Job Description

Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a full-time, 40 hours per week, Child & Youth Care Worker in EDMONTON to join our Children Family and Community Service. 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 40 hour per week, Sunday-Thursday, mix of days and evenings.
Program Overview:
Our high risk program providing long term residential group care for high risk youth ages 15 to 18. The program supports youth to reduce their involvement in high risk behaviours using harm reduction principles and practices including circle of courage philosophy, strength based and resiliency focused assessments, which promote empowerment and stabilization. With support, youth work on developing skills to manage the high risk activities while working on personal goals.
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:

• Supervising and supporting children and youth in a residential setting
• Collaborating with and Developing/overseeing service plans for children, youth, and parents/guardians.
• Assisting children and youth in overcoming barriers, and supporting them to develop positive and healthy relationships with their families and communities
• Assisting children and youth in attending appointments, attending professional meetings and supporting them in successfully participating in their educational placements and/or day programs
• Supporting children and youth through life skills pre-teaching and in-the-moment learning, with a hands-on approach
• Supporting youth to access community resources and natural supports
• Supporting youth with personal care
• Managing case files and documentation for youth
• Submitting required program documentation within established time-frames
• Navigating electronic databases and inputting electronic documentation as required
• Collaborating with Zeno team members and other community professionals as required
• Performing basic housekeeping duties (cleaning, organizing, laundry meal preparation, gardening etc.)
• 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 and a commitment to developing positive supporting relationships,
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 youth 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 informalberta.ca
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 $24.21 - $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 more than 60 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1900 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs 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.
We embrace diversity and offer equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of origin, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, gender identity, and people of faith or no faith.

Skills Required