Child Youth Care Worker B

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Paradise, NL

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$28.86 - $32.07 / hour

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Zone: Eastern Zone
Location: Youth Treatment Centre Tuckmore

Child Youth Care Worker B
Youth Treatment
Casual Call-In

Hours Based on needs of the department
Salary CG-31 ($28.86 - $32.07 per hour)
Competition Number VAC0004120
Posted Date 2024-11-22
Closing Date Open until filled.
Demands, duties, qualifications
Job Summary
The Child Youth Care Worker B develops and implements therapeutic programs, planned environments and utilizes daily life events to facilitate change with focus on the therapeutic relationship. The incumbent applies theory and research about human growth and development to promote the optimal physical, psycho-social, spiritual, cognitive, and emotional development of young people towards a healthy and productive adulthood, and a focus on strengths and assets rather than pathology. The Child Youth Care Worker plays an integral role in the Youth Treatment Centre, establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with children and youth with complex mental health needs who require long term residential treatment. Intervention focuses on promoting emotional, social and behavioral change and well-being within the context of daily living.

Job Demands
By applying for this job, you acknowledge an understanding that regular requirements and demands of this job include (but are not limited to):
Regularly lifts/moves objects/files up to 10 lbs. and occasionally moves/lifts objects in excess of 50 lbs.
Visual concentration (i.e. conducting security and monitoring of young people; observing non-verbal cues and behaviors, etc.), auditory concentration and strain (i.e. active listening) and other sensory concentration (i.e. using sense of smell to detect drugs, tobacco use, alcohol, or possible fire).

Job Qualifications
Two-year diploma or degree in Child and Youth Care, or a Bachelor's Degree in the Social Sciences is required.
A minimum of three (3) years' experience within the last five (5) working in the field of child and youth care. Experience working with youth in a residential setting is required.
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Children and Youth in Residential Care and Suicide Intervention (ASIST) training is required.
Current First Aid/CPR is required.
Effective communication and team building skills; demonstrate creativity in working with complex youth; be able to utilize a variety of intervention techniques in new and innovative ways.
Membership with the Child and Youth Care Association of Newfoundland and Labrador is an asset.
A satisfactory record of work performance is required

Competition Number: 738941723

Company Website: https://NLHealthServices.ca/

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Full-time and part-time pension plans options.
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Student placements and clinical residencies.
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With a rich and unique culture, and tremendous natural beauty, Newfoundland and Labrador is an ideal place to call home, with a growing diverse population and among the safest places in the world to live.

About NL Health Services

At NL Health Services, we are responsible for delivering health and community services to more than 510,550 people living in Newfoundland and Labrador. Our team consists of more than 22,000 dedicated health workers who are committed to providing the best care in communities across the province, in five geographical areas.

The provincial health authority was created in April 2023, following recommendations from Health Accord NL, and brings together five former separate health entities. Our goal is to improve the health of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador and to create a more integrated, accessible, technologically enhanced, equitable and sustainable health system.

We know that it is the people – employees, physicians and volunteers – that together make NL Health Services a great place to work. We believe that every person carries valuable knowledge, experience and perspective, and it is in this diversity that we find strength. At NL Health Services, we embrace the distinct and complementary characteristics of all our members as we seek to eliminate health disparities by providing fair, equitable and quality health care to all patients, residents and clients.

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