Posting #2576

Internal Posting – #2026-BCGEU-2576 Position- Regular Part-Time Location- Amethyst House Title/Grid Level- Awake Residence Child & Youth Worker/ Grid Level 11 Closing Date- August 26th, 2026 Hours of Work/Week- Friday-Saturday 11:30pm-7:30am Wage Rate/Salary$29.22-$33.54 Shift Schedule- 16 Use of Personal Vehicle- On occasion, pending agency provided vehicle availability.

“This position is open to all qualified individuals and this position requires Union membership”

Job Purpose:

The purpose of this position is to assist persons served to live successfully in IDM Youth Services Inc.’s residential Group Home program. This position ensures that the physical, emotional, social, educational, and medical needs of the persons served are met. This position assists persons served to enhance their quality of life with activities of daily living and the development of like skills.

Required Qualifications:

Diploma in a related human/social service field. Two (2) years recent related experience. OR An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Class 5 driver’s license.

Required Abilities:

•Participates in the assessment, goal setting and progress evaluation of persons served •Teaches the persons served socially and culturally appropriate behaviors through the use of daily/nightly routines and activities. •Monitors persons served in a residential setting and ensures their safety and well-being through-out the night. •Follows through on direction regarding specific persons served left by day staff. •Provides transportation to the person served as needed. •Provides trauma informed counselling (through behavior management, Attachment based, relational, or other appropriate service modalities) to persons served on a one-to-one and/or group basis by performing duties such as providing feedback on persons’ served behavior, teaching coping techniques and adaptive behavior and providing guidance and support. •Provides emotional support and crisis intervention to persons served which may include non-violent physical interventions. •Ensure communication and liaison between the home, school, family, supporting professionals, community etc. •Assists persons served with activities of daily/nightly living such as feeding, hygiene, grooming and toileting. •Maintains reports such as logbooks, daily notes, monthly reports, assessments etc. •Carries out all related household duties, including but not limited to meal preparation, grocery shopping, cleaning, organization, etc. Performs minor maintenance. •Gathers information, relevant to the persons served concerns, needs and risks by interviewing, observing behavior, meeting with other caregivers, and service providers and using a variety of inventories, checklists, and questionnaires. Reviews information gathered to identify problems, needs and risks. •Provides life skills training such as meal preparation, housekeeping, personal care skills and personal finance and implements individual care plans. •Appropriately delivers or enables strategies established in the persons served SHSS Service Plan. •Recognizes, analyzes, and deals with potential emergency situations such as aggressive behaviors from persons served to ensure no harm comes to the person served and/or the public. Reports problems to the applicable supports. •Identifies social, economic, recreational and education services in the community that will meet the needs of persons served. •Accompanies persons served to all required outings and activities •Performs other related duties as required. •This position requires the ability to work with challenging persons served with a wide range of behaviors and needs. •This agency provides residential services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This position includes schedules made up of hourly shifts and a potential to work on holidays and weekends. •This position requires the employee to both sit and stand for long periods of time. This position involves working with persons served experiencing extreme mental health and behaviour concerns – physical interventions may be required as needed.

Required performance:

Job performance must be at a satisfactory level and will be assessed in the fulfillment of above relevant job duties, including performance and evaluation reports and disciplinary records in accordance with Article 11.4(d) of the Collective Agreement.

Closing Location:

To apply for this position please email jobs@idmys.ca indicating your interest.

Date Posted:

August 19th, 2026

Closing Date:

August 26th, 2026 Each applicant is responsible for ensuring that IDMYS Inc. receives their application by 7:00am. on the closing date. Any application received past this time will be considered late