TPYS - Awake Overnight Youth Worker (2026-213-YPS)

Competition #2026-213-YPSTPYS - Awake Overnight Youth Worker (2026-213-YPS)Employment Type:(12 months) Contract Salary, CUPE Bargaining Unit (1 vacancy)Work Hours:40 hours/week, Monday - Friday 12am - 8amWork Setting:Exclusively On-Site (Clifton Program)Salary:$51,279.44Application Deadline:May 11, 2026 by 11:59 pm

Program Overview – Youth Justice 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.
• 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.
• 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 timeframes.
• Effectively utilize communication systems to convey client and program related information.
• Maintain responsible oversight of agency finances and assets.
• Maintain adequate upkeep of the physical plant and property (interior and exterior).