Support Home Contractor (Respite)

Lethbridge Family Services (LFS) is seeking a support home contractor (respite) to join our team! This position will provide support in our DaCapo department. In this role, you will provide support to individuals with intellectual disabilities, brain injuries, and/or fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in your own home. In this role, the client will stay in your home for scheduled weekends and receive a variety of residential supports.

We offer a welcoming, inclusive work environment where people thrive!

Support Home Contractors**:**

• commit to teaching skills that foster independence,

• ensure relationships between the individual and the individual’s support network are maintained,

• provide support to the individual based on the individual’s specific needs,

• assist or guide daily living skills such as safety, hygiene, shopping, household care and money management; providing transportation, arranging and attending medical appointments, and involvement with activities, which promote recreation/leisure, community integration and social interactions, and

• attend regular meetings regarding the individual and complete and submit daily and monthly documentation.

Required skills and qualifications:

• high school diploma and/or two years direct front line experience working with individuals with disabilities preferred,

• a valid driver’s license and reliable vehicle with $2,000,000 liability insurance, and

• previous experience and/or education working with individuals with disabilities.

New workers must provide a police information check and vulnerable sector check dated not less than 90 days prior to the date of hire.

Start date: ASAP

Contact person: Julie Boon

Application deadline: Until suitable candidate is found.

Apply online at www.lfsfamily.ca and reference job posting26DC2A.

Lethbridge Family Services is an accredited social service organization. For more information see www.lfsfamily.ca

Lethbridge Family Services is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, representative of the clients we serve. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and are committed to ensuring that all employment opportunities are inclusive to all people. We thank everyone for their interest in Lethbridge Family Services, however, we only contact the individuals selected to continue in the process.

Lethbridge Family Services eliminates barriers from the recruitment process. If you require support during the hiring process, please contact Human Resources at hradministration@lfsfamily.ca so that supports can be put in place. Private information received in relation to your request for support will be used only to facilitate the recruitment process and shared only as needed with the selection committee.