Job Description

Catholic Social Services is currently recruiting for a full-time (40 hours/week) Team Leader II in Red Deer.

Job Summary

The Team Leader II coordinates and implements support services to individual child clients with developmental disabilities, enabling them to be included in community life and be as independent as possible. This includes conducting initial assessments, service planning, and follow up meetings to verify the needs and requirements of clients and their families are being met. This position connects families to appropriate social service providers as necessary and acts as a point of contact for various support services agencies and as an advocate for the client and/or their family. This role provides day-to-day supervision and support to front-line employees and programs while providing crucial information to the direct supervisor to support the overall success of the Service/Region.

What This Job Requires:

• Diploma or Degree in Human Services (or equivalent)
• Minimum 2 years’ experience working with individuals with emotional and behavioral needs
• Experience supporting individuals with complex and high behaviours
• Supervisory experience is considered an asset
• Valid First Aid and CPR is considered an asset
• Vulnerable Sector Check
• Child Intervention Record Check
• Clear and Current Driver's Abstract
• A vehicle and valid class 5 driver's license – requirement to transport clients in your personal vehicle
• Proof of Vehicle Insurance showing $2 million liability coverage
• Proof of Vehicle Registration for insured vehicle

What We Offer

• The annual salary for this position is $51,260.40 - $57,670.56 and is based on qualifications and experience.
• Benefits available when eligible.
• Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
• Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.

About Catholic Social Services:

CSS is an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect. With more than 60 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1900 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.

We welcome and celebrate the diversity of our employees and volunteers who choose to work with our Agency in support of our mission, values, and principles. We employ and serve people of all faiths, or no faith, while respecting all backgrounds and experiences.

Our values are at the core of everything we do!

• Humility: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
• Compassion: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
• Respect: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.

We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Catholic Social Services is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce. In an effort to enrich our agency and reflect the communities we serve, we welcome applications from qualified individuals of all diverse groups and backgrounds.