Housing Support Worker

Come Build Hope and Homes with Us!

Housing Support Worker- Full Time

Woodstock, Ontario- Harvey Woods Lofts Program

Salary: $45,900-$54,600

Position Description:  The Housing Support Worker promotes housing stability and supporting health, wellness and community belonging. Participating as a member of an interdisciplinary team supporting the treatment, rehabilitation, and care for individuals within the program. This is a specialized housing program serving individuals who have experienced long term housing instability and/or long stay hospitalizations.    

What matters to you? Being in a work culture that operates out of their core values of DIGNITY, LOVE and HOPE- embracing diversity, promoting equality and inclusion. A place that sees you as a LEADER contributing your individuality to champion the vision of creating communities that TRANSFORM lives.   

About Us:   Founded in 1974, our Christian charity continues to thrive and grow exponentially as we serve people impacted by poverty and homelessness through our vision of HOPE and HOMES for All.   We are the fastest growing developer in Ontario creating affordable high quality efficient housing communities coupled with supportive programs to over 1200 tenants to meet their needs of health, wellness, and belonging.   To learn more, go to: indwell.ca/our-model

What our Tenants say:  

"The welcoming you get when you walk through the doors, from tenants to staff. They're always checking on you."  "Living at Indwell has been teaching me to do things and taught me how to get along with better people, be better people and trust people and let people do and say what they want."  "An affordable rent.  It’s huge, it’s huge. It means I can eat properly. And that affects my physical and mental health, so that is huge."   

Hours of Work:  Full time- 40 hours per week.  Sunday to Thursday schedule with varying shifts from 8am-4pm, 10am-6pm and 12:30pm-8:30pm, including some public holidays.  Hours worked to be scheduled as required by program needs.   As the program operates 7 days a week, being on-call for 1 week every 4/6 weeks is required to support the tenants and each other on the team. The on-call rotation consists of carrying a work cell phone 24/7 for that one week, responding to urgent matters.  

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Working as part of an inter-disciplinary team to provide direct and indirect support to individuals.  
• Supporting individuals with activities of daily living. 
• Helping individuals connect to community resources and supports.  
• Reinforcing individuals’ life skills, spirituality, and social and community skills. 
• Planning and facilitating programs. 
• Supporting volunteers. 
• Assisting with admission and orientation of new tenants. 
• Rent collection and other landlord responsibilities. 
• A knowledge of local community resources and support systems and landlord-tenant relations is beneficial.  As well as knowledge about harm reduction and providing therapeutic conversation as it relates to addictions.
• Supporting individuals to achieve their goals while encouraging independence and recovery. 
• Maintaining a safe and healthy environment.   

  WHAT YOU WILL BRING:   

• Post Secondary education and related experience
• A warm, sensitive, and caring approach
• Ability to maintain good interpersonal relationships and have a genuine interest in supporting people living with mental illness, addictions or other special needs
• Work independently, have strong problem-solving skills, be flexible, organized, responsible, and take initiative

• A valid “G” class driver’s license with own vehicle

We want you to thrive: 

• Vacation: 3 weeks (15 days) paid with 8 HEAL days (sick and personal appointments) per year
• Extensive Benefits: Extended health (100% medication coverage- some exceptions may apply), dental and vision care.  Life Insurance and long term disability
• Employee Assistance Program: primary care and professional consulting services 
• Group RRSP: Indwells contributes 5% of salary
• New Staff Orientation Days
• Professional and Personal Development: annual Leadership Conference (themed with guest speaker) + Spiritual Ranch Retreat (reflection and recharge with various outdoor activities).  Clifton Strengths Finder Assessment facilitated by People Developer for mentoring opportunities, Lunch and Learn Webinars, Indigenous Cultural Competency and 2SLGBTQ Awareness + more 
• Social Events:  Indwell’s Hope and Homes annual signature events to celebrate the important work we do + team gatherings

As Indwell works to support diverse tenant populations, we are seeking to create a diverse work culture that closely matches the diversity of our communities with qualified individuals who share our commitment to equity and inclusion, who will contribute to the diversification of ideas and perspectives.  Our supports, services and employment are open to people from every creed, race, ethnicity, sex, ability, sexual orientation, and gender identity.  And we especially invite applications from Black, Indigenous peoples, members of racialized communities and intersectionalities.  Indwell’s leadership are motivated by the example of Jesus Christ as reflected in Indwell’s statement of faith.  

Inspired to JOIN OUR TEAM, we invite you… 

To APPLY:  Please forward your cover letter and resume to our website: www.indwell.ca/careers. We thank all for your interest; however, only those applicants that are being considered will be notified.  

Personal information submitted will be used only for employment opportunities within Indwell in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.   

Accommodation will be provided to applicants who make their needs known in advance for the duration of the hiring process as required under Indwell’s Employment policy.