Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a position, 37.5 per week, Overnight Case Worker (Corrections) in EDMONTON to join our Elpida CODS 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 Case Worker, you will work closely with the Team Leader to ensure all aspects of program delivery are met, as well as in assisting clients in identifying and solving the practical problems involved in their successful reintegration into the community. 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 you’re your good decision- making abilities, you respond to difficult client behaviour on a non-reactive manner.

You have the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.

What This Job Requires:

• A Diploma in Corrections, Human Services or Social Services (or equivalent).
• One (1) year of experience in corrections (would be an asset) to prepared you for this challenging and rewarding position.
• An Enhanced Police Information Check and Intervention Record Check are conditions of employment and are the financial responsibility of the candidate.

What We Offer:

• The hourly for this position is $23.621 to $26.589 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.

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.