Term Full-time
Community Living Service Delivery (CLSD), Crisis and Respite Services supports individuals with intellectual disabilities to ensure their physical, emotional, and social needs are met with goal of supporting their independence, living arrangements, and lifestyle as independent as possible.
In this role, you will focus on creating positive, engaging experiences and are accountable to the individual’s receiving services. We are seeking caring and empathetic people who welcome challenges, are proactive, love to learn, embrace change, have a strong work ethic, and enjoy variety in their work while making positive meaningful changes in peoples’ lives. We care about and believe in people. Joining our team means we share a passion for cultivating strong relationships by building trust and delivering quality client-centered services through collaboration, creativity, support, and independence.
This appointment is located at Southwood Home in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. This program offers transitional housing support and planned respite services. The purpose of respite is to maintain the health and well-being of the individual, their care provider and/or family by providing temporary support. Transitional housing is a temporary support for those with immediate housing needs and a safe place where individuals continue to build on their strengths.
In this role, you will support individuals and provide quality person-centered services. Your hands-on work and engagement with the individual is conducted in a learning and supportive manner and utilizes your effective communication, positive role modeling, patience, adaptability, leadership, and organization to assist in completing the following responsibilities:
- Effectively communicate both verbally and in written form;
- Apply standard safety precautions and practices according to established protocols, safety guidelines and existing legislation;
- Work both independently and as a team player to co-operatively accomplish program objectives/goals and create and maintain a positive work environment;
- Anticipate, recognize, and react to conflict situations by exercising sound judgement and resolution; highly motivated, organized, flexible and adaptable to work in a challenging environment; and
- Assist with all activities of daily living and life skills.
What we offer:
CLSD, Crisis and Respite Services value their employees and the work they do. To assist them we provide thorough onboarding that includes safety training required for the position.
Typically, the knowledge required for this position will be gained through experience on the job. However, previous experience working with individuals experiencing intellectual disabilities and/or completion of a Special Care Aide Program would be considered a definite asset. This position may be exposed to the risk of violent situations. Some travel may be necessary.
Our choice candidate is a positive, patient, client focused, non-judgmental, understanding and an empathetic individual, who celebrates diverse opinions, lifestyles and behaviours and strives to help and support all for their betterment.
This is a shift work position in a program that provides person centred care 24 hours/day; 7 days/week. The successful candidate must be legally eligible to operate a vehicle supplied by the Ministry.
Please note, due to the nature of the position employees may be exposed to the risk of violent (behavioural) situations in which PART training reinforces safety concerns and assists in precautionary measures.
The Ministry of Social Services works with citizens as they build better lives for themselves through economic independence, strong families and strong community organizations. We are committed to investing in positive outcomes for people in areas of income support, child and family services, affordable housing, and support for persons with disabilities. Come join our team!
Candidates must clearly indicate in their application, resume, and cover letter how they have acquired the skills and abilities. Applicants are screened based on the information provided.
