Posted 2 months ago
Community Disability Worker (CP) - Diego House
@ CSS
Edmonton, Alberta
Overview
Catholic Social Services is hiring a contract part-time Community Disability Worker in Edmonton, 36 hours per week, for its Diego House team. The role supports individuals with disabilities in daily living, behaviour support and health monitoring, and runs on a rotating weekly schedule through November 30, 2027, paying $19.37 to $20.56 per hour.
Pay:
$19.37–$20.56 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Assess client needs and monitor behaviour and health changes
- Implement behaviour support plans and follow the ISP
- Administer medication and provide personal care
- Plan meals and maintain the home and yard
- Document log notes, incident reports and expenses
Requirements summary:
- High school diploma required
- Minimum 1 year working with developmental disabilities, behaviour, mental health or addictions
- NVCI training upon hire
- Vulnerable Sector Check and Child Intervention Record Check
- Human Services or Social Work diploma is an asset
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · dayforce-feed
- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-25
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-13
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-15
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Social & community services |
| Experience | 1+ years |
| Hours per week | 36 |
| Schedule | day, evening |
| Travel | air: none · ground: minimal |
| Work setting | Home, Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer low |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | NVCI, Vulnerable Sector Check, Child Intervention Record Check |
| Background checks | vulnerable sector |
| Education | High school (required) |
| Fields of study | Human Services, Social Work |
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| Open jobs on Jobsy | 103 |
Catholic Social Services is currently seeking contract part time, 36 hours per week, Community Disability Worker in EDMONTON to join our Diego House team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community.
This position has a weekly schedule of: Monday and Tuesday 7-3, Wednesday and Thursday 2-9 and Friday 7-1. This Contract will end on November 30, 2027.
Job Duties:
- Assess needs of the Individuals served and monitor and report changes in the Individual’s behavior & health
- Assist with implementing Behavior Support Plans for Individuals with complex behavioral concerns
- Access community recreation / leisure activities and community supports, and secure transportation as needed
- Schedule Individual appointments and attend when needed and secure transportation as needed
- Follow ISP for the individual(s) living in the home
- Assist the individual served with completing their physical care tasks as outlined in their care plan
- Follow Canada's Food guide and specialized dietary requirements / preparations, plan menus and ensure safe food handling and storage practices
- Perform medication administration as directed
- Monitor and ensure Individual safety
- Respond appropriately to emergency situations
- Assist Individual to improve social skills as needed (informal counselling, modelling, observing)
- Assist in maintaining the home and equipment according to Agency standards
- Report any concerns / damage to the Team Leader or On-Call Supervisor
- Complete lawn and yard care in all seasons (mow grass, shovel snow from walkways, etc.)
- Perform Fire Marshall duties as assigned and complete related documentation
- Using Universal Precautions, complete household cleaning tasks as scheduled (dishes, wash floors, bathrooms, laundry, Individual equipment, etc.)
- Launder Individuals' clothing according to garment care guidelines and licensing requirements
- Complete log notes, incident reports, communication to team members in the communication book, and documentation of money spent in ledgers for the individual(s) living in the home
- Use computer appropriately and effectively
- Attend staff meetings and mandatory agency training
- Professionally and respectfully communicate with co-workers
- Communicate effectively with guardian/ family, professional and community contacts
What This Job Requires:
- A high school diploma
- A diploma or degree in Human Services or Social Work (or equivalent) is considered an asset
- Experience with or willingness to be trained on physical holds on the individuals that we serve
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training (NVCI) must be completed upon hire
- A minimum 1 year working with persons with developmental disabilities, behavior, mental health & addictions
- Vulnerable Sector Check issued by RCMP or City Police
- Child Intervention Record Check
What We Offer:
- The compensation for this position ranges from $19.37 to $20.56 per hour and is based on qualifications and experience.
- Benefits available when eligible.
- Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
- Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.
About Catholic Social Services:
You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.
With 65 years of service delivery experience, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with nearly 2000 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering over 100 different programs to people in need throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.
Our values are at the core of everything we do!
- Humility: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
- Compassion: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
- Respect: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.
We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Catholic Social Services is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce. In an effort to enrich our agency and reflect the communities we serve, we welcome applications from qualified individuals of all diverse groups and backgrounds.
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