Child and Youth Care Team Lead Talent Pool

Role Responsibilities

About the Role

Join our dedicated team at the Provincial Campus Based Care Centre, where we provide essential services to support the needs of youth and their families. We are committed to creating a safe, therapeutic, and empowering environment for our youth.

As a Child and Youth Care Team Lead, you will be a key member of a multi-disciplinary team, providing direct services and support to youth. You will ensure the therapeutic and social environment is safe ad secure, develop and follow care plans, and continuously evaluate and monitor the progress of the youth in your care.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary care provider for up to two youth, ensuring their needs are met.
• Develop and implement individual care plans in collaboration with allied professionals.
• Provide various types of support, including group and individual counseling, addiction management, and social skills development. 
• Maintain daily records and complete monthly progress reports. 
• Ensure a safe and healthy environment by assessing and minimizing risks, conducting searches, and utilizing crisis intervention techniques.
• Plan and supervise daily activities, including physical, social, and educational activities.
• Teach living skills and prepare youth for a successful transition to independence. 
• Complete administrative duties, including maintaining accurate records and supervising practicum students.  
• Lead a team of 3 – 4 Child and Youth Care Counsellors and guide the day-to-day tasks assigned to support youth residing at the centre.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to support youth to achieve positive outcomes.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Systems Thinking:  Plans and leads operations in alignment with regional and department priorities; applies knowledge of current issues, risks, and opportunities as well as the political environment into leadership plans and decisions, while also responding to more immediate program and client needs; develop and encourage commitment to new approaches; work within a broadly defined conceptual framework; and manage multiple complex issues and resolve problems while delivering results.

Creative Problem Solving:  Proactively identifies and engages the right stakeholders to resolve issues to mitigate their escalation; breaks down complex problems, seeking out root causes, to apply the best resolution possible given available information; consult, negotiate, and resolve conflict with stakeholders and senior Government and Ministry representatives with varying perspectives, expectations, requirements, and priorities.

Agility:  Creates opportunities for improvement in program and policy processes; leads change within existing work in a way that minimizes disruption; proactively shifts strategic focus and leads staff through shifts in organizational priorities; operate effectively within a complex organization and continually changing business environment.

Drive for Results:  Removes barriers to collaboration and achievement of outcomes; Focuses operational program and service delivery decisions to align with broader regional and provincial goals and strategies as well as legislation and policy.

Build Collaborative Environments:  Feeds, maintains, and grows networks to facilitate program and service delivery and achieve broader CI strategic priorities; involves key stakeholders to evolve programs and services delivery and to identify and resolve related issues and disputes.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Degree or Diploma in Child and Youth Care or related plus 3 years directly related experience. 
• Alberta Class 5 Drivers License 

Preference will be given to those who have:

• A high cultural competency in Indigenous experience
• Child and Youth Care Degree or Diploma
• Related experience in therapeutic campus-based care setting, working with indigenous populations, working in youth homes, teacher, educational assistant, crisis intervention, family counselling, youth counselling, youth correction work, childcare program development (Teacher, Educational Assistant, Psychologist) and behavioral therapy.
• Current Certification in First Aid with CPR and Suicide Intervention
• Experience as a leader and/or Team Lead/Supervisory experience
• Strong leadership, communication, and organizational and task delegation skills
• Experience in managing interpersonal relations

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

This position is 38.75 hours per week and works shift schedule of 3 evening shifts (2:45pm – 11:00pm), 3 day shifts (7:00am – 3:15pm), and 3 regular days off.

• Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.
• Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance