Job Description

Catholic Social Services is currently seeking contract full-time, 40 hours per week, Community Disability Counsellor in EDMONTON to join our McDaniel Manor 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:

40 hours per week. Weekday shifts with some weekend shifts on rotation. No set shifts for this position due to weekly rotation. Contract Ends on October 15, 2026.

Job Summary:

Supporting adults with various disabilities in group care, you are critical to the personal success of individuals in our care. Skilled with assessment, program planning and implementation, you are a strong advocate for dignity and independence. Assisting with daily living, medical needs, behavioral supports and personal care, you are also an important link to community resources. As our programs operate on a 24 hour basis, shift work is required and may include weekends, depending on the needs of the program.

What This Job Requires:

Diploma/Degree in Human Services or equivalent Minimum 1 year experience working with persons with developmental disabilities, behavior, mental health & addictions 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 Program development experience is considered an asset Should have good experience in personal care, as well as lifting Vulnerable Sector Check issued by RCMP or City Police Child Intervention Record Check Summary of driving record with no more than six (6) demerit points current within one (1) year. Required 2 years of driving experiences

What We Offer:

The compensation for this position ranges from $23.40 - $24.83 per hour and is based on qualifications and experience. 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.