Full job description

At Pacific Coast Children’s Resources, we have provided personalized services to children and youth living with diverse abilities since 2010. Today we offer our services throughout many communities in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, and the Kootenays. We offer a wide range of dynamic and comprehensive programs and are committed to:

• The values and principles of inclusive community living
• Providing person-centred services that respect the person’s choice and dignity
• Ensuring cultural diversity and lifestyle choices are recognized and incorporated when developing supports
• Empowering people with disabilities to live the life they envision

About the Role
The Assistant Manager shall have the personality, ability, and temperament necessary to interact with the people we support in a manner that will respect and maintain the persons’ spirit, dignity and individuality.

The Assistant Manager shall be responsible for assisting the Manager in the daily operation and leadership of the service ensuring that each person receiving care is provided the opportunity and support for independence, learning and self-expression according to their abilities and choices.

You will use your expertise to make a significant contribution to the children, youth, caregivers, and communities we serve. Through a family-centred approach, you will provide support in a safe home environment to children and youth who may have experienced complex trauma and present complex behaviours, as well as people with diverse abilities receiving services through the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD.) Your natural ability to care for others, working both independently and collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team, will allow you to influence your team’s success.

You will

• Ensure all professional program plans are implemented, regularly reviewed and updated in consideration of the total needs of each person
• Promote active advocacy for each person living in the home
• Ensure the people receiving support are provided assistance and instruction as required in all aspects of their daily lives
• Ensure the persons have realistic choices in community recreational and leisure activities and that these activities are explored, evaluated and maintained on an individual basis
• Support each person in the development and maintenance of family and personal relationships
• Act as a liaison between the person’s home, families and community resources
• Monitor the health and safety of the persons and ensure preventative techniques are in place
• Ensure that the home is maintained in a neat and clean state at all times
• Ensure all transportation needs for supported persons are met, including driving their own or Company owned vehicles when required