Job Description

Catholic Social Services is currently recruiting for a Full Time (40 hours/week) Community Disability Worker I in Red Deer.

Job Summary:

As a Community Disability Worker, you will provide high quality supports to adults with developmental disabilities who live in the community.

Motivated, compassionate and organized, you will enthusiastically assist by providing residential and outreach supports while promoting dignity, independence and empowerment. Open to learning new things, you will teach independent living skills, provide companionship, support behavioral challenges, provide personal care, 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. The successful candidate may be required to work days, evenings, and weekends.

Education & Qualifications:

• Grade 12 education
• A minimum 1 year working with persons with developmental disabilities will be considered an asset
• Vulnerable Sector Check issued by the RCMP or City Police
• Child Intervention Record Check
• Clear and current driver's abstract
• A vehicle and class 5 driver's license - requirement to transport clients in your personal vehicle
• Proof of vehicle insurance showing $2 million liability coverage
• Standard First Aid Certification considered an asset

What we Offer:

• The salary range for this position is $17.71 to $18.79 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
• A comprehensive benefits/pension package for qualifying positions.
• 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:

CSS is 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 Central Alberta.

"As a Catholic social services agency, we are guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect."

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 at www.cssalberta.ca/careers, to competition number 3058.

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.