child and youth worker
Calvary Child and Family Services Inc.
Pickering, ON, CA
$36.8K-$46.8K a year (estimated)
Full-time
- Durée de l'emploi : Occasionnel
- Langue de travail : Anglais
- Heures de travail : 4 to 44 hours per week
- Education :
- Expérience :
Education
- College / CEGEP
- Child care and support services management
- Developmental services worker
- Social work, other
- Mental health counselling / counsellor
- Mental and social health services and allied professions, other
- Maternal and child health
Work site environment
- Child welfare
- Dangerous
- Personal and social adjustment and health (substance abuse, gambling, behaviour disorders)
- Early intervention programming for at-risk youth
- Services for pregnant teens
- Programs dealing with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Programs dealing with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Work setting
- Group home
- Work in employer's / client's home
- Community agency
- Various locations
- Women's shelter
- Women's drop-in centre
- School help service
- Mental health institution, facility or clinic
- Youth drop-in centre
- Children's services facility
- Community centre
- Private residence
- Public school
- Before and after school programs
Tasks
- Prepare reports or case histories
- Administrative and office activities
- Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
- Perform administrative tasks
- Implement life skills workshops
- Supervise terms of probation orders
- Develop, co-ordinate and implement the delivery of specific services within the community
- Housekeeping activities
- Food preparation
- Provide suicide and crisis intervention
- Resolve conflict situations
- Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses
- Supervise children's visits with parents to ensure their safety
- Implement substance abuse treatment programs
- Implement behaviour management programs
- Assist clients / guests with special needs
- Accompany clients to appointments and social outings
- Offer mentoring
Supervision
No supervision responsibility
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Understanding and managing aggressive behaviour (UMAB) course
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
Computer and technology knowledge
- Electronic mail
- MS Office
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Child welfare check
- Driving record check (abstract)
- Medical exam
Transportation / travel information
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Willing to travel
- Willing to travel regularly
- Valid driver's licence
- Travel expenses paid by employer
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Tight deadlines
- Attention to detail
- Large workload
Weight handling
Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Values and ethics
- Client focus
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Team player
- Organized
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
Experience
Experience an asset
Workplace information
- On the road job
10 days ago