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Child And Youth Worker
Employer
Vantage Community ServicesDate Posted
May 01, 2025Languages
English-
Location Red Deer, AB
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Earnings $41,192.00 to $52,860.00 annually (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 2  Vacancies
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Closing Date May 31, 2025
Employer
Vantage Community Services
Languages
English
Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Psychology, general
- Psychology, other
- Criminal justice and corrections, other
- Human services, general
- Social work, general
- Criminology
- Sociology
- Social sciences, other
Work site environment
Child welfare
Work setting
- Group home
- Urban area
Tasks
- Prepare reports or case histories
- Administrative and office activities
- Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
- Implement life skills workshops
- Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs
- Housekeeping activities
- Food preparation
- Provide suicide and crisis intervention
- Resolve conflict situations
- Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
- Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
- Assist clients/guests with special needs
- Accompany clients to appointments and social outings
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Mental health first aid Certificate
- Non-violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) Certificate
- Cultural Awareness Training
- Medication Administration Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Food Safety Certificate
Target audience
Adolescents
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Child welfare check
- Driving record check (abstract)
Transportation/travel information
Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Values and ethics
- Client focus
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Team player
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
Experience
Experience an asset
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Night shift premium
- Pension plan
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Interest Codes
- SOCIAL
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Interest in consulting with social assistance recipients and pensioners to advise and aid them in locating and utitizing a variety of community resources; in referring clients to other social services; in counselling clients living in group homes and halfway houses and assisting in pre-release and release planning; in providing crisis intervention and emergency-shelter services; and in co-ordinating volunteer activities of community and social services organizations
- METHODICAL
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Interest in compiling information to participate in the selection and admission of clients to appropriate programs; to assess clients' relevant skill strengths and deficits; and in maintaining contact with other social service agencies and health care providers involved with clients to provide information and obtain feedback on clients' overall progress
- innovative
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Interest in assisting clients to sort out options and develop plans of action, and in implementing and organizing the delivery of life-skills workshops, substance-abuse treatment programs, behaviour management programs, youth services programs and other community and social service programs under the supervision of social workers and health care professionals
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