Job Description

Program Assistant (RW) Elpida NEdmonton, AB, Canada Req #215Wednesday, January 24, 2024Catholic Social Services is currently seeking for Program Assistant(s) - Casual (no guaranteed hours) in EDMONTON to join the Elpida North team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community!Program Overview:You will be working in a Federal Halfway House whose primary focus is to assist the clients in making a successful transition to a responsible community life.Job Summary:As a Program Assistant, you are a team player who is dedicated to the supervision, support, assessment, and counselling of men or women on parole from federal institutions.Supporting daily living, you have the ability to develop client relationships that are based on mutual respect. You have strong verbal communication skills and the ability to write clear, precise and detailed case reports. Using youre your good decision- making abilities, you respond to difficult client behaviour in a non-reactive manner.You have the ability to work independently as well as in a team environmentWhat this job requires:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• One year of experience working in the human service field
• Training and experience with corrections, addictions, and the criminal justice system or adult offenders is preferred.
• Enhanced Security Check and Child Intervention Record Check

Enhanced Security Check, and Intervention Record Check are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.What We Offer:

• The salary for this position is $20.22 - $21.45 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 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 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 contactedWe 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.

Catholic Social Services