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Support Worker (Life Redesign Coach)

@ Connect Communities

Lake Country, British Columbia

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Connect Communities is hiring a Life Redesign Coach for its CONNECT Lake Country site, supporting people after brain injury and stroke. The role coaches residents toward meaningful goals through daily living, community participation and recreation, with on-the-job training provided and hiring based on fit rather than qualifications. Personal care may be needed, and the posting states a full benefits package and competitive wages.

Responsibilities:

  • Coach residents toward personal Life Redesign goals
  • Support daily living, exercise and meal preparation
  • Facilitate community outings and recreation
  • Provide personal care when needed

Requirements summary:

  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
  • Vulnerable sector criminal record check
  • First Aid with CPR and Food Safe
  • Valid driver's licence with abstract
  • Brain injury and care experience an asset

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Retirement plan
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Employer posting date
2026-03-10
First seen by our source
2026-10-08
Source record updated
2026-11-07

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Job details

SeniorityEntry level
DepartmentSocial & community services
Travelair: none · ground: minimal
Work settingClient sites, Home, Outdoors
PositionSitting and standing
Physical demandsphysical moderate · computer low
LanguagesEnglish
Licences & certificationsFirst Aid with CPR, Food Safe
Driver’s licencerequired
Background checkscriminal record
Perks mentionedRetirement plan, Paid training

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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
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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.

FieldValue
IndustryHospitals and Health Care
Company size201-500 employees
HeadquartersVancouver, British Columbia
Organization typePrivately Held
Year founded1993
Specialtiesbrain injury rehab and transitional and residential rehabilitation
Open jobs on Jobsy12
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Job description

Job Description

Join our team to make a difference to British Columbians after brain injury and stroke!

We’re looking for awesome people to join our team as Life Redesign Coach - CONNECT Lake Country.

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. In Lake Country.

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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