TPYS - Awake Overnight Youth Worker (2025-538-YPS)

WoodGreen Community Services; Toronto; On-site; CAD 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A community services organization in Toronto is seeking an Awake Overnight Youth Worker responsible for supervising and supporting youth in a live-in program. The candidate should promote a safe environment, assist with care tasks, and maintain client records. Required qualifications include a degree in Child & Youth Work or Social Work, relevant experience, and various certifications. This permanent full-time role includes 40 hours per week. Salary starts at $49,785.86.

Qualifications

• Some relevant experience in congregate care child and youth work.
• Sensitivity to diverse client groups.
• Valid Ontario G driver’s licence is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Promote a safe and therapeutic environment for clients.
• Provide direct care and supervision to clients.
• Maintain client records in accordance with agency standards.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Crisis intervention

Client care

Education

University or College degree in Child & Youth Work or Bachelor of Social Work

Tools

First Aid/CPR Certification

Understanding and Managing Aggressive Behaviour Certification

Job description

Job Summary

Competition #2025-538-YPS – TPYS - Awake Overnight Youth Worker (2025-538-YPS)

• Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, CUPE Bargaining Unit (1 vacancy)
• Work Hours: 40 hours per week Monday-Friday 0000‑0800hrs; Starting at 2359hrs on Sunday night
• Work Setting: Exclusively On‑Site (Redwood Program)
• Salary: $49,785.86
• Application Deadline: December 29, 2025 by 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, racialised 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 Justice 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 modelling 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 trauma‑informed lens, offer and actualise 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 the thematics 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 utilises communication systems to convey client and programme related information.
• 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.
• 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 licence, and comfortable 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‑centred, anti‑racism, harm reduction, and trauma‑informed approach is required.
• Demonstrate knowledge of issues affecting marginalised communities, policies, legislation, programmes, and other issues related to scope of practice and social determinants of health.
• Experience working with diverse and marginalised 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.