Settlement Worker in Schools (SWIS) - Camrose AB

Location: AHC Small Centres – Camrose

Department: Small Centres

Employment Type: Full-Time

Minimum Experience: Experienced, non-manager (2+ years’ experience)

Compensation: $30.00 per hour

Background

The Action for Healthy Communities (AHC) is a non-profit charitable organization working in Alberta since 1995 to strengthen community capacity and build healthier and stronger communities. The AHC’s objective is to improve the lives of individuals and communities in which they live through provision of public education and other capacity building initiatives to enable them to enhance their own lives.

Job Summary

AHC’s Small Centres, Camrose location is recruiting to fill a temporary (10 month) full time position as part of our SWIS staff supporting newcomers in schools in the Camrose and area school divisions. We are looking for a compassionate, motivated professional to support immigrants and refugees (newcomers) in Camrose, Alberta. The applicant will join a tight-knit and committed team of professionals working in rural communities throughout Alberta. The job is based out of AHC’s Camrose office, within the Camrose & District FCSS (4821 51 St, Camrose, AB T4V 1R9). Due to our client population, it is essential for the candidate to be able to physically meet clients at the office on a regular basis.

The Settlement Worker in Schools (SWIS) staff offers school and community-based settlement service to newcomers with information, orientation, community connection, needs assessment, and skills development to facilitate support in newcomers’ integration process. In school settings, the SWIS staff will assist newcomer students and their families with essential services required to support their immediate and on-going needs. In the community setting, the SWIS staff will reach out to newcomers who are hard to reach to provide timely, appropriate settlement support.

This role participates in creating meaningful and supported engagement opportunities that directly impact the realities and challenges of integration for newcomers for them to fully develop their character, potential and create hope filled lives and futures in Canada.

Responsibilities include:

• Client Service

  • Conduct intakes to support comprehensive needs/assets assessments with newcomers including youth, families, and individual adult newcomers.
  • Work with clients to develop their settlement and adaptation action plans, facilitate client’s capacity development and assist them to engage in strategies to act on their plans.
  • Provide individual and group supports including information, orientation, interpretation, translation, accompaniment to services and client mediation.
  • Organize, develop, and facilitate group sessions based on client needs.

• Collaboration and System Support

  • Facilitate internal and external referrals and work collaboratively with partner delivery agencies and community support systems to address clients’ needs
  • Arrange and facilitate activities and events for newcomer children and families in the community (i.e., cultural events, sports, opportunities for networking and socializing with other newcomers and new Canadians);
  • Explore opportunities to collaborate with other Small Centres staff to support event planning between communities—for example, trips to cultural sites or community connection events.
  • Maintain regular contact and open communication with partner service delivery agencies to monitor, discuss and evaluation clients’ cases.
  • Attend inter-agency meetings to share program experiences as well as develop new collaborations
  • Act as a point of contact between AHC, teachers and principals regarding the discussion of youth behaviour, program implementation and facilitation
  • Promote programs on each site and in the surrounding community, including the delivery of promotional materials, organizing and running information sessions
  • Connect clients to AHC events, activities and workshops (i.e. promote AHC services in the community; follow-up with clients to maintain access to AHC and other community services) and help newcomers connect to people in their communities
  • Reach out to service providers and community groups, to foster collaborations with mainstream agencies, municipality departments, and community groups to support newcomer’s integration

• Program Planning and Capacity Building Supports

• With the Manager’s leadership, support the ongoing program planning, monitoring, evaluation, learning and continuous improvement measures to ensure AHC’s Small Centres services and programming are current and responsive to the needs of clients and the local rural centre’s needs.

• Support the development, ongoing tracking, and updates of the Small Centre’ Program Implementation Plans (PIP)

• Proactively evaluate the effectiveness of services delivered by conducting client and partners’/stakeholders’ evaluations, administering one-on-one and group evaluations to understand clients’ experience with supports and services they receive.

• Conduct ongoing assessments, review and outcome measurement of Community engagement activities; gather participants feedback to identify areas of improvement and necessary follow up

• Administrative Tasks

  • Maintain clients’ confidentiality and privacy rights.
  • Ensure consent forms and intake forms are completed and digitized, consistent with organizational standards.
  • Prepare reports as required (client intake, number of clients served, client progress, etc.)
  • With the manager’s guidance, support budget management for Camrose-area services (client transportation, materials and supplies, and cost of events)

Qualifications

• Class 5 drivers’ license and own vehicle is required. Please state in your cover letter if you have a drivers’ license and your own vehicle. Driver’s abstract will be required.

• Living in or near Camrose, Alberta (within 50km of the community) is required. Please include your address in the cover letter.

• Undergraduate degree in Social Work, Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Community Development, Public Policy or a related field.

• Demonstrated ability to build meaningful relationships (with clients from different cultures, with service providing agencies, and with local community leaders).

• Experience working with vulnerable people (children, youth, seniors, people with disabilities, racialized groups) is a significant asset.

• Experience working with newcomers is a significant asset.

• Knowledge of Camrose and area agencies, communities, and services is a significant asset.

• Proficiency in additional languages is a significant asset

• Lived experience as a newcomer is an asset, but not required.

• First Aid Certification an asset.

If selected, a clear criminal record check with vulnerable sector check will be required as a condition of employment.

Working Conditions:

• Most work will occur in an office setting.

• The applicant will need to work in community settings as needed, such as schools, libraries, and community hubs.

• The applicant will need to drive in rural Alberta to provide services to clients as needed.

Please apply with a resume and cover letter.

Deadline: August 1, 2025