Housing Support Worker - Truro Housing Outreach Society - Truro, NS
(2022-05)
- Supporting families and youth to access resources to help keep their housing sustainable
- Developing case plans centered around ensuring clients work on life related skills
- Responding to Critical crisis calls, as well as making reports when individuals appear to be a risk to themselves or others
- Managing landlord relationships in order to properly tend to possible clientele barriers
- Tracking data related to cases
- Assessing each case based on individual capacity levels and working on plans to encourage growth
- Driving clients to and from appointments
- Navigating the system for clients who lack ID's, Birth Certificates and other important documents
Support Worker - Colchester Residential Services Society - Truro, NS
(2020-10 - 2022-01)
- Implementing routines and helping to support the routines of clientele
- Administering medications in a timely manner
- Meeting deadlines
- Preparing meals and initiating activities with those supported
- Proper filing of important documentation such as incident reports, ABC's chart and doctor reports
- Frequent mediation of clients that do not get along
- Providing counselling support to clientele
- Encouraging the use of harm reduction with clients
Client Support Staff - The Truro Housing Outreach Society
(2022-01 - 2022-05)
- Encouraging client safety as well as the shelter
- Provides a non biased support
- Educates the use of harm reduction materials
- Ability to build rapport with all clients
- Maintains professionalism
- Implementation of new programs and services
- Expressing the importance of client confidentiality
