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Overview

Job Title: Residence Coordinator
Start Date: January 11, 2020
Position Duration: 1 year contract with the possibility of extension (3-month probation)
Hours/week: 35 hours/week
Hourly wage: $25-$27/hour
Vacation: 4 weeks/year
Benefits: Full benefits paid by employer, 5% RRSP Contribution (following probation)
Office Location: Castlegar, BC (exact location TBD)
Communities Served: Regional (Trail, Nelson, Castlegar, & surrounding areas)
​Application Deadline: Friday, December 18th, 2020 @ 5pm
Send resume and cover letter to: work@freedomquestyouthservices.ca

Program Summary

Freedom Quest's Residence is home to up to 2 young people who may have multiple diagnoses, come from unstable family backgrounds, and may have been exposed to a range of risk factors. This 24/7 staffed home is a place where youth can find safety, stability, and care from a group of adults who are trauma and attachment informed, culturally humble, actively engaged, strengths-based, client-centered, and motivated to support them in moving towards their self-identified goals.
It is also a place where families can experience non-judgement and unconditional positive regard as they work to maintain a relationship with their young person and/or work towards reconnecting and rebuilding relationships that have been disrupted.
In addition to providing youth with the basic utilities of living and supplying them with much-needed supports, the Residence is supported by a Recreation Facilitator who promotes and facilitates therapeutic indoor and outdoor recreation with youth, staff, family members (when applicable), and other key figures in the young person’s life. Freedom Quest is an agency that understands that healthy, authentic, and holistic relationships built on positive and exciting experiences are fundamental to a successful home environment and support network.

Position Summary

The Residence Coordinator is a member of the agency's Leadership Team and is anticipated to allocate their time and energy to the tasks below, however, they and the Executive Director have the flexibility to manage their time and tasks according to the needs of the home, the residents, the agency, and the contract. The Residence Coordinator holds the responsibility of performing all tasks relating to both the Residence Coordinator position as well Residence Worker position.
​Residence Coordinator Position Summary

MCFD Relationship Building:
  • Manage and support a collaborative, professional, and respectful relationship with all employees of the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
  • Pinpoint areas where Freedom Quest Policies and Procedures may not align with MCFD Policies and Procedures and troubleshoot in collaboration with the Executive Director and MCFD leadership
  • Creatively and nimbly maintain the foundations of the Program Summary while adjusting to changes brought forth by MCFD
Leadership, Supervision, and Coordination:
  • Hire, orient, train, support, and evaluate Residence Workers (weekday) and Relief Workers in collaboration with the Senior Residence Worker Hire, orient, train, support, and evaluate the Senior Residence Worker in collaboration with the Executive Director
  • Support the Senior Residence Worker in hiring, orienting, training, supporting, and evaluating Residence Workers (weekend)
  • Schedule weekly phone check-ins and monthly supervision meetings with the Executive Director
  • Attend agency Leadership Team Meetings and fully participate according to the Leadership Team’s Terms of Reference
  • Understand the intricacies of Freedom Quest’s Policy and Procedure Manual and model its operationalization
  • Take the lead in ensuring there is a practical, caring, realistic, and evidence-based Care Plan in place for every youth
  • Review, evaluate, summarize, and report on program documentation (i.e. daily log sheets, care plan progress reports, and occupancy tracking forms)

Residence Worker Position Summary

Worker/Youth Relationship Building:
  • Speak and write using a strength-based approach
  • Communicate the house agreements and limits to confidentiality early in the relationship
  • Be available – physically and mentally, for comfort and protection
  • Have fun, be silly, embrace spontaneity
  • Create opportunities for youth to have choice in what is happening
  • Maintain transparency in the relationship
  • Model secure attachment behaviours
  • Plan, prepare, and, whenever possible, eat meals together
  • Take into account each youth’s biological age, developmental stage, and other factors
  • Maintain care and unconditional positive regard when communicating boundaries, implementing consequences, deescalating harmful behaviours, and when saying “no”
  • Find/create opportunities to say “yes”

Care Plan Support:
  • Support youth in moving forward in their individualized Care Plan
  • Communicate with team members around Care Plan progress to avoid unhelpful repetition and to thoughtfully “pick-up where others left off
  • ”Make use of evidence-based models such as Motivational Interviewing as youth move through the Stages of Change
  • Communicate, collaborate, and consult with supervisors if/when a care plan needs adjusting

Recreation Participation:
  • Actively participate in lower and higher risk recreation activities according to each youth’s individualized Care Plan
  • Follow the lead of the Recreation
  • Facilitator when engaged in high-risk activities such as canoeing or overnight camping
  • Plan and deliver low-risk recreation activities such as bowling, shopping, eating-out, birthday celebrations, etc.
  • Have fun and express yourself authentically as you engage in recreation activities

Community Collaboration:
  • Maintain positive relationships with neighbours, visitors, and other community members
  • Fully collaborate with community partners, family members, the funder, and others according to agency policy

Training and Competency Building:
  • Seek out professional development opportunities
  • Actively seek supervisor consultation in instances of confusion, uncertainty, and/or concern.
  • Be open to constructive feedback and make adjustments as needed
  • Fully engage in required trainings
  • Uphold a workplace culture of life-long learning

Administration & Other Duties:
  • Complete daily log sheets, care plan progress reports, and occupancy tracking forms
  • Promote and make available to residents the bi-annual resident satisfaction survey
  • Attend required house meetings, staff meetings, and agency functions.
  • Read, understand, and comply with all agency policies and procedures
  • Perform room checks
  • Organize and maintain a clean work/home environment
  • Perform First Aid as needed and in accordance with First Aid Certifications
  • Complete minor household repairs
  • Alert supervisors and/or the JOSH committee about any home/workplace hazards and or damage

Knowledge Skills, and Abilities

Education:
  • A diploma or degree in child and youth care, social work, or related field. Equivalent experience may be accepted.

​Experience:
  • Five years of experience working with youth who have complex needs
  • Two years of experience working in a residential setting
  • Extensive experience working from client-centred, strengths-based, harm-reduction, attachment and trauma-informed approaches
  • Experience being in relationship with Indigenous people
  • Experience working alongside worldviews that are not your own

​Other Requirements:
  • Current First Aid and CPR Certification
  • Criminal Record Check (Children & Vulnerable Adults)
  • Valid FoodSafe Certification
  • Valid Class IV Driver’s License
  • Clean Driver’s Abstract
  • Reliable Vehicle
  • Valid ASIST Certification