Awake Overnight Youth Worker; -YPS

Awake Overnight Youth Worker

Employment Type: Full Time

Work Hours: 40 hours/week Monday – Friday 12am‑8am

Work Setting: Exclusively On‑Site (Withrow Program)

Salary: $51,279.44

Final date to receive applications: January 20, 2026 by 11:59 pm

Wood Green 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.

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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, 2

SLGBTQIA+ persons, and others who contribute towards promoting innovative ideas and solutions.

Turning Point Youth Services (TPYS) is an accredited, non‑profit agency serving youth (12 to 24 years of age) and their families in the east end of Toronto. Turning Point’s mission is to empower youth to make positive change, and 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 Wood Green 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.

• Promote a safe and therapeutic environment and establish therapeutic relationships with clients through role modelling 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.
• 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 themes of psychotherapy techniques delivered through a therapeutic relationship.
• Provide direct, client care and supervision to clients in the live‑in program.
• 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 time frames.
• 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.
• 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 availability across the system (as applicable).
• Assist in ensuring that all documentation and information related to level determination is communicated to the supervisor in a timely manner (as applicable).
• Represent the Agency in a professional manner when dealing with families, external professionals, general public and community partners.
• Perform other duties as required.

• University or College degree and/or diploma in Child & Youth Work and/or Bachelor of Social Work.
• Some relevant experience, preferably in congregate care child and youth work.
• Demonstrated understanding of the complex issues and challenges facing our clients.
• Good communication…