Program Assistant - Replacement Worker

Program Overview:

You will be working in a Federal Halfway House whose primary focus is to assist the clients in making a successful transition to a responsible community life.

Job Summary:

As a Program Assistant, you are a team player who is dedicated to the supervision, support, assessment, and counselling of men or women on parole from federal institutions.

Supporting daily living, you have the ability to develop client relationships that are based on mutual respect.

You have strong verbal communication skills and the ability to write clear, precise, and detailed case reports.

Using your good decision-making abilities, you respond to difficult client behaviour in a non-reactive manner.

You have the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.

What This Job Requires:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• One year of experience working in the human service field
• Training and experience with corrections, addictions, and the criminal justice system or adult offenders are preferred.
• Enhanced Security Check and Child Intervention Record Check

Enhanced Security Check and Intervention Record Check are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

What We Offer:

• The hourly rate for this position is $21.539 to $22.851 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
• We offer flexibility and a supportive working environment.
• Comprehensive benefit options when eligible
• Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
• Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative, and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.

About Catholic Social Services:

You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion, and respect.

With 65 years of service delivery experience, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with nearly 2000 staff and hundreds of volunteers delivering over 100 different programs to people in need throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.

Our values are at the core of everything we do!

• Humility : We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
• Compassion : We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
• Respect : We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.

We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted

Catholic Social Services is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce. In an effort to enrich our agency and reflect the communities we serve, we welcome applications from qualified individuals of all diverse groups and backgrounds.