Program Assistant

Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a Replacement Worker, Program Assistant in EDMONTON to join our Elpida North team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community  
Program Overview:     
You will be working in a Federal Halfway House whose primary focus is to assist the clients in making a successful transition to a responsible community life. 
Job Summary:
As a Program Assistant, you are a team player who is dedicated to the supervision, support, assessment, and counselling of men or women on parole from federal institutions.
Supporting daily living, you have the ability to develop client relationships that are based on mutual respect. You have strong verbal communication skills and the ability to write clear, precise and detailed case reports. Using you're your good decision- making abilities, you respond to difficult client behaviour in a non-reactive manner.
You have the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
What This Job Requires:

High school diploma or equivalent
One year of experience working in the human service field
Training and experience with corrections, addictions, and the criminal justice system or adult offenders is preferred.
Enhanced Security Check and Child Intervention Record Check

Enhanced Security Check, and Intervention Record Check are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.
What We Offer:

The hourly rate for this position is $ $22.184 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
We offer flexibility and supportive working environment.
Benefits available when eligible.
Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.

Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a part-time, 20 hours per week, Child & Youth Care Worker in EDMONTON to join our St Nicholas team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community. 
This position has a weekly schedule of: 20 hours per week Saturdays 10am -10pm and Mondays 7am - 3pm
 
Program Overview
The St. Nicholas House Program is looking for energetic individuals to work with clients with complex and special needs within an FSCD Program. Experience working with children and teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Looking for individuals with creative problem solving skills, time management skills, and is a team player in a highly structured environment. Qualified individuals must have experience collaborating with  families and  outside supports to develop goals and treatment plans for the clients. The qualified individual will be confident and skilled in CPI training when dealing with potentially aggressive clients. 
 
Job Summary:
As a Child and Youth Care Worker, you will be responsible for assessing the needs of the child/youth and parent/guardian, providing counselling and teaching basic life, community, and family living skills while ensuring basic needs are met (food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, safety). The Child and Youth Care Worker creates a safe, warm and positive environment where children/youth feel welcomed and loved. Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Managing a caseload of 1-2 families
Developing and overseeing service plans for children, youth, and their parents
Supervising and supporting children and youth in a semi-residential setting
Assisting children and youth in overcoming barriers, and supporting them to develop positive and healthy relationships with their families and communities
Supporting children and youth through life skills teaching and in-the-moment learning, with a hands-on approach
Assisting children and youth in attending appointments and successfully participating in their educational placements and/or day programs
Supporting parents and guardians to enhance their parenting skills and family capacity through weekly family support sessions
Supporting families to access community resources and natural supports
Submitting required program documentation with established time-frames
Performing basic housekeeping and meal preparation duties
Other duties as required

What This Job Requires:

A Diploma/Degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
A minimum of two (2) years of experience counselling families, children/youth with behavioral and developmental disabilities is required.
Experience with children and family programming, youth in care, residential care, and case management is a requirement of this position.
Certification or training in Aboriginal Awareness, Abuse Awareness, Standard First Aid, Medication Administration, and Violence/Crisis Intervention is a definite asset.

The ideal candidate will have an organized and compassionate approach to the work, strong teamwork skills, a commitment to developing positive supporting relationships, and experience supporting families. Other qualifications include:

Proven ability to provide effective communication, collaboration, crisis intervention, and conflict management with clients
Experience with or willingness to be trained on physical holds on the individuals that we serve.
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (NVCI) must be completed upon hire
Demonstrated assessment, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
Knowledge of community resources is an asset
Intermediate competency with Microsoft Office and other Agency computer applications
Demonstrated ability to act with professionalism, confidentiality, and diplomacy
Proven case documentation and effective information reporting practices
Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months
2 Years of Driving experience will be an asset

You can apply online for Police Information Check including Vulnerable Sector Search and Intervention Record Check.
For Police Information Check, including Vulnerable Sector Search, please visit the City of Edmonton's police service website.
For Intervention Record Check, please visit the  
Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, Intervention Record Check and/ or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.
What We Offer:

The salary for this position is $ $27.24 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.
Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.

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 65 years of service delivery experience, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with nearly 2000 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering over 100 different programs to people in need throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.

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: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.

We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted
Catholic Social Services is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce. In an effort to enrich our agency and reflect the communities we serve, we welcome applications from qualified individuals of all diverse groups and backgrounds.

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