26 Oct
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Fred Victor
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Kingston
26 Oct
Fred Victor
Kingston
INTERNAL/EXTERNAL
Job Title: Part Time Weekend Housing Worker
Position Type: Bargaining Unit, Permanent, Part-Time
Number of Positions: 1
Reason for Posting: Existing Vacancy
Rate: $25.72 per hour
Vacation: 8% Vacation Pay
Hours: 15 hours per week, Saturdays and Sundays
Supervisor: Weekend Supervisor, Kingston Road
Posting Date: October 22, 2026
Application Deadline: November 2, 2026
Location: 4626 Kingston Road, Scarborough
Why Fred Victor?
For 130 years, Fred Victor has been a leader in helping people rebuild their lives in Toronto. Our mission is to improve the health, income and housing stability of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. We are committed to ending homelessness, one person at a time.
Kingston Road Housing –provides safe deeply affordable housing for single people who are experiencing poverty,
chronic homelessness and often the long-term effects of trauma, social isolation, varying degrees of mental health and substance use. Kingston Road Housing provides Housing with supports, including case management, on site 24
hours per day, 7 days per week. We work from a client centered, harm reduction, trauma informed, anti-oppressive framework.
Does this sound like work you want to be a part of?
We offer a supportive environment, an opportunity to join a diverse team of caring professionals and a chance to make a difference. With over 75 programs and 25 sites, there are lots of opportunities to grow your career with us.
Many members of the management team started in relief and front-line roles.
What You Will Do:
- Provide a welcoming, friendly and professional Front Desk for Housing and keep the Housing Office open as
often as possible. This includes but is not limited to answering the phones, fielding tenant questions and concerns, signing in guests, signing out keys, taking work orders, crisis intervention, assisting with tenant medication, giving notices to tenants and liaising with other workers and professionals.
- Utilize trauma informed community development, facilitative management, and conflict resolution approaches
to facilitate supportive, co-operative living and support tenants to develop skills to live cooperatively in their accommodation.
- Provide intake, assessment and case management services, utilizing a client-centered, strength-based,
harm reduction approach to clients
- Coach or assist a client in the development/maintenance of abilities relating to activities of daily living, self-care,
crisis management strategies, symptom management, maintaining a support network, and skills teaching such as budgeting, grocery shopping and other life skills.
- Ensure case plans which have been developed are continuing to be followed on the weekends
- Ensure all eviction prevention strategies and policies are implemented.
- Work with the tenant community to understand the Fred Victor Mission, Vision and Values and how they relate
to being a tenant and participating in FV programming and services.
- Work collaboratively with other FV staff in order to provide the best service possible to all and in order to ensure
the safety of all.
- Communicate and demonstrate appropriate professional boundaries with the tenant community and abide by
all organizational policies and procedures. What You Bring to the Team:
- Diploma or Degree in social Services field and/or experience working with people experiencing
homelessness in a residential setting
- Strong understanding of systems that cause and support homelessness, poverty and discrimination and respect
for those realities.
- Strong understanding that people living on low income are a resource to resolve community issues and not the
cause of the problem.
What Sets You Apart
- Strong customer service skills.
- Highly developed and proven group facilitation skills.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
- Strong understanding of and experience in community development practices.
- Well-developed conflict resolution and negotiation skills and crisis management skills.
- Ability to work productively within a team setting.
- Strong organizational skills; highly developed ability to prioritize work through short and long term goals and
remain flexible.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills that will produce effective,
productive and appropriate relationships with
the tenants, community, external agencies and staff at Fred Victor.
- Proven ability to constructively give and receive feedback.
- Highly developed understanding of and proven ability to communicate appropriate skilled boundaries.
- Proven ability to challenge organization, staff and tenant communities in a positive and creative way to effect
better service.
- Knowledge of community based resources.
- Experience with and proven responsibility handling money.
- Literacy in Microsoft Office, Pirouette and Arcori (an asset)
Compensation and Benefits
- For the Weekend Housing Worker position, Fred Victor offers an hourly rate of $25.72
- 8% vacation pay
- Access to employee and family assistance plan
How You Can Apply Internal employees who are interested in this opportunity are encouraged to apply through ADP by navigating to
Myself > Talent > Career Centre. External candidates may apply using this link: Fred Victor ADP Career Centre or by scanning the QR code:
Please note that we are currently soft-launching our new online hiring system through ADP.
During this transition, not all job postings are available in the system yet. We appreciate your patience as we work through this transition. As part of the application process, applicants are asked to upload their resume and a cover letter as one document describing their interest in joining the Fred Victor team.
A Police Record Check is required by the final candidate prior to hiring.
Accessibility & Accommodation
Fred Victor is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment where employees feel valued and respected, and where every employee has the opportunity to realize their potential. As such, we welcome and encourage applicants who identify as racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons across the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identities and have lived-experience
If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation and/or assistance during the application process, please contact us in advance. We strive to provide reasonable accommodations whenever requested. Information received relating to accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality.
📌 Part Time Weekend Housing Worker (Kingston)
🏢 Fred Victor
📍 Kingston