Housing Worker - Toronto, Canada - Fred Victor

Fred Victor

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

beBee Recruiter

Description

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

Job Title:
Housing Worker - Day

Position Type:
Full-Time, Permanent, Bargaining Unit

Number of Positions:1***
Rate: $26.52

Vacation:4 weeks
to start

Benefits:
Group benefits with Life Insurance, AD&D, Extended Health and Dental Care with premiums 100% paid by the
employer, LTD with premiums 100% paid by employees; paid sick leave and float day

RRSP:
RRSP with 6.5% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution after successful completion of probation

Hours:37.5 hours per week working every
Monday to Friday - 8:30am to 4:30pm***
Supervisor:Senior Manager of Kingston Rd Housing***
Posting Date: January 20, 2023

Application Deadline:
February 3, 2023

Location: 4626 Kingston Road, Scarborough, ON, M1E 2P6

Why Fred Victor?

For over 125 years, Fred Victor has been a leader in providing place and purpose to people in need in Toronto.

Our
mission is to improve the health, income and housing stability of people experiencing poverty and homelessness.
We are
committed to ending chronic homelessness. This is an ambitious and bold goal but we believe, achievable.

Kingston Road Housing
-provides safe deeply affordable housing for single people who are experiencing poverty,
chronic homelessness and often the long-term effects of trauma, social isolation, varying degrees of mental health
and substance use. Kingston Road Housing provides Housing with supports, including case management, on site 24
hours per day, 7 days per week. We work from a client centered, harm reduction, trauma informed, anti-oppressive
framework.

Does this sound like work you want to be a part of?
We offer a supportive environment, an opportunity to join a diverse team of caring professionals and a chance to
make a difference. With over 60 programs and services and more than 21 sites, there are lots of opportunities to
grow your career with us. Many members of the management team started in relief and front-line roles.

What You Will Do

The focus of the position is to work with chronically homeless tenants to access and maintain their affordable

housing.

Encourage tenant participation in the development of short

- and long-term goals, community development

strategies, using a facilitative management approach to encourage tenants to reach their goals, maintain their
housing and to take responsibility for their lives and for the safety and enjoyment of their housing.

Provide a welcoming, friendly and professional Front Desk for Housing and keep the Housing Office open as

often as possible. This includes but is not limited to answering the phones, fielding tenant questions and
concerns, signing in guests, signing out keys, taking work orders, crisis intervention, assisting with tenant
medication, giving notices to tenants and liaising with other workers and professionals.

Utilize trauma informed community development, facilitative management, and conflict resolution approaches

to facilitate supportive, co-operative living and support tenants to develop skills to live cooperatively in their
accommodation.

Provide intake, assessment and case management services, utilizing a clientcentered, strengthbased,

harm reduction approach to clients

Maintain a caseload of 58 lower need clients
Deal with housing related issues such as; behaviors, social isolation, mental health, substance use, hygiene and

others, by encouraging and supporting tenants to problem solve and to access community resources such as
support agencies and other Fred Victor programs and services.

Identify, intervene in and deescalate crisis situations and work with tenants to develop crisis management skills

What You Bring to the Team

Strong understanding of systems that cause and support homelessness, poverty and discrimination and respect

- for those realities.

Welldeveloped interpersonal skills that will produce effective, productive and appropriate relationships with

- the tenants, community, external agencies and staff at Fred Victor.

Experience working with people who are actively using substanc
es from a harm reduction lens**
This position will use a trauma informed, harm reduction, client centered, antioppressive approach to all of

their work. This position requires respect for, and expertise working with, tenants who are facing mental
and physical health issues, active substance use, history of trauma, abuse and social isolation and who come
from racially and ethnically diverse background

What Sets You Apart

Demonstrated experience in conflict resolution and crisis management
Extensive experience working with people who come from diverse racial, gender, ethnic and cultural backgrounds

- and who have experienced varying degrees of mental health, social isolation and substance use