Youth specialist Jobs in Toronto, ON

Competition #2024-420-YPS Employment Type : Full-Time, CUPE Bargaining Unit, (6 vacancies)  Work Hours : Shift work Work Setting : Exclusively On-Site Salary : $54,266.47  Application Deadline : December 13, 2024 by 11 : 59 pm

Program Overview – Youth Justice Program

Turning Point Youth Services (TPYS) is an accredited, non-profit agency serving youth (12 to 24 years of age) and their families in the east end of Toronto. Turning Point’s mission is to empower youth to make positive change, an to accomplish this, it offers a continuum of services for youth and their families with a focus on mental health, housing / sheltering, and youth justice. Turning Point Youth Services and WoodGreen Community Services announced on July 2, 2024 the integration of the two organizations. The combination of these two agencies will enable a more effective and integrated approach to the provision of comprehensive support services for youth in the GTA.

The Redwood Program is our new youth justice, congregate care program. It is a 6-bed, gender specific, structured, live-in program for young males involved in the justice system and living with mental health challenges. The goal of the program is to prevent and reduce youth involvement in the criminal justice system and support their reintegration to the community. Youth Workers provide direct, quality client care and supervision to program clients. They provide client-focused and strength-based relationship-based interventions. This program is staffed by at least two Youth Workers at all times.

What You Will Do

• Incorporate in your work a strengths-based relationship-based philosophy of care and a belief in the resilience of youth.
• Provide direct, client care and supervision to clients in the congregate care program.
• Perform the duties of a Primary Worker for assigned clients.
• Promote and integrate Youth and Family Engagement.
• Promote an environment of inclusion that promotes equity and respects diversity.
• Develop and deliver activities and therapeutic programs.
• Ensure the safety and security of the residents in the facility.
• Complete documentation and reports as required.
• Participate in the day-to-day operation of the facility.
• Shift work is required.
• Perform other duties as required.

What You Bring to the Team

What Will Set You Apart

This is a collective bargaining unit position with CUPE Local 3501

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