Residential Care Worker - Repost

Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Site: WRHA Community Health Services

Department / Unit: Women's Treatment and Community Services

Job Stream: Non-Clinical

Union: CUPE

Anticipated

Start Date:

ASAP

FTE: 1.00

Anticipated Shift: Nights

Work Arrangement: In Person

Daily Hours Worked: 8.00

Annual Base

Hours:

2080

Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We’re united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.

• Suitable combination of education and experience working in a residential facility, addictions related employment experience and/or volunteer work.
• Experience working from a client centered perspective.

• Complete high school education, Manitoba standards, required.

Not Applicable

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work well within an inter-disciplinary team.
• The ability to work within and contribute to a positive team environment.
• An understanding of, and sensitivity to, working with culturally diverse populations is essential.
• The ability to operate Microsoft software applications, internet and email communications.
• Valid CPR-C with Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training and First Aid certification are required prior to beginning work.
• Knowledge of the addictions field is required.
• Fluency in English (the ability to communicate in aboriginal languages, including Ojibwe and Cree, as well as French is considered an asset).
• Knowledge of Indigenous customs, traditions, and beliefs will be considered an asset.

• Suitable physical health to perform required duties.
• Availability for shift work.

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, Prairie Crocus Manor, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.

Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.

Wewelcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.