Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a 40 hour position for a Placement Coordinator/Foster Care Worker for our Edmonton Foster Care 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 40 hours, flexible schedule based on the needs of the foster family’s, events including evening and weekends.

Job Summary:
As a Placement Coordinator in the Foster Care Program, you will coordinate and implement support services to individual clients and foster families as identified in the service plan and agency standards. This includes conducting initial assessments, service planning, and follow up meetings to verify that the needs and requirements of clients and foster families are being met. You will provide hands on support to foster parents as they navigate the needs of the children in their care and provide support to facilitate connections for foster families to external resources. This position acts as a point of contact for various support services agencies and as an advocate for clients, families, and foster parents.

What This Job Requires:

• Diploma or Degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working with individuals with emotional and behavioral needs
• Experience supporting individuals with complex and high behaviours
• Valid First Aid and CPR is considered an asset
• Vulnerable Sector Check
• Child Intervention Record Check
• Clear and Current Driver's Abstract
• A vehicle and valid class 5 driver's license
• Proof of Vehicle Insurance showing $2 million liability coverage
• Proof of Vehicle Registration for insured vehicle
• Required 2 years of Driving Experience

What We Offer:

• The annual compensation for this position is $54,100.08 to $60,927.84 and is based on qualifications and experience.
• 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.