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Job Details

Support Worker - Social Services

Employer

Peak Support Services

Date Posted

January 10, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Lethbridge, AB
  • Earnings $18.84 hourly
  • Work Hours 37.5 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 2  Vacancies
  • Closing Date Jan 24, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Peak Support Services

Languages

English

Education

No degree, certificate or diploma

Work site environment

  • Education or training
  • Programs dealing with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Programs dealing with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

Work setting

  • Social service or charity agency
  • Associations and non profit organizations

Tasks

  • Prepare reports or case histories
  • Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
  • Implement life skills workshops
  • Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs
  • Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
  • Assist clients/guests with special needs
  • Accompany clients to appointments and social outings

Supervision

1 to 2 people

Target audience

  • Persons who are blind/visually impaired
  • Persons who are deaf/hard of hearing
  • Persons with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
  • Persons with an intellectual disability
  • Persons with learning disabilities
  • Persons with mental health disabilities
  • Persons with physical disabilities

Computer and technology knowledge

Electronic mail

Area of work experience

Community service organization

Security and safety

  • Bondable
  • Criminal record check
  • Driver's validity licence check
  • Driving record check (abstract)

Transportation/travel information

  • Own transportation
  • Own vehicle
  • Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Ability to work independently
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail

Weight handling

Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal suitability

  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Values and ethics
  • Client focus
  • Excellent written communication
  • Flexibility

Screening questions

Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

Experience

1 to less than 7 months

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • As per collective agreement
  • Mileage paid

Other benefits

  • Free parking available
  • Learning/training paid by employer
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
  • Team building opportunities

Support for persons with disabilities

Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities

Support for Indigenous people

Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Support Worker - Social Services is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Community and Social Service Workers
SOCIAL

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

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

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

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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