Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a full-time, 40 per week, Child & Youth Care Worker in EDMONTON to join our Safe House program. 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: Monday to Friday on a rotation; Week 1 - three evenings (2:00pm -10:00pm/1:00pm -10:00pm or 3:00pm -11:00pm), two days 7:00am - 3:00pm/8:00am - 4:00pm; Week 2 - two evenings and three days same mix as above.

Program Overview:
The Safe House program is a short term residential group program for high risk youth that have been exposed to substance, physical and mental abuse, sexual exploitation, physical/mental trauma, etc. This program supports youth to reduce their involvement in high risk behaviours using harm reduction principles and practices including circle of courage philosophy, strength based and resiliency focused assessments, which promote empowerment and stabilization. With counselling and support, youth work on developing skills to manage the high risk activities while working on personal goals in hopes of stabilizing and transitioning to a long term residential program.

Job Summary:
As a Child and Youth Care Worker, you will be responsible for assessing the needs of the youth, goal planning with the youth, providing counselling and teaching basic life skills, while ensuring basic needs are met (food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, safety). The Child and Youth Care Worker creates a safe, warm and positive environment where youth feel welcomed and loved. Other responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Managing a caseload of 1-2 youth and collaborating with their support team
• Developing and overseeing service plans for youth
• Supervising and supporting youth in a residential setting
• Assisting youth to develop positive and healthy relationships with their supports and their community
• Supporting youth through life skills teaching and in-the-moment learning, with a hands-on approach while ensuring you are "meeting the youth where they are at".
• Assisting youth in attending appointments
• Submitting required program documentation with established time-frames
• Performing basic housekeeping and meal preparation duties
• Other duties as required

What This Job Requires:

• A Diploma/Degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience working with youth from a harm reduction, strength based perspective
• Experience with youth in care, residential care, and case management is a requirement of this position.
• Certification or training in Aboriginal Awareness, Abuse Awareness, Standard First Aid, Medication Administration, and Violence/Crisis Intervention is a definite asset.

The ideal candidate will have an organized and compassionate approach to the work, strong teamwork skills, a commitment to developing positive supporting relationships, and experience supporting vulnerable youth. Other qualifications include:

• Proven ability to provide effective communication, collaboration, crisis intervention, and conflict management with youth
• 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
• Demonstrated assessment, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
• Knowledge of the PSECA legislation is also an asset
• Knowledge of community resources is an asset
• Intermediate competency with Microsoft Office and other Agency computer applications
• Demonstrated ability to act with professionalism, confidentiality, and diplomacy
• Proven case documentation and effective information reporting practices
• 2 years of Driving Experience will be an asset.
• Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months

Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

What We Offer:

• The salary for this position is $24.21 - $27.24 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 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.