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Job Description
THIS POSITION REQUIRES FEMALE STAFF.
THE SCHEDULE FOR THIS PART-TIME POSITION IS:
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, hours beginning 11:00 pm – 11:30 p.m. and ending 7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
As a part-time staff you will be eligible for our Health Spending Account and our Employee Assistance Program, after you have successfully completed your probationary period.
WAYS Mental Health Support is an equal opportunity employer who recognizes and values diversity in its workplace. WAYS encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate candidates with disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and placement process, upon request. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment and placement process please contact our Human Resources department at HumanResources@ways.on.ca.
Job Title Night Residential Counsellor - Part-time
Reporting To Program Supervisor
Position Summary
The night staff is responsible, within the residence, to ensure that the residents are appropriately supervised and cared for during the night shift and that the residential milieu is safe and secure. This includes telephone security check-ins with other designated units.
Major Duties
Education
Skills / Ability / Knowledge
Communication
Human Relations
Environmental
Hours of Work
THE SCHEDULE FOR THIS PART-TIME POSITION IS:
THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, hours beginning 11:00 pm – 11:30 p.m. and ending 7:00 a.m. - 7:30 a.m.
As a part-time staff you will be eligible for our Health Spending Account and our Employee Assistance Program, after you have successfully completed your probationary period.
WAYS Mental Health Support is an equal opportunity employer who recognizes and values diversity in its workplace. WAYS encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate candidates with disability-related needs, up to the point of undue hardship, throughout all stages of the recruitment and placement process, upon request. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment and placement process please contact our Human Resources department at HumanResources@ways.on.ca.
Job Title Night Residential Counsellor - Part-time
Reporting To Program Supervisor
Position Summary
The night staff is responsible, within the residence, to ensure that the residents are appropriately supervised and cared for during the night shift and that the residential milieu is safe and secure. This includes telephone security check-ins with other designated units.
Major Duties
- As required, makes visual checks on each resident until asleep and hourly visual checks thereafter to ensure the personal, property and building safety. Site telephone security check-ins will be completed according to unit specific timeframes.
- Supervises the residential milieu
- Provides each resident with appropriate and necessary physical care
- Be aware of resident’s background and attend to the ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual orientation, health and special needs
- Records and administers medication and first aid
- Provides counselling and manages crisis situations as the need arises. This includes residents leaving without permission or aggressive or disruptive behaviour.
- Be aware of residents’ special needs and ensure residents’ individualized program plans are followed
- Provide the resident with a positive role model
- Attends staff meetings and staff training as required
- Performs basic housekeeping and food preparation
- Complete regular inventories as assigned
- Ensures completion of shift routines, prepares reports, completes inventories and conducts file audits as required
- Maintains resident files electronically and hard copy as required
- Follows existing policy and procedures in order to provide safety and security to the residents
- On occasion, may be responsible for duties related to emergency admissions
- Completes all documentation and daily notes according to agency procedures
- Record expenses assigned to petty cash and submit receipts
- Participates in performance feedback in the identification of strengths and weaknesses
Education
- Community College Diploma in child and youth work or equivalent specialization or a University degree in social science
- Experience as a frontline worker in a residential setting is preferred
- 520 Hours in the position will be required to become fully familiar with the role
- Valid class G driver’s licence
- Current Certificate in First Aid / CPR
- Current PMAB training
- All mandatory training as specified by agency policy
Skills / Ability / Knowledge
Communication
- Verbal communication skills necessary to convey shift information to incoming staff and to persuade resident to change behaviour
- Good verbal and written skills to communicate information to residents, families, co-workers and community services. Verbal communication skills necessary to convey information, participation in or lead group discussions and influence team members in group decision making. Residents often require persuasion to change behaviour.
- Ability to provide services in French is an asset
- Has sound knowledge of problem solving skills to develop creative, evolving plans for residents and their families
- Understands and solves problems, which can simultaneously involve many systems
- Operates a motor vehicle, kitchen equipment and appliances
- Proficient in the use of computer hardware and software applications
Human Relations
- Relates with sensitivity to residents and families
- Skills include tact, diplomacy, persuasion and patience
- Have the competency to work with residents of diverse backgrounds regardless of their gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, physical and mental abilities, religious beliefs and socioeconomic class
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries at all times
Environmental
- All workplace sites are smoke free. The possibility of risk of injury, communicable or infectious diseases and the disagreeableness of handling body fluids exists.
- May work alone in a residence; deal with crisis independently, subject to consultation through on-call system
- Irrational and threatening resident behaviour and proximity to distress are an integral part of this job
Hours of Work
- Part-time status is based on an average of up to 32 hours a week
- Evening and weekend work is required