Competition # 2026-414-YPS Youth Worker (Congregate Care) - FT (2026-414-YPS)
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time, CUPE Bargaining Unit (1 vacancy)
Work Hours: 30 or 50 hours per week (Rotating week 1 50 hours/week, week 2 30 hours/week)
Work Setting: Exclusively On-Site (Everett Program - East Toronto)
Salary: $57,571.30
Application Deadline: November 06, 2026 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, racialized 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, Everett Program
Turning Point Youth Services (TPYS) is an accredited, non-profit agency serving youth (12 to 18 years of age) and their families in the east end of Toronto. Turning Point’s mission is to empower youth to make positive change, an 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 modeling 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.
Provide direct, client care and supervision to clients in the live-in program.
Perform the duties of a Primary Worker for assigned clients.
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 actualize 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 means of psychotherapy techniques delivered through a therapeutic relationship.
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 utilize communication systems to convey client and program related information.
Develop, implement, evaluate and fully participate in life skills and recreational programming, where necessary.
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.
Assume the role of Student Placement Supervisor as required (as assigned by the Supervisor based on skill and experience level)
Reconcile client medication for the program prior to supervisory signoff (as assigned by the Supervisor based on skill and experience level).
Liaise with other detention sites and the court system in order to support the level determination process of all youth in the Greater Toronto Area remanded to a detention facility by the courts (as applicable).
Place calls to determine bed…