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Casual Support Worker (Life Redesign Coach)
@ Connect Communities
Hamilton, Ontario
Overview
Connect Communities is hiring a casual Life Redesign Coach for CONNECT Hamilton to support people after brain injury and stroke. The role uses coaching to help people set and reach goals in real-life community settings, with on-the-job training provided and hiring based on fit rather than qualifications. The posting states competitive wages and a full benefits package.
Responsibilities:
- Coach residents to set and achieve Life Redesign goals
- Support daily routines, exercise programs and personal care
- Assist with community outings, recreation and meal preparation
- Work as part of a multi-professional coaching team
Requirements summary:
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
- Ability to stay calm in challenging situations
- Comfort providing personal care
- Experience with brain injury or care an asset
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Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-02
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-07
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Social & community services |
| Travel | air: none · ground: minimal |
| Work setting | Care home, Client sites, Vehicle |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Licences & certifications | First Aid with CPR, Food Safe, Drivers' Abstract, Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Check |
| Driver’s licence | required |
| Background checks | vulnerable sector |
| Perks mentioned | Retirement plan, Paid training |
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Connect Communities
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Making lives better
Full company description
Making Lives Better CONNECT offers a better way after brain injury. For 20 years, CONNECT has provided rehab services and support, hope and a place to live for people at all levels of ability. With locations in Lake Country and Langley, BC, we coach transitional and residential residents to set and reach their goals, nurture and build relationships in their communities and redesign their realities.
- LinkedIn followers
- 405
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 105
- Reported office locations
- 1000-1200 W 73rd Ave, Vancouver, British Columbia V6P 6G5, CA
- 20445 73a Avenue, Langley, BC, CA
- 11438 Bottom Wood Lake Rd, Lake Country, BC, CA
- 8 Columbus Gate, Stoney Creek, Ontario L8J 2S1, CA
- 2477 Mount Newton Cross Rd, Central Saanich, British Columbia V8M 2B8, CA
- 365 Moilliet St S, Parksville, British Columbia V9P 1K1, CA
- Business categories
- Residential
- Health Care
- Rehabilitation
- Other recorded names
- Connect Communities
- CONNECT Communities
- Specialties
- brain injury rehab and transitional and residential rehabilitation
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Making Lives Better CONNECT offers a better way after brain injury. For 20 years, CONNECT has provided rehab services and support, hope and a place to live for people at all levels of ability. With locations in Lake Country and Langley, BC, we coach transitional and residential residents to set and reach their goals, nurture and build relationships in their communities and redesign their realities.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hospitals and Health Care |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1993 |
| Specialties | brain injury rehab and transitional and residential rehabilitation |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 12 |
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Job Description
Join our team to make a difference to people after brain injury and stroke!
We’re looking for awesome people to join our team as Life Redesign Coach - CONNECT Hamilton.
As a Life Redesign Coach, you will join a Coaching Resource team of professional support staff (OT, PT, SLP, etc.), including service resource, people resource, decision support, and admin coaches to deliver the CONNECT promise – Life Redesign after brain injury and stroke.
As a Life Redesign Coach, you will work in partnership with the people who live at CONNECT. Using coaching methods, you will help the people we support set and achieve goals based on what is most meaningful to them. A typical day can include helping people with: Getting ready for the day, completing exercise programs, personal care, getting out into the community, participating in recreation, community events and leisure interests, meal preparation, and, most importantly, helping them reach their individual Life Redesign goals.
Becoming a Life Redesign Coach does not require you to have a care aide background. CONNECT will provide you with an orientation and training on the job. We hire based on fit, not qualifications.
*Note: must be comfortable providing personal care when the need arises. Personal care includes helping someone get in/out of bed, washing, showering, bathing, cleaning teeth, shaving, going to the toilet, managing incontinence, eating, feeding and supporting nutrition through tube delivered products.
The Life Redesign Model includes:
- A culture of personal accountability, supported risk taking, social capital and meaningful community participation;
- Services planned around what the person wants more of in life. Participation in relevant life situations drives the residents’ goals;
- Service plans leveraging neuroplasticity by pursuing a person’s goals in real-life, non-institutional settings;
- A “doing-with” coaching approach with blended job roles and a multi-professional coaching team;
- Hire for fit based on personality and values, not qualifications.
Our values are: Kindness, Flexibility, Creativity, Learning, Passion and Joy. If these values resonate with you, and if you’re interested in a diverse and rewarding career, we would love to hear from you!
Qualifications:
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills – must enjoy working with, and helping others;
- Strong organizational skills with an ability to be flexible when needed;
- Ability to make connections with people in order to encourage and support them to achieve their goals;
- Strong problem-solving skills, including conflict resolution;
- Ability to be self-directed and work as part of a team;
- Ability to remain calm in challenging situations;
- Experience working with brain injury an asset; and
- Experience providing care an asset.
Job Requirements:
- Satisfactory Ministry of Justice Criminal Record Check (Vulnerable Sector);
- First Aid with CPR;
- Food Safe
- Documented evidence of Current TB status (less than 30 days old);
- Self-declaration of Immunization Status;
- Valid Drivers’ License with Drivers’ Abstract.
What we offer:
- Competitive wages;
- Full benefits package, including group retirement plan;
- Ongoing training and education opportunities; and
- A rewarding career!
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