Maple
Ridge/Pitt Meadows Community Services is currently looking for a Program
Support Worker within our Family Place program. Family Place strives to empower families
through connection, peer support and enriching programming by developing parenting skills in a safe
and supportive environment, creating community connections, finding peer
support, and providing access to resources relating to parenting and child
development for children 0 – 5 years old. Family Place provides friendly and
diverse and interactive parent/child opportunities with music and movement,
literacy, experiential open-ended arts and crafts, age-appropriate sensory play.
The Program Support Worker will work proactively as part of an
effective team that delivers quality programming and direct services to
families who access Family Place and its programs.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
·Ensuring
a comfortable, supportive atmosphere exists for family and individual clients
to socialize and obtain peer support, information about family life issues,
other community services, and other supports and referrals as necessary.
·Ensuring
the provision of high-quality childcare services and programs that model
appropriate and health parent-child relationships in order that parents may
participate in adult and/or parent-child programming at Family Place.
·Ensuring
information, education, and/or support relevant to the identified needs of low
income, single parent and socially isolated families are provided as part of
the regular programming and services.
·Researching,
developing and presenting short topics of interest, particularly to groups of
new parents and parents of preschoolers.
·Actively
working with the team before and after program time in the preparation and
clean up of the facility including loading and unloading program materials and
supplies, setting up adult and child program areas for client interaction, some
light housekeeping such as washing dishes, making coffee and tidying up. Planning and sharing the team, responsibility
for the larger tasks of shopping, sorting and regularly disinfecting toys.
·Responding
to and working cooperatively with the Ministry for Children & Family
Development to develop means of responding to the particular needs of low
income, single parent and socially isolated families.
·Working
cooperatively with the team so that responsibility for staffing individual
programs is a shared process that results in an efficient and effective
management and coordination of staff schedules and duties.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education, Training and
Experience
·Early
Childhood Education certificate or diploma
·A
minimum of one year recent and related experience
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
·Proven
ability and expertise working in the areas of family dynamics and dysfunctions,
family violence, child development, self-esteem, communication and poverty
issues
·Ability
to maintain a sensitive, positive and non-judgemental approach and demeanour
when working with parents, children, staff, and the public
·Knowledge
of child physical, sexual and emotional abuse, its signs and predictors
·Proven
ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in written form including
interviewing, reflective and active listening skills, writing goals,
objectives, and reports
·Ability
to work effectively as a member of a team with minimum supervision on a
day-to-day basis and, deal with crisis situations should they arise
·Demonstrated
ability to efficiently and effectively manage work time, energy and stress
level
·Demonstrated
ability to maintain a variety of records, forms and statistics
Additional Requirements:
·Clear Criminal Record Check is required.
·Current First Aid and CPR Certificate.
·Valid and unrestricted Class 5 BC Driver’s License with access to a
safe and reliable vehicle.
·Position requires Union Membership.
Shift/Schedule/Hours
per week: 18.5 hours/week
Expected
Start Date: ASAP
Wage/Salary:
starting
at $27.54/hour
Grid
Level: 11
We are committed to recruiting a diverse
workforce that represents the communities we proudly serve, while
encompassing the principles of equity, inclusion and diversity. We strongly
encourage applications from people of colour, Indigenous Peoples,
persons with disabilities, people of all gender expressions and
sexual orientations including queer, trans, and two-spirit people. In
our words and actions, we recognize the challenges for those facing
inequalities, while acknowledging our privilege, as we continuously strive
to remove bias and reduce barriers that individuals
may experience in the hiring and job-seeking process. We invite
feedback from all applications who apply for roles within the
Agency.
