportunities and education for growth and development
- Honouring personal choice and informed decision-making
- Implementing individualized routines that are patterned to reflect typical life experiences and which involve people to the highest degree possible

**Requirements**:

- Post-secondary education related to Human Services, completed or on-going.
- Ability to implement positive behaviour approaches, work as an integral part of the team and demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills.
- Able to demonstrate creative problem-solving and decision-making, initiative, resilience and collaboration.
- Commitment to providing person directed support and must believe in an inclusive community, fostering independence, and advocating for others to have their own voice.
- Experience working / volunteering with people who have a developmental disability.
- A comfort level with intimate personal care and skills in providing both direct personal care and positive behavioural support.
- Current Emergency First Aid, NVCI, and computer skills are also essential. Additional training is provided by KW Habilitation.
- A valid G or G2 driver’s license

**Core Competencies**
- Advocacy
- Building Relationships
- Championing Change and Innovation
- Facilitating Growth and Development
- Inclusive Leadership
- Problem Solving & Decision Making
- Resilience
- Resource Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Valuing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)

**Schedule**:Monday to Friday 3-11pm
**Start Date**: January 2025
**Rate of Pay**: Salary: $44,532.80 - $49,483.20

**To Apply, Please Visit Our Job Application Page**
**Only successful applicants will be notified. If you are selected for an interview, you will be contacted.**

**KW Habilitation**
**ATTN: Lorraine Stavenow Manager of Inclusive Living**
99 Ottawa Street South
Kitchener, ON N2G 3S8

**Job ID: 2511386

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