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Youth Worker
Employer
Mariam's Footsteps IncDate Posted
October 30, 2024Languages
English-
Location Edmonton, AB
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Earnings $24.43 to $25.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 30 to 40 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 15  Vacancies
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Closing Date Nov 29, 2024
Employer
Mariam's Footsteps Inc
Languages
English
Education
College/CEGEP
Work site environment
- Education or training
- Early intervention programming for at-risk youth
- Crime prevention
Work setting
- Group home
- Urban area
- Work in employer's/client's home
Tasks
- Prepare reports or case histories
- Administrative and office activities
- Appraise clients' needs or eligibility for specific services
- Conduct social research
- Implement life skills workshops
- Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs
- Develop, co-ordinate and implement the delivery of specific services within the community
- 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
- Develop service intervention logic models and outcome measures
- Maintain program statistics for purposes of evaluation and research
- Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment programs
- Accompany clients to appointments and social outings
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
- 3-4 people
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Judgement
- Client focus
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Team player
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Health benefits
Health care 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
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.
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