Job Description

Are you looking for an inviting and exciting career opportunity where you\'ll be enhancing the life of somebody in your community? Put your passion for working within the community towards a rewarding opportunity with Catholic Social Services! Catholic Social Services is currently recruiting for casual Community Disability Workers in Lacombe. Job Summary: As a Community Disability Worker, you will provide high quality support to adults with developmental disabilities who live in the community in our supported independent living program. Motivated, compassionate and organized, you will enthusiastically assist by providing outreach supports while promoting dignity, independence and empowerment. Open to learning new things, you will teach independent living skills, provide companionship, support behavioral challenges and implement programs tailored to individual needs. You will be required to accompany individuals on outings and engage in activities supporting their interests as well as their well-being. You are self-motivated, resourceful, and comfortable working both independently and part of a service team. You have great relationship building skills and are proficient with computers. Hours of work are based on the needs of the individual, therefore, shifts may vary. Shifts will include days, evenings and weekends between the hours of 8am -10pm. This position is located in Lacombe. Education & Qualifications:

• Grade 12 education (education in Human Services is considered an asset)
• A minimum 6 months working with persons with developmental disabilities will be considered an asset
• Knowledge of MS and brain injuries is an asset
• Vulnerable Sector Check from local RCMP or City Police detachment
• Standard First Aid Certification is considered an asset
• Class 5 driver\'s license and reliable vehicle (with two million dollars liability insurance)
• Clear and current driver\'s abstract
• Current vehicle registration

What We Offer:

• The compensation for this position is $17.71 to $18.79 per hour 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 50 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1800 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Edmonton and Central Alberta. 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.

How to apply: Please apply online, quoting the competition number 3315 to www.cssalberta.ca 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.