Case Worker - WEAC - #453206
E4C
Date: 13 hours ago
City: Edmonton, AB
Contract type: Full time
The Case Worker role at WEAC (Women's Emergency Accommodation Centre) includes various responsibilities to assist people who identify as women, aged 18+ years of age, and are seeking support to end homelessness. WEAC employs a wrap-around staffing approach with a community-based focus on recovery and sustained stabilization for women. Utilizing a trauma-informed, indigenous worldview, and strength-based approach, the Case Worker supports women in developing essential life skills, achieving self-identified wellness goals, and accessing social support. They work alongside women to explore desired lifestyles, provide support to achieve personal goals and ensure basic needs are met with dignity and respect.
This role is part of a multi-disciplinary team, working together, alongside the women, to help them achieve their pathway to housing, navigating challenges, and fostering empowerment and resilience within the community.
Key Responsibilities
Service Delivery
Prior to successful employment with e4c, applicants are required to submit a Police Information Check with Vulnerable Sector Check and Intervention Record Check (IRC).
This role is part of a multi-disciplinary team, working together, alongside the women, to help them achieve their pathway to housing, navigating challenges, and fostering empowerment and resilience within the community.
Key Responsibilities
Service Delivery
- Utilize relationship-based approaches to teach a spectrum of basic life skills during the day and wellness skills on evenings and weekends, to aid the women at WEAC in their pathway to housing.
- Support women, to navigate appropriate social and health systems, with a focus on enhancing their natural connections, to reach a point of stabilization and improve well-being.
- Maintain the overall cleanliness and organization of the building, including completing program laundry, stripping, and cleaning bed spaces when women leave and assisting kitchen staff as necessary, to enable a clean and safe environment.
- Cultivate community within WEAC and develop positive external community relations.
- Foster a judgement free, fun, and engaging environment conducive to growing and learning for all women.
- Produce high quality, complete and timely program documentation ensuring safe and seamless delivery of services at WEAC.
- Ensure organization for complete and concise storing of women’s files.
- Provide timely reporting of signs, symptoms, and changed circumstances of the women, to members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective wrap around services and responses.
- Minimum Two-Year Diploma in Human Services field
- 1+ years of experience working with marginalized or vulnerable populations.
- Background and experience working with people requiring higher levels of support due to
- trauma, addictions, mental illness, and/or poverty.
- Full competency and experience with harm reduction, person-centered, trauma-informed, strength based, collaborative, and/or solution focused practice.
- Experience using evidence-based models of practice.
- Proficient and skilled with computer use and Microsoft office database entry.
- Competitive Salary
- 3 Weeks Vacation
- Robust Benefits Package
- RRSP Matching
- Paid Sick Time
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Health Spending Account
Prior to successful employment with e4c, applicants are required to submit a Police Information Check with Vulnerable Sector Check and Intervention Record Check (IRC).
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