Child Youth Care Workers - Red Deer, Canada - CSS
Description
Catholic Social Services is currently seeking casual, part time, and full time Child and Youth Care Workers in Red Deer to join our Children's Residential Services team.
Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your communityJob Summary:
Child and Youth Care Workers provide support within residences for young people that have exceptional, unique and challenging needs and require longer term stabilization, permanency planning and placement, or a transitional placement to further life skill support and development.
- A safe environment and exposure to nurturing healthy relationships that promote positive attachment;
- A physical environment and materials that support the child's or youth's development;
- Nutritious meals and snacks;
- Ageappropriate boundaries and supervision;
- An orderly daily schedule that promotes positive participation in ageappropriate educational, social, recreational, and community activities;
- Basic personal needs.
Opportunities are provided for the child or youth to develop an awareness of and participate in social, cultural and recreational activities.
Education and Qualifications:
- A Diploma/Degree in Disability Services, Social Work or Human Services (or equivalent) is required
- Minimum 2 years' experience working with children and/or youth with complex needs, challenging behaviours and developmental disabilities
- Knowledge of community events considered an asset
- Valid Emergency First Aid/CPR
- Vulnerable Sector Check from local RCMP or city police detachment
- Child Intervention Record Check
- Clear and Current Drivers Abstract
- A vehicle and valid class 5 driver's license requirement to transport clients in your personal vehicle
- Proof of Vehicle Insurance showing $2 million liability coverage
- Proof of Vehicle Registration for insured vehicle
What We Offer:
- The compensation for this position is $22.72 to $24.26 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
- Flexible benefit options when eligible.
- Work within a highly collaborative, teamoriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
About Catholic Social Services:
CSS is 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 50 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1800 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.
We welcome and celebrate the diversity of our employees and volunteers who choose to work with our Agency in support of our mission, values, and principles.
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 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.
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