Group Home Worker (Personal Support Worker)
Terms of Employment: Permanent, Part Time, On Call, Shift, Overtime, Weekend, Day
Salary: $10.00 Hourly for 15 hours per week, Other Benefits, As per collective agreement, Mileage Paid
Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
Location: Fredericton, New Brunswick (5 vacancies )
Skill Requirements:
Education: Completion of high school, Completion of college/CEGEP/vocational or technical training, Some university, Completion of university
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.): Community Support Worker (CSW) Diploma, Human Services Diploma, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), Non-violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) Certificate, First Aid Certificate
Experience: Experience an asset
Work Setting: Group home
Target Groups or Clients: Male, Female, Persons with intellectual disabilities, Persons with physical disabilities, Persons with mental health disabilities, Persons with learning disabilities
Type of Community or Social Service: Personal and social adjustment and health (substance abuse, gambling, behaviour disorders), Socio-economic needs or conditions (housing, nutrition, unemployment, financial assistance)
Specific Skills: Assess client's relevant skill strengths and development needs, Provide suicide and crisis intervention, Resolve conflict situations, Supervise activities of clients living in group homes and half-way houses, Implement behaviour management programs, Provide personal services support to persons with special needs, Liaise with other social services agencies and health care providers involved with clients
Additional Skills: Administrative and office activities, Housekeeping activities, Food preparation
Security and Safety: Confidential security clearance, Criminal record check, Medical exam
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Work under pressure
Transportation/Travel Information: Travel expenses paid by employer
Work Location Information: Work in employer's/client's home
Essential Skills: Reading text, Document use, Numeracy, Writing, Communication, Working with others, Problem solving, Decision making, Critical thinking, Job task planning and organizing, Significant use of memory, Finding information, Computer use, Continuous learning
Other Information:NBCR is looking for enthusiastic individuals to work in our community residences supporting adults with mental illness. The hours for this job will be on a casual basis up to 40hrs/week.
Languages: English
Employer: NB Community Residences Inc.
In Person between 9:00 and 16:00: 530 Needham St. Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 1P3
Advertised until: 2014/12/04

By E-mail: stephanie.brewer@nbcr.ca