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Youth Worker
Employer
YOUCAN Youth ServicesDate Posted
April 25, 2022Languages
English-
Location Edmonton, AB
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Earnings $50,000.00 to $56,000.00 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 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date May 25, 2022
Employer
YOUCAN Youth Services
Languages
English
Education
- Bachelor's degree
- or equivalent experience
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
- Cultural Awareness Training
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
- Mental health first aid Certificate
Experience
3 years to less than 5 years
Additional Skills
- Administrative and office activities
- Research techniques
Weight Handling
Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Work Setting
Social service or charity agency
Specific Skills
- Obtain information and prepare reports or case histories
- Implement life skills workshops
- Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
- Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs
- Conduct follow-up assessments
- Provide suicide and crisis intervention
- Resolve conflict situations
- Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
- Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
- Accompany clients to appointments and social outings
Target Audience
- Adolescents
- Aboriginal groups
- Culturally diverse groups
- Young offenders
- Street population
- Females
- Males
Security and Safety
- Child welfare check
- Criminal record check
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
- Valid driver's licence
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
Fast-paced environment
Work Location Information
Work in employer's/client's home
Type of Community or Social Service
- Education or training
- Early intervention programming for at-risk youth
- Crime prevention
Personal Suitability
- Initiative
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Client focus
- Judgement
Health benefits
- Health care plan
- Disability benefits
- Dental plan
- Paramedical services coverage
Long term benefits
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Long-term care insurance
Other benefits
Team building opportunities
How to Apply
Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, the employer will not consider your job application.
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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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