Recovery Care Worker, Downtown Vancouver (Casual)

Job Category : Community

Requisition Number : RECOV

- Part time

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Description

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those who need it most? We're seeking a compassionate individual to join our team as a Recovery Care Worker. In this role, you'll be a key part of our dedicated team, providing support and care for program participants on their journey towards recovery. Your responsibilities will include offering referrals, accompanying to appointments, advocating for material needs, organizing program activities, and addressing emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual needs. You'll also play a crucial role in providing mediation facilitation and conducting searches and screenings. This position demands flexibility, as it involves shift work, including weekends, evenings, overnights, and statutory holidays. If you're ready to make a difference and share in our mission of modeling Christ-like behavior while providing support and care, we want to hear from you.

We are hiring for a casual position with shifts from 7am-3pm, 3pm-11pm, and 11pm-7am. The starting pay range for this position is $26.26 to $28.70 per hour.

only female candidates will be considered for this position

Who We Are

Demonstrating the love of Christ, UGM feeds hope and changes lives through a faith-based continuum of care. We are a proud member of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities and have earned the Best Christian Workplace award again in 2021. We provide competitive salaries, and for permanent employees, a generous vacation and sick leave, an RRSP matching program,



as well as the potential for educational assistance are available. In addition, our extensive benefits plan is fully employer-paid and includes extended dental and medical, as well as $4,500 per year in pooled paramedical expenses. A focus on employee resilience, support for professional development, engagement in meaningful work, and a fun and caring environment are all part of being a member of the UGM team. If you are someone who desires to learn and grow, has a passion to serve and make a difference, and connects with others with both humility and humour, then you will be a great fit at UGM.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

- Model Christ in word and deed.
- Build positive, uplifting rapport with participants by fostering a climate of grace, forgiveness and accountability.
- Develop positive supervisory relationships with those in early recovery stages who are participating in the UGM Joanna Home program.
- Maintain confidentiality and professionalism while possessing capacity for compassion, empathy, active listening and patience with staff and participants.
- Debrief with staff once on shift, keep updated on latest communications with staff for any duties or actions that need to be carried out.
- Complete duty roster for each shift; including light cleaning, general sanitization, organizing, cooking, dishes, room checks, medication distribution, data recording,



etc.
- Actively support the participants in the UGM Joanna Home program by:
- Advocating and helping to acquire material needs and services within the community.
- Assisting with problem-solving and life skills within the context of their daily routines.
- Encouraging participants to fully cooperate in the UGM Joanna Home program. Kindy but firmly enforce rules and policies of UGM Joanna Home.
- Connecting participants with members of the community to expand their support network
- Attend to the emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual needs of all participants.
- Ensure healthy and nutritional options for meals. Practice Food safe procedures in all food handling, including preparation.
- Provide medication facilitation, including locking meds, completing MARS sheets, connecting program participants with pharmacies and receiving medication from delivery services, etc.
- Transport participants to and from appointments, shopping trips, field trips, etc. as needed.
- Conduct scheduled and random room searches, bag searches, and urine screenings with both sensitivity and determination. Deal appropriately with participants’ feelings of resentment and frustration that may occur.
- Organize and participate in program activities, offering ideas and resources when appropriate.
- Follow intake procedures with proficiency. Thoroughly search belongings, urine screen, record medications into MARS sheet and client emergency binder, provide orientation, get sign off on rules, and remove, label and appropriately store any restricted items.
- Take an active role in proactively and re-actively defu

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