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Job Description
Position Summary:
The Housing Support Worker supports and facilitates the daily activities of residents related to each individual’s recovery plan.
Qualifications:
- Education/Certification:
- Post-secondary education related to health care or human services preferred
- Current 1st Aide Certification required
- Knowledge, Skills and Ability:
- Ability to be flexible to meet different shift schedules as required
- Ability to respond to immediate resident issues while maintaining work on long term goals
- Ability to provide a functional assessment of observed behavior
- Thorough knowledge of life skills and ability to teach same
Principle Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implements the residential recovery plan:
- Assists residents to work toward clearly set goals and help make decisions based on the resident’s values (i.e. teaching and supporting the practice of activities of daily living)
- Organizes and facilitates psycho-social education in individual and group settings:
- Encouraging the practice of appropriate coping strategies
- Organizes, facilitates and assists in the performance of routine household tasks:
- Encourages participation of all residents in household routines
- Facilitates skill acquisition as it relates to resident participation in carrying out household tasks
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