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Business: Children Matter Community Services
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Children Matter Community Services

Is looking for a Child and Youth Worker

$27.54 per hour

Responsibilities

• Ensures safety and well-being of children and youth at the Care Setting
• Actively works to get to know children and youth better and to gather information about their needs; and providing updated information on an ongoing basis to the program manager.
• Participates in children’s and youth’s assessments, Goal/Strategy setting, and program planning (where appropriate), and supports documenting, monitoring, and measuring progress.
• Appropriately delivers or enables strategies established in children’s and youth’s Service Plan.
• Teaches and strengthens children’s and youth’s skills in a socially and culturally appropriate manner through the use of daily routines and activities.
• Provides Trauma-informed care (through behavior management, attachment-based, relational or other appropriate evidence informed modalities) to children and youth on a one-to-one and/or group basis by performing duties such as providing feedback on behaviour, teaching coping techniques and adaptive behaviour, and providing guidance and support.
• Provides care to children and youth with mild to exceptional support needs in a staffed-resource setting, including children and youth with behavioral challenges.
• Provides emotional support and crisis intervention to children and youth, which may include non-violent physical interventions.
• Supports children’s and youth’s community inclusion (e.g. home, school, activities, family, the community).
• Ensures that children’s and youth’s physical needs are met by performing duties such as assisting with basic physical hygiene, preparing meals, and administering medications as required in accordance with established policy, guidelines, procedures and instructions.
• Maintains reports and other documentation such as logbooks, charts, daily activities on residents.
• Accompanies children and youth to appointments and community outings.
• Supervise and engage with children and youth in various activities- Plan and implement educational and recreational programs for children- Provide guidance and support to children in their personal and social development- Create a safe and inclusive environment for children to learn and grow- Collaborate with other youth workers to coordinate activities and events- Maintain accurate records of attendance, incidents, and program evaluations.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Class 5 unrestricted Driver's License (Required)
• Valid Level 1 First Aid Certificate (Required)
• Minimum of three professional references, including your most recent employer
• Consolidated Criminal Record Check (CCRC)
• A minimum 2-year relevant diploma, or equivalent of education/experience working with children and youth with behavioral and other needs.
• Specific training in behavioral modification, attachment-based parenting, and relationship-based interventions (Trauma-informed practice)

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