Job Description

Catholic Social Services is currently seeking two full-time, 40 hours per week, Family Enrichment Worker in EDMONTON to join our Collaborative Service Delivery team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community!



This position is 40 hours per week with a flexible schedule based on the needs of the family, including evenings and weekends.

Program Overview:

The Collaborative Service Delivery Program provides high quality supports to children and families directly involved with Children and Family Services. This position requires workers to teach parenting and communication skills, support access to community resources, coordinate other services, as well as support and transport children to family visitations.

Job Summary:

This position requires workers to engage families through early intervention and family driven practice. A key component of this position is supporting children and families to connect with resources and organizing service delivery with stakeholders. You will be determining family needs through assessments and creating service plans in collaboration with families. When leading innovative service delivery, your strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills will be an asset. Through motivation, compassion, and organization, you will support families through empowerment.

As a Family Enrichment Worker, you will:

Work collaboratively with the regional staff to meet needs under the casework practice model Complete ongoing case planning, review (monthly) and evaluate the appropriateness, and level of service Organize service delivery with families, stakeholders, and internal ministries Support parents/caregivers to be responsible in overcoming barriers to achieving identified goals Deliver services from a strength based family systems approach Maintain a current and comprehensive awareness of applicable community resources to meet client's specific needs and advocate for clients when appropriate Provide resources and model (communication, boundaries, behaviour management, child development), effective problem solving or other relevant information related to outlined client goals Ensure long term, informal supports are in place to ensure family's success

What This Job Requires:

A diploma/degree in Human Services (or equivalent) A minimum three (3) years of related experience including knowledge of community resources and family intervention Experience with children and youth experiencing mental health issues, and/or addictions are required

This position requires a flexible work schedule to meet the needs of families including daytime, evening and weekend work. An on-call component is required.

A reliable Vehicle, Valid Driver's License, Vehicle Registration and Third Party Liability Insurance (amount of two million) Required 2 years of driving experience Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months Summary of Driver's Abstract with no more than six (6) demerit points current within one (1) year.

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 records are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

What We Offer:

The annual salary for this position is $54,851.76 to $61,721.28 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.

We welcome and celebrate the diversity of our employees and volunteers who choose to work with our Agency in support of our mission, values, and principles. We employ and serve people of all faiths, or no faith, while respecting all backgrounds and experiences.

"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.

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.