Catholic Social Services is currently recruiting for a permanent full-time, 40 hours per week, SIL (Supported Independent Living) Outreach Worker in Edmonton, AB. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community!

Shift schedule will be Monday – Friday and may require the successful candidate to work evening and weekend shifts.

Program Overview: Motivated, organized with good time management skills, you are a part of a self-directed team helping individuals connect to local resources.

Job Summary: A SIL- Outreach Worker is skilled in providing support to individuals & assists them with accessing community resources, developing work skills, improving communication skills and finding supports needed to be a valued part of their community. Your strong problem-solving skills along with the ability to empower individuals to manage regular daily activities and events make you an ideal candidate. Depending on the needs of the program some evening and weekend hours maybe required.

This position includes the requirement of the following skills:

• Ability to provide outreach support to adults with developmental disabilities living independently or semi-independently in the community
• Monitor and review the progress of the individuals
• Establish and maintain connections with community resources
• Support individuals with different aspects of daily living, including but not limited to arranging appointments, transportation and financial support as needed
• Manage a large caseload
• Independent report writing ability and excellent time management skills
• One on one support with recreational activities, like swimming, which requires the worker to partake in these activities.

What This Job Requires:

• Diploma/Degree in Human Services or related discipline (or equivalent)
• A minimum 1 year working with persons with developmental disabilities, behavior, mental health & addictions
• Vulnerable Sector Check issued by RCMP or City Police
• Child Intervention Record Check
• A reliable Vehicle, Valid Driver’s License, Vehicle Registration and Third Party Liability Insurance (amount of two million)
• Driver's Abstract with less than six (6) demerit points current within one (1) year

Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, Intervention Record Check and/ or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

What We Offer:

• The annual salary for this position is $48,859.2 to $51,845.04 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 65 years of service delivery experience, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with nearly 2000 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering over 100 different programs to people in need 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.