Awake Overnight Youth Worker (2026-376-YPS)

WoodGreen Community Services; Toronto; On-site; CAD 44,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

WoodGreen Community Services is seeking an Awake Overnight Youth Worker for the Withrow Program in East Toronto. This full-time, on-site role supports youth ages 12–24, with a focus on mental health, housing, and youth justice. The position offers a 40-hour week with a 12am–8am schedule.

Qualifications include a degree in Child & Youth Work or related field, relevant experience, strong communication skills, and a valid First Aid/CPR certificate. CUPE Local 3501 bargaining unit.

Qualifications

• University or College degree in Child & Youth Work.
• Some relevant experience preferably in congregate care child & youth work.
• Good communication skills – verbal and written.
• Ontario G driver’s license considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Promote a safe and therapeutic environment and establish therapeutic relationships with clients.
• Incorporate strengths-based relationship-based care.
• Provide direct, client care and supervision in live-in program.
• Maintain client records and comply with privacy policies.
• Assist with meal preparation as required.

Skills

Child & Youth Work

First Aid/CPR

Administrative skills

Education

University or College degree in Child & Youth Work

Job description

Awake Overnight Youth Worker (2026-376-YPS)

Competition #: 2026-376-YPS

Employment Type: Full Time, CUPE Bargaining Unit (1 vacancy)

Work Hours: 40 hours/week, Monday to Friday 12am-8am

Work Setting: Exclusively On-Site (Withrow Program - East Toronto)

Salary: $51,279.44

Application Deadline: October 13,2026by 11:59 pm

Who We Are

WoodGreen is a team of diverse and innovative change makers working together to make a difference in our communities. A United Way Anchor Agency with a proven track record and an entrepreneurial mindset, we continuously seek to develop solutions to critical social needs while striving to become a Centre for Equity. Visit www.woodgreen.org to learn more about who we are and to review our Equity Statement. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. We encourage, and are pleased to consider, applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized persons/persons of colour, women/women identifying, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ persons, and others who contribute towards promoting innovative ideas and solutions.

Program Overview – Youth Programs & Services, Withrow Program

Turning Point Youth Services (TPYS) is an accredited, non-profit agency serving youth (12 to 24 years of age) and their families in the east end of Toronto. Turning Point’s mission is to empower youth to make positive change, and to accomplish this, it offers a continuum of services for youth and their families with a focus on mental health, housing/sheltering, and youth justice. Turning Point Youth Services and WoodGreen Community Services announced on July 2, 2024 the integration of the two organizations. The combination of these two agencies will enable a more effective and integrated approach to the provision of comprehensive support services for youth in the GTA.

What You Will Do

• Promote a safe and therapeutic environment and establish therapeutic relationships with clients through role modeling consistent with the Agency Mission, Vision and Values.


• Incorporate into your work a strengths-based relationship-based philosophy of care and a belief in the resilience of youth.


• Promote and integrate Youth and Family Engagement.


• Promote an environment of inclusion that promotes equity and respects diversity.


• Assess and understand client mental health needs through a developmental and traumainformed lens, offer and actualize methods of intervention not considered psychotherapy, in compliance with relevant legislation and the CRPO guidelines regarding the Controlled Act of Psychotherapy which identify, limit and control means of psychotherapy techniques delivered through a therapeutic relationship.


• Provide direct, client care and supervision to clients in the live-in program.


• Ensure that client records are maintained as per agency standards and in accordance with privacy policies and legislation.


• Ensure that administrative duties are completed within required timeframes.


• Effectively utilize communication systems to convey client and program related information.


• Develop, implement, evaluate and fully participate in life skills and recreational programming, where necessary.


• Maintain responsible oversight of agency finances and assets.


• Maintain adequate upkeep of the physical plant and property (interior and exterior).


• Assist with meal preparation as required.


• Liaise with other detention sites and the court system in order to support the level determination process of all youth in the Greater Toronto Area remanded to a detention facility by the courts (as applicable).


• Place calls to determine bed availability across the system (as applicable).


• Assist in ensuring that all documentation and information related to level determination is communicated to the supervisor in a timely manner (as applicable).


• Represent the Agency in a professional manner when dealing with families, external professionals, general public and community partners.


• Perform other duties as required.

What You Bring to the Team

• University or College degree and/or diploma in Child & Youth Work and/or Bachelor of Social Work.


• Some relevant experience, preferably in congregate care child and youth work.


• Demonstrated understanding of the complex issues and challenges facing our clients.


• Good communication skills – verbal and written.


• Good administration and computer skills.


• Able to work well as part of a team.


• Valid “Understanding and Managing Aggressive Behaviour” certification.


• Valid “First Aid/CPR” certification.


• Completion of required suicide prevention and intervention training.


• Ontario G driver’s license, and comfort driving agency vehicle, considered an asset.

What Will Set You Apart

• Demonstrated experience in the youth justice sector considered an asset.


• Appreciation of the importance of engaging youth and families from a strength-based relationship-based approach.


• Sensitivity to, and ability to work with, a diverse client and staff group.


• Ability to demonstrate an anti-oppression approach to practice and work from a client-centered, anti-racism, harm reduction, and trauma informed approach is required.


• Demonstrate knowledge of issues affecting marginalized communities, policies, legislation, programs, and other issues related to scope of practice and social determinants of health.


• Experience working with diverse and marginalized communities, including ethno-cultural and religious groups, LGBTQSS+ youth and youth adults, those impacted by poverty and those involved in youth justice.

This is a collective bargaining unit position with CUPE Local 3501.

WoodGreen is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free selection process and work environment. If contacted in relation to an employment opportunity, please advise our People & Culture representatives at [e-mail] of the accommodation measures required. Information received relating to accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

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