Direct Care Worker (Live-In Treatment)
Reporting to:
Live-In Treatment Supervisor
Summary:
Provide care and support to a group of up to eight youth with identified mental health issues and behavioral difficulties in a live-in treatment setting, ensuring their physical, emotional and mental well-being by maintaining a safe environment, developing supportive professional relationships, building on client strengths, promoting growth through teaching and modeling new and/or more effective adaptive skills.
Competencies:
- Adaptability - adapts and responds to changing conditions, priorities, technologies and requirements including intense and stressful situations
- Client-focused - provides superior service to clients including youth and their caregivers
- Communication - expresses and transmits information verbally and in writing with consistency and clarity, dealing pleasantly and effectively with a wide range of people of different ages, ethnicities and cultures in potentially emotionally charged situations
- Cultural Sensitivity - promotes an inclusive environment
- Problem Solving - able to analyze situations, identify key issues, develop and implement practical solutions in complex situations and mitigate safety concerns using the available tools and information to support decisions and solutions
- Professionalism - demonstrates professional standards of conduct
- Outcomes Oriented - able to focus on desired outcomes using a solution-focused approach
- Teamwork - works cooperatively and effectively with others and participates actively in group activities fostering a team environment
- Flexibility; able to respond appropriately to changing working conditions and scheduling
Job Duties:
- Create and maintain a normalized living environment that is safe and secure
- Provide consistent structure with reasonable expectations
- Respect and protect the rights of clients, including privacy, dignity, independence, autonomy and self- determination and the choice and practice of individual values, beliefs, religion, and cultural practices.
- Maintain appropriate personal boundaries
- Maintain professional appearance, demeanor, and attitude at all times
- Model and encourage the development of adaptive skills including anger management, conflict resolution and problem-solving
- Encourage open communication, listen, encourage, nurture and validate feelings
- Support the implementation of service plans and report progress
- Implement safety plans and de-escalate and contain serious maladaptive behavior to ensure all clients and staff are safe and to limit destruction of property using Understanding and Managing Aggressive Behavior techniques
- Act as an advocate for youth as necessary
- Dispense medications following proper procedure and reporting requirements
- Support clients and the teacher in the residentially based classroom
- Participate in recreation, craft and social activities which may involve transporting clients
- Record information using logs books, write reports, track petty cash expenditures
- Maintain professional appearance, demeanour, and attitude at all times
- Report any known or suspected incidents of abuse to the proper authorities
- Work cooperatively with collateral agencies
- Perform household duties including grocery shopping, cooking, laundry, minor repairs, decorating with and for clients
- Attend and participate in team meetings, in-service trainings, and professional development opportunities
- Participate in supervision as well as annual performance reviews
Job Requirements:
- At a minimum, a diploma in a Child and Youth Care, Social Service or Human Services Worker program from a provincially recognized college or an equivalent as determined by the agency using the OCSWSSW Registered Social Service Worker equivalents.
- Related experience and ability to work with children, youth and their families/caregivers
- Clear police check and vulnerable sector screening
- Valid Class G driver's license with a clean driving abstract
- Valid UMAB, CPR and First Aid Certification
Working Conditions:
- Work hours and schedules set by the Supervisor and as described in the Collective Agreement including days, afternoons, nights, weekends, and statutory holidays
- Perform work in various program settings including the live-in treatment setting, agency vehicle, classroom, or in the community.
- Duties are frequently conducted outdoors during all seasons.
- Use an agency credit card, retaining and submitting receipts
- Drive agency vehicle as necessary
- Maintain certifications in UMAB and Standard First Aid/CPR
- Intermittent physical activity including walking, standing, sitting, lifting, and supporting clients
The above job description reflects the major aspects of the job and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all work requirements inherent in the job. All positions may be assigned other job-related duties as required from time to time.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: From $25.75 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Minden Hills, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
