Youth Housing Worker
Job No:
PCRS677
Location:
Surrey
Youth Housing Worker
Surrey Youth Reaching Home
Regular Full Time (35 hours/week)
Grid 13 ($29.96 - $31.24/hour)
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Supervisor: Team Lead Surrey Youth Housing Services
Pacific Community Resources Society is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from people of all gender identities and expressions, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and visible minorities.
Opportunity
Pacific Community Resources Society is seeking an experienced, detail-oriented Youth Housing Worker in Surrey. This worker will provide housing support for youth up to the age of 24, who are currently experiencing homelessness or are at imminent risk of homelessness. The housing worker’s primary responsibility will be to support youth to remain housed or find and secure safe and affordable housing. The worker will maintain a caseload and provide community outreach services. The worker will also liaise with other agencies, shelters and safe houses to ensure homeless youth have access to services to end the cycle of homelessness.
Responsibilities
- Outreach Housing support
- Housing Searches
- One to one case management support
- Data entry
- Liase with MSPDR and other agencies, shelters and safe houses
- Other housing and administrative tasks as required.
Qualifications
- B.A. or a degree in a related field plus one (1) years experience; OR Diploma in a related field plus (2) years related experience.
- Criminal record check, including the vulnerable sector
- Class 5 drivers license
- Use of own personal vehicle with business use insurance (mileage paid)
- Drivers abstract
Additional Assets
- Experience working with multi-barriered street entrenched homeless youth is required
- Strong knowledge of tenant and landlord rights and responsibilities under the B.C. Residential Tenancy
- Strong administrative skills and experience
- Familiarity with Surrey and the surrounding area.
Who We Are
Pacific Community Resources Society (PCRS) is a large not-for-profit agency that serves the some of the most vulnerable people in our communities from Vancouver to Hope. We work with youth and vulnerable adults in the areas of education, employment, housing, substance use and mental health, and youth and family support services. We are CARF Accredited and a Certified Living Wage Employer.
Our Vision - Everyone thriving in strong, healthy communities!
Our Mission - To inspire healthy and inclusive communities through leadership and collaboration.
Our Values - Advocacy, Diversity and Inclusion, Empowerment, Service Excellence, Stewardship, Well-being
We are grateful to operate on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷm əθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Qw'?ntl'en (Kwantlen), se’mya’me (Semiahmoo), sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen), q̓ic̓əy (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Coquitlam), qiqéyt (Qayqayt), máthxwi (Matsqui) and Stó:lō Nations.
We Offer
- Equitable Base Pay
- Generous paid vacation time, personal time, sick time; additional paid time off for life events
- Additional paid holidays, ex. Easter Monday, Boxing Day *
- Extended health, prescription, dental & vision care plan, with 100% Employer-Paid Premiums*
- Disability and Life Insurance Coverage *
- Employee & Family Assistance Program including preventative health & counselling *
- Membership in the Municipal Pension Plan with generous employer contributions *
- Flexible schedules and earned time off program *
- Full-day agency orientation and extensive training, with regular ongoing performance evaluations
- In-house digital and classroom learning opportunities; staff funding for professional development*
- Opportunities to use your voice & participate in committees on policy, wellness, safety, EDI, etc.
* Eligibility will vary depending on terms and role requirements – details for this posting will be provided on request.
Persons who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact our HR department at. Personal information will be kept confidential.