Description
COMPETITION # 2025-09
POSITION TYPE PERMANENT, 10 Hour Shifts, Evenings, Weekends, and Holidays
5 PM – 3 AM, 6PM – 4AM (Hours may be varied)
DUTIES:
The Safe Ride Outreach Worker will focus on providing outreach services for missing/absent children in care, in collaboration with community led outreach services, that focuses on early intervention. Workers will provide rapid responses to children and youth who are absent from placement and safely returning them. They will maintain good working relationships with children, and collaborating agencies such as child and family services workers, family members and caregivers.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Must have an understanding of the impact of colonization and the legacy of residential schools and 60’s scoop, be passionately committed to de-colonization actions, and have the knowledge to mitigate the stereotypes and myths applied to Indigenous Peoples.
- Diploma/Certificate in Child & Youth Care, or other relevant discipline with experience in front line work, including outreach services, other combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- Competent in written communication and documentation skills to maintain reports along with documentation that may be required by law enforcement and child welfare agencies.
- Knowledge and awareness of child/youth exploitation issues and the high-risk communities/areas or places that children/youth are exploited and/or placed at risk.
- Knowledge and understanding of Indigenous and multi-cultural contexts and demonstrated skill working with cross cultural environment.
- Strong ability to develop working relationships with child welfare agencies, community organizations, group care facilities.
- Emergency First Aid and Non-Violent Crisis Intervention training is an asset.
- Experience using Microsoft Word and Outlook is a requirement.
- Experience with CFSIS/Intake Module is an asset.
- Satisfactory Criminal Record Check, Child Abuse Registry and CFS Prior Contact check.
- Must have valid driver’s license and a vehicle with $2,000,000 liability insurance and provide a personal driver abstract.
- Applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
Please send a cover letter and a resume to employerrep@abcentre.org.
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