Overview
Youth Worker, Live-In Treatment/YPS Jobs in Old Toronto, Canada at WoodGreen Community Services
Position: Youth Worker, Live-In Treatment (2024-487-YPS)
Location: Old Toronto
Competition #-YPS
Youth Worker
-YPS)
Employment Type:Full-Time, CUPE Bargaining Unit
Work Hours:Shift work
Work Setting:Exclusively On-Site
Salary:$54,266.47
Final date to receive applications:January 30, 2025 by 11:59 pm
Program Overview – Live-In Treatment Program
Turning Point Youth Services (TPYS) is an accredited, non-profit agency serving youth (12 to 24 years of age) and their families in the east end of Toronto. Turning Point’s mission is to empower youth to make positive change. To accomplish this, it offers a continuum of services focusing on mental health, housing/sheltering, and youth justice. Turning Point Youth Services and Wood Green Community Services announced on July 2, 2024, the integration of the two organizations.
This combination will enable a more effective and integrated approach to providing comprehensive support services for youth in the GTA.
Using a trauma-informed approach within a milieu setting, we have two supportive live-in treatment programs for youth ages 12 to 17. These youth come to us with complex mental health issues, including developmental needs and underlying challenges whose needs cannot be served using a community-based approach. Staff also provide family counselling where possible to support the youth in their treatment goals.
We offer short-term/transitional services designed to stabilize, assess, and recommend next steps, as well as longer-term services in which the end-date is determined by the completion of agreed-upon treatment goals or age.
What You Will Do
Incorporate a strengths-based, relationship-based philosophy of care and a belief in theresilienceof youth.
Provide direct client care and supervision to clients in the congregate care program.
Perform the duties of a Primary Worker for assigned clients.
Promote and integrate Youth and Family Engagement.
Promote an environment ofinclusionthat respectsdiversity.
Develop and deliver activities and therapeutic programs.
Ensure the safety and security of the residents in the facility.
Complete documentation and reports as required.
Participate in the day-to-day operation of the facility.
Shift work is required.
Perform other duties as required.
What You Bring to the Team
University or College degree and/or diploma in Child & Youth Work and/or Bachelor of Social Work.
1 year of work experience with youth in a live-in treatment/congregate care setting.
Demonstrated understanding of the complex issues and challenges facing our clients.
Demonstrated knowledge and experience with at-risk adolescents and young adults.
Ability to exerciseprofessionalismand sound judgement in conflictual and stressful situations.
Excellent interpersonal andconflict resolutionskills.
Excellentcommunication, organization, administrative, and computer skills.
Able to work well as part of a team.
Valid “Understanding and Managing Aggressive Behaviour” certification.
Valid “First Aid/CPR” certification.
Completion of required suicidepreventionand intervention training.
Ontario G driver’s license and comfort driving agency vehicle considered an asset.
What Will Set You Apart
Appreciationof the importance of engaging youth and families from a strength-based, relationship-based approach.
Sensitivity to, and ability to work with, adiverseclient and staff group.
Ability to demonstrate an anti-oppression …
Title: Youth Worker, Live-In Treatment/YPS
Company: WoodGreen Community Services
Location: Old Toronto, Canada
Category: Social Work, Non-Profit
