Recovery Care Workers Casual

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 modelling Christ-like behaviour while providing support and care, we want to hear from you.

You will frequently deal with clients in crisis situations, brought about by diverse problems. There will be other staff nearby to assist as required.

We are hiring for two
temporary casual Recovery Care Workers. The starting range for this position is $26.26 to $28.70 per hour.

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 Langley program.
• Maintain confidentiality and professionalism while possessing the capacity for compassion, empathy, active listening and patience with staff and participants.
• Debrief staff once on shift and keep them updated on the latest communications with staff regarding 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 Langley 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 Langley program. Kindy but firmly enforce rules and policies of UGM Langley.
  • 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 Foodsafe 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 defusing and deescalating aggressive situations.
• Be knowledgeable of all the material documented in the UGM Langley handbook, as well as related documentation, and apply it consistently.
• Monitor sobriety and overall…