Child and Youth Worker – One-to-One Support

Location: Pickering, Ontario
Organization: Greenfield Child & Youth Services

Position Overview

Greenfield Child & Youth Services is seeking experienced Child and Youth Workers to provide individualized, trauma-informed one-to-one support to children and youth with highly complex behavioural, emotional, developmental, and mental health needs.

This position requires individuals who are confident in managing challenging behaviours, responding to crises, implementing individualized support plans, and maintaining a secure, structured, and therapeutic environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide individualized 1:1 support to children and youth with highly complex needs.
- Establish positive, trusting relationships through consistent, trauma-informed care.
- Support youth experiencing aggression, complex trauma, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, and other high-risk behaviours.
- Implement individualized behaviour support plans, safety plans, and therapeutic strategies.
- Apply crisis prevention, verbal de-escalation, and non-physical intervention techniques.
- Recognize behavioural triggers, identify early warning signs, and respond proactively to escalating situations.
- Assist with daily routines, personal care, education, recreational programming, and community participation.
- Promote emotional regulation, healthy coping strategies, communication, and independent living skills.
- Provide supervision and support during appointments, transitions, and community outings.
- Transport youth to authorized appointments and activities as required.
- Maintain accurate, objective documentation of behaviours, incidents, interventions, and progress.
- Communicate relevant updates to management and authorized professionals.




- Collaborate with team members to ensure consistent implementation of individualized care plans.
- Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and compliance with organizational policies.

Mandatory Qualifications & Requirements

- Education: Completed post-secondary diploma or degree in Child and Youth Care, Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Criminology, Behavioural Science, Education, or a related field.
- Valid UMAB Certification: Understanding and Managing Aggressive Behaviour.
- Valid Police Screening: Satisfactory Broad Record Check, including any additional screening required for the position.
- Trauma-Informed Care: Certificate of completion.
- Valid First Aid & CPR: Valid First Aid and CPR Level C certification.
- Human Trafficking Awareness & Prevention Training.
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Training.
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Awareness & Support Training.
- Valid Driver's Licence: Valid Ontario Class G driver's licence.
- Personal Vehicle: Reliable access to a vehicle for authorized client transportation.
- Automobile Insurance: Minimum $1 million in third-party liability coverage, with authorization to transport clients.
- Experience: Demonstrated experience supporting children and youth with complex behavioural needs, aggression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, and mental health challenges.
- Availability: Flexibility to work days, evenings, weekends, and overnight shifts as required.

Join Our Team

At Greenfield Child & Youth Services, we believe that meaningful relationships, individualized support, and consistent care can make a lasting difference in a young person's life.

We are looking for compassionate, skilled, and dependable professionals who can provide safe, structured, and responsive care to children and youth with complex needs.

Pay: $20.00-$26.00 per hour

Expected hours: 10.0 – 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person

📌 Child and Youth Worker – One-to-One Support (Pickering Ontario)
🏢 Greenfield Child and Youth Services
📍 Pickering