Overnight Tenant Support Worker - Abbotsford, Canada - Archway Community Services

Archway Community Services

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Abbotsford, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

JOB POSTING #

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

Supportive Housing (Hearthstone Place)

Overnight Tenant Support Worker

Wage:
$28.49 per hour

Part Time: 16 hours per week, Saturday and Sunday, from 11:00PM to 7:00am

Permanent

Provide Support to the Housing Residents to Ensure a Respectful, Safe, Clean, and Supportive Place

Join the team at Archway

Come Help Us Help People

Location:
Abbotsford

Onsite Work

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Supportive Housing Program Supervisor, the Overnight Tenant Support Worker provides a range of front-line support services to the residents.

Tenant Support Workers are part of a team whose mandate is to ensure the building remains a respectful, secure, safe, clean, and supportive place in which to reside, visit and work.

Your Role:

Supporting residents to maintain their residencies, including but not limited to; directly assisting with room decluttering, resident rent contribution payments and/or repayment plans; and connection with community resources/supports.
Recognizing individual strengths (strengthbased) and circumstances and supporting residents in their healthy development, success, and wellbeing and in their selfdetermined goals (case planning).
Stewarding and promoting a culture of learning and respect within the staff team, program, and services.
Assisting with conflict and crisis deescalation as needed.
Performing health and safety checks of the facility, residences, and premises.
Promoting a harm reduction approach to addiction, mental and physical health, and wellbeing.
Promoting positive and inclusive tenantstaff relations.
Promoting linkages and partnership development with local service providers to ensure optimal service delivery to clients (e.g. Fraser Health Authority, Aboriginal Services, Community Corrections Offices, homeless shelters and transition houses, employment service organizations and referral agencies. etc.

This position is a great fit for someone who is dynamic and self-motivated and has empathy and compassion for individuals who are homeless or who are at risk of being homeless.

Our Offer

Wage: $28.49 per hour.
Part time: 16 hours per week, Saturday and Sunday, from 11:00 PM to 7:00 am

Benefits include:

Employee and Family Assistance Program.
Access to online wellness resources.
Build your experience working with those who are homeless or at risk of being homeless.
Great inhouse training opportunities.
Rewarding work in a positive environment.

Getting an Interview - you will be considered if you have:

Post-secondary education in a related field
OR an equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered.
Two to three years' experience in an outreach capacity or within the community services field.

The Job Requires you to have:

The ability to take direction, work with pride and work with mínimal supervision and in consultation with others.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
An understanding of issues surrounding poverty, homelessness, substance abuse and mental health issues.
Strong crises deescalation and dispute resolution skills.
A flexible attitude, ability to adapt to changing situations and duties, and a willingness to work as part of a team.
Ability to effectively switch tasks to respond to interruptions, distractions, and competing priorities.
Ability to interact with people in challenging and/or difficult situations.
Ability to adhere to health and safety protocols in an environment of direct social interaction and engagement with clients and staff.
A satisfactory criminal record check is a condition of employment and must be maintained.

Closing date is May 12, 2024.

TO APPLY

Please submit your cover letter and resume to:
Job Posting #

No phone calls please. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
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We acknowledge that we gather on the traditional and unceded territory of the

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ló territory extends from the mouth of the Fraser River to Boston Bar. Locally, this includes the Matsqui First Nation and Sumas First Nation. We give them thanks for sharing their land and resources with us. _
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We invest in the mental health and wellbeing of our employees._

Job Types:
Part-time, Permanent

Pay:
From $28.49 per hour

Expected hours: 16 per week

Benefits:

Casual dress
Company events
Employee assistance program
Wellness program

Schedule:

8 hour shift
Every Weekend
Night shift
Weekends only

Application question(s):

You need two to three years' experience in an outreach capacity or within the community services field.
A satisfactory criminal record check is a condition of employment and must be maintained.
You must have postsecondary education in a related field OR an equivalent combination of