Competition Number: 1592
Date Posted: February 17, 2023
Job Type: Full Time - Temporary to June 30, 2023 with possibility of extension.
Application Deadline: Until Filled
The Family Centre has a strong reputation for providing quality services basing our work on research and evidence-based practices. We pride ourselves on providing leading-edge training and strong, reflective supervision. Our intention is to create a healthy organization that is intelligent in its response to community issues and intentional about our respectful treatment of each other. We have a strong focus on Trauma-Informed Care for the communities we support, as well as our staff teams. The Family Centre strives to hire a diverse team of employees, reflecting the diverse communities we support. The Family Centre is committed to Indigenous ceremony and practice and welcomes knowledge of ceremony and lived experience.
Mission:
The Family Centre exists to support families and children to help them flourish and to help people engage with one another in order to promote healthy, safe, and economically viable communities.
Vision:
Healthy families in healthy communities.
Success Coach:
The Family Centre is currently hiring energetic individuals interested in working with children as a Success Coach. The Success Coach model is grounded in researched based practice, with intentional activities and intended outcomes. The impact of Success Coaches is that children and youth have increased social-emotional capacity, strengthened resilience, nurturing ecological connections, and see themselves as having the potential for success in school and life; Communities have collaborative access to resources, organizations are educated and mobilized to support, and youth are positively engaged within the community. The position reports to the Supervisor, Community Initiatives at The Family Centre.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor Degree in a Human Services related field or equivalent education
- 2 years’ experience working with youth with complex needs
- Eligibility for membership in a professional organization is an asset
- Proficient communication, caseload management, and facilitation skills
- Experience working with diverse populations
- Ability to work in an integrated partnership with schools, community agencies, and natural support networks
- Computer Literacy including, but not limited to Microsoft and Google products
Attributes:
Successful candidates will demonstrate the following competencies:
- Interpersonal skills to help establish positive working relationships with students, families, natural support networks, and stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment
- Able to be adaptable while establishing clear boundaries, triaging and prioritizing the demands of the role
- Is a self-starter that takes initiative to create and deliver various types of programming including classroom presentations, groups and Professional Learning opportunities for stakeholders
- Able to demonstrate TFC Principles and to be a TFC Brand Ambassador
- Excellent organizational, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to utilize various Practice Guides with youth, such as Child and Youth Resilience Measure, Network mapping and creating SMART goals
- Cultural Humility and Awareness of Indigenous ceremony and ways of being
- Knowledge of and competence in delivering trauma-informed care
- Crisis Management skills and capacity to support individuals in a variety of challenging situations
- Ability to maintain positive wellbeing amongst emotionally demanding and stressful environments through self-care strategies
- Understands the meaning in teachings and values embedded in ceremony, circle processes, and relational accountability
Key Responsibilities:
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Formal caseload
- Meet with child or youth on a 1:1 basis and utilize Practice Guides to identify their natural support system, develop goal(s), increase supportive relationships, aim to reduce sources of stress and strengthen core skills
- Engage caregivers to participate and support their child or youth’s goal(s), healthy development, positive experiences in school and connections with family
- Practice within the Family Centre’s Theory of Change (Relationships, Trauma Informed Care and Resiliency)
Short Term Engagement
- Establish therapeutic relationships through role modelling, mentoring and supporting
- Offer support to students on a short-term basis to learn responsible decision making; conflict resolution, communication and social skills; increase social and emotional competencies; develop healthy boundaries, relationship skills, and strategies for stress management
- Seize opportunities to support youth through relational interactions, activities and play
- Connect youth to beneficial, affordable and sustainable community resources to increase their network of support
Group Work
- Combine the needs of the school with the skill set of the Success Coach to develop and facilitate programming that will be engaging and effective for students
- Support youth to develop a positive identity, cultural awareness, leadership development, life skills, strategies for stress reduction, and promoting wellbeing
Capacity Building
- Facilitate innovative and creative programming to meet the individual needs of the school/program
- Strengthen and promote relationships by empowering and nurturing emotional attachments between the youth, their school and their natural support system
Transition
- Provide opportunities for youth who otherwise would not have the ability to participate in healthy activities over the summer
- Promote a healthy view of education and facilitate success in the school setting by supporting major educational transitions and exploring their future career pathway
Administration
- Complete ongoing data, documentation and caseload requirements by the specified deadlines outlined in the program
What to Expect:
- Training – comprehensive onboarding/orientation process includes service-specific training and agency-wide core training.
- Feedback – a strong supervision model that provides regular formal and informal opportunities for feedback
- Performance coaching – formal and informal coaching regarding the development of personal and professional growth and development.
Compensation:
(Based on full time working hours 36.5 per week; possibility of additional varying Full Time Equivalency positions that may be offered)
The Family Centre is committed to employee well-being and development. The comprehensive compensation package offered to employees reflects those values and is competitive within the marketplace.
- $44,537 to $57,396 annually
- Manulife Health Benefit Plan
- Wellness Program
- 3 weeks’ vacation
- Ongoing paid training
Please send your resume and cover letter to:
Closing Date: Until Filled
The Family Centre thanks all applicants in advance. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. If contacted for an interview, candidates will have the option to participate via video call. The Family Centre is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environment. We will be happy to work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.