LOCATION: SUDBURY, ON.

CANDIDATES MUST LIVE WITHIN SERVICE AREA.

COVER LETTER NEEDS TO BE SENT WITH RESUME.

Applicants are encouraged to visit our website at www.kgcfs.org/employment to review the job description.

Include in your application a cover letter, resume, and (3) three reference letters - two (2) employment related from recent employers. Please also detail in your application: education, employment experience, and cultural participation.

KGCFS is a designated Children`s Aid Society delivering Child Protection Services within seven member First Nations in the Districts of Sudbury and Manitoulin. KGCFS honours and supports our families’ and community’s inherent authority to care for their children based on unity, traditions, values, belief, and customs. Preference will be given to Anishinaabe Candidates, please self-identify in your application.

Starting Salary: $66,077.

OVERVIEW:

The Child and Youth Worker is responsible for sharing the duties of a caregiver for children and youth within the Kingsway Home. The Child and Youth Worker will implement behavioural programming, provide support services, life skills coaching while creating a safe environment. The Child and Youth Worker will provide opportunities for secure attachment, develop the children and youth’s capacity to regulate their own emotions, and foster youth to become resilient, healthy individuals while working in accordance with the Child, Youth, and Family Services Act, Ministry Standards, Agency Policies and Procedures and First Nation community codes of conduct.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Two (2) year Social Service Worker, Child and Youth Worker diploma, or other diploma in the social services field with relevant experience.
• Experience in working within Anishinabe Child and Family Well-Being Services is preferred or proven experience in working with Anishinabek people.
• Provide a clear Police Records Check and/or Vulnerable Sector Screening Check (As determined by the police department).
• Possess a valid standard First Aid/CPR certificate or be willing to obtain one.
• Have a class ‘G’ Ontario Driver’s License, an acceptable Drivers Abstract, access to a reliable vehicle and be able to travel. A requirement of $1M Liability Insurance is required if you transport clients.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide in home support that will include weekends and overnight shifts.
• Implement behaviour plans.
• Empower children and youth to set goals to make positive change.
• Participate in joint case assessment, planning, and service provision.
• Continually assess the strengths and needs of children and youth, while supporting the caregiver, participate in Family circles, Family Conferencing, and Alternative Dispute Resolution processes.
• Support the caregiver to create an ongoing safe and nurturing environment.
• Identify and work with children and youth displaying high risk behaviours.
• Support children with cognitive, intellectual, and behavioral delays.
• Coordinate services to meet the child/youth’s physical, social, emotional, cultural, spiritual, and recreational needs.
• Role model behavior that will support positive change for youth with behavioral and emotional challenges.
• Support treatment planning through identification and development of treatment opportunities for Cognitive Behavioral, Exposure, Land Base and Mindfulness therapeutic strategies and ensuring they are grounded in culture.
• Coordinate the management of predetermined rewards, privileges and consequences of a structured behavioral management plan.
• Use strength based, creative and highly engaging activities grounded in culture to improve behavioral management skills, communication skills, critical thinking, coping skills, problem solving and study skills.
• Ensure Agency compliance with Ministry of Child and Youth Services Serious Occurrence directive and reporting requirements.
• Support Alternative Caregivers in problem solving and crisis intervention strategies.
• Intervene at the first indicators of placement stress to help stabilize Alternative caregivers and prevent placement disruption.
• Report emergencies such as runaways, accidents or medical problems.
• Building healthy relationships with the children and youth by building and maintaining healthy relationships.
• Dispense and logging of youth prescribed medication.
• Work collaboratively with all agency staff, biological parent(s) and caregiver(s), extended family and the member First Nations as required within your respective position of service.
• Create an anti-oppressive work environment while modeling respect, professionalism and act as a positive role model with integrity.
• Will complete a Historical Awareness / Self- Assessments and develop an Individual Wholistic Wellness Plan including a Competency Based Assessment Tools to develop a Cultural Training Plan and passport with intent to monitor wellness and enhance and measure cultural congruencies.
• Will actively participate in agency sponsored cultural training, staff development and educational opportunities, cultural activities, events and ceremonies with intent to enhance cultural congruencies.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Given the traditional practices of the Anishinabek, from time-to-time exposure to wood smoke and the burning of sacred medicines, including tobacco, sweet grass, sage, or cedar, may occur within the work setting.

Candidates must live in within service area.

Applications are accepted and in the following order of preference: by email, mail, or website at:

• Human Resources - Confidential.
• CHILD AND YOUTH WORKER
• Kina Gbezhgomi Child and Family Services.
• 98 Pottawatomi Avenue.
• Wikwemikong, Ontario, P0P 2J0
• Email: applications@kgcfs.org.

KGCFS We are committed to providing a barrier-free work environment in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in the recruitment process. Miigwetch for your application, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to submit the following: satisfactory Criminal Reference Check (within 3 months of application date), Vulnerable Sector Check and Driver’s Abstract.