Part Time Weekend Housing Worker

Fred Victor; Kingston; On-site; CAD 29,000 - 42,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly wage $25.72

8% vacation pay

Employee assistance plan

Job summary

Fred Victor is seeking a Weekend Housing Worker to provide a welcoming front desk presence, answer tenant questions, and support housing operations. The role emphasizes trauma-informed engagement, case management, and skill-building for tenants within a supportive, client-centered framework.

Responsibilities include intake, assessment, and coordinating with staff to ensure safe, accessible housing, crisis intervention, and ongoing welfare checks on weekends.

Qualifications

• Diploma or degree in social services required or equivalent experience.
• Understanding of homelessness, poverty, discrimination realities, and client-centered approaches.
• Experience working in residential settings with people experiencing homelessness is valued.

Responsibilities

• Provide welcoming front desk service for Housing and keep the Housing Office open as much as possible.
• Use trauma-informed, conflict-resolving approaches to support tenants in living cooperatively.
• Perform intake, assessment and case management using a client-centered, harm-reduction approach.

Skills

Front desk responsibilities

Crisis intervention

Case management

Trauma-informed practice

Conflict resolution

Facilitation

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Diploma or degree in social services

Experience with homelessness in residential settings

Tools

Microsoft Office

Pirouette

Arcori

Job description

INTERNAL/EXTERNALPosition Type: Bargaining Unit, Permanent, Part-TimeNumber of Positions: 1Reason for Posting: Existing Vacancy

Rate: $25.72 per hourVacation: 8% Vacation PayHours: 15 hours per week, Saturdays and SundaysPosting Date: October 22, 2026Application Deadline: November 2, 2026Location: 4626 Kingston Road, Scarborough

Why Fred Victor?

For 130 years, Fred Victor has been a leader in helping people rebuild their lives in Toronto. Our mission is to improve the health, income and housing stability of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. We arecommitted to ending homelessness, one person at a time.Kingston Road Housing –provides safe deeply affordable housing for single people who are experiencing poverty, chronic homelessness and often the long-term effects of trauma, social isolation, varying degrees of mental health and substance use. Kingston Road Housing provides Housing with supports, including case management, on site 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We work from a client centered, harm reduction, trauma informed, anti-oppressive framework.

Does this sound like work you want to be a part of?We offer a supportive environment, an opportunity to join a diverse team of caring professionals and a chance to make a difference. With over 75 programs and 25 sites, there are lots of opportunities to grow your career with us.Many members of the management team started in relief and front-line roles.

What You Will Do

• Provide a welcoming, friendly and professional Front Desk for Housing and keep the Housing Office open as often as possible. This includes but is not limited to answering the phones, fielding tenant questions andconcerns, signing in guests, signing out keys, taking work orders, crisis intervention, assisting with tenantmedication, giving notices to tenants and liaising with other workers and professionals.
• Utilize trauma informed community development, facilitative management, and conflict resolution approaches to facilitate supportive, co-operative living and support tenants to develop skills to live cooperatively in their accommodation.
• Provide intake, assessment and case management services, utilizing a client-centered, strength-based, harm reduction approach to clients
• Coach or assist a client in the development/maintenance of abilities relating to activities of daily living, self-care, crisis management strategies, symptom management, maintaining a support network, and skills teaching suchas budgeting, grocery shopping and other life skills.
• Ensure case plans which have been developed are continuing to be followed on the weekends
• Ensure all eviction prevention strategies and policies are implemented.
• Work with the tenant community to understand the Fred Victor Mission, Vision and Values and how they relate to being a tenant and participating in FV programming and services.
• Work collaboratively with other FV staff in order to provide the best service possible to all and in order to ensure the safety of all.
• Communicate and demonstrate appropriate professional boundaries with the tenant community and abide by all organizational policies and procedures.

What You Bring to the Team

• Diploma or Degree in social Services field and/or experience working with people experiencinghomelessness in a residential setting
• Strong understanding of systems that cause and support homelessness, poverty and discrimination and respect for those realities.
• Strong understanding that people living on low income are a resource to resolve community issues and not the cause of the problem.

What Sets You Apart

• Highly developed and proven group facilitation skills.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
• Strong understanding of and experience in community development practices.
• Well-developed conflict resolution and negotiation skills and crisis management skills.
• Ability to work productively within a team setting.
• Strong organizational skills; highly developed ability to prioritize work through short and long term goals and remain flexible.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills that will produce effective, productive and appropriate relationships with the tenants, community, external agencies and staff at Fred Victor.
• Proven ability to constructively give and receive feedback.
• Highly developed understanding of and proven ability to communicate appropriate professional boundaries.
• Proven ability to challenge organization, staff and tenant communities in a positive and creative way to effect better service.
• Knowledge of community based resources.
• Experience with and proven responsibility handling money.
• Literacy in Microsoft Office, Pirouette and Arcori (an asset)

Compensation and Benefits

• For the Weekend Housing Worker position, Fred Victor offers an hourly rate of $25.72
• 8% vacation pay
• Access to employee and family assistance plan

A Police Record Check is required by the final candidate prior to hiring.

Accessibility & Accommodation

Fred Victor is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment where employees feel valued and respected, and where every employee has the opportunity to realize their potential. As such, we welcome andencourage applicants who identify as racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons across the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identities and have lived-experienceIf you are a person with a disability and require accommodation and/or assistance during the application process, please contact us in advance. We strive to provide reasonable accommodations whenever requested. Information received relating to accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality.