community worker
Employment Type: Part-Time, Permanent Position Status: New position Work Hours: 25 hours per week, (Saturday & Sunday - 9am – 9pm), plus 4 hours monthly for meetings.
Salary: $61,479 prorated to $43,913 annually (L7), plus comprehensive benefits Location: 389 Church Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2E5 Internal Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 07, 2026 External Application Deadline: Friday, October 09, 2026 JOIN OUR TEAM Join YWCA Toronto, where intersectional feminism, community voices, and social justice drive lasting change.
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The Weekend Community Wellness Worker is responsible for supporting tenancy through eviction prevention; developing and implementing community initiatives with the goal of creating a dynamic and inclusive community; and engagement with the broader community through a trauma-informed, harm reduction and AOP lens that meets the emotional, practical and social support needs of the tenant community.
Staff provide follow-up support, crisis intervention, and community-building initiatives to ensure a safe, welcoming, and supportive environment for residents during weekend hours.
The role focuses on promoting holistic well-being, facilitating recreational and social activities, addressing immediate tenancy needs, and maintaining operational continuity when core weekday services are reduced.
ABOUT YWCA TORONTO – HOUSING SUPPORT PROGRAM, CHURCH STREET The YWCA Toronto Church Street facility includes 120 units of permanent housing.
The Weekend Community Wellness Worker is responsible for providing Case Management support to women and gender-diverse people including: individuals with complex mental health issues and who are chronically homeless or at risk of homelessness; individuals transitioning from provincially-funded institutions and service systems such as hospitals or prisons; Indigenous women/two-spirit people.
The program goals include housing stabilization, harm reduction, and health promotion.
Individual and group support assists tenants to identify and build the skills required to address the barriers they experience in their lives and to maintain their housing.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Uses effective eviction prevention measures to assist tenants to assume and maintain their tenancy obligations ; Provides crisis prevention, intervention and counseling for women and children and gender diverse people to respond to crisis in ways that support individual and community well-being; Assists tenants to resolve issues of outstanding arrears; Works with a tenant support network and referral partners to develop individualized support plans that identify ongoing housing and mental health/addictions support ; Design, organize, and facilitate engaging weekend community activities, drop-in sessions, and recreational events ; Monitor building access, complete regular floor checks, and ensure adherence to facility policies and procedures ; Applies the use of trauma informed practices to support individuals and community engagement/ development; Assists tenants in identifying goals and creating a service plan to achieve these goals; Brings innovative community engagement and capacity building with marginalized and mixed communities; Creates programming specifically designed to build community capacity with the use of a harm reduction framework that will give individuals and groups of residents the opportunity to develop and use harm reduction strategies in all aspects of their lives (health, relationships, independent life skills, housing, etc.).
QUALIFICATIONS General knowledge of an academic or technical discipline normally acquired through the completion of an undergraduate degree (example: Bachelor of Social Work); 3 - 5 years directly related experience workin