Enhanced Youth Outreach Worker (Brantford)

Enhanced Youth Outreach Worker (Brantford) Posting #

• 4316
• Posting
• Date:
• June 19, 2026
• Posting
• Closing: July 2, 2026 Have you heard of us? Wesley is a long-standing local non-profit and living wage organization. We are passionate about our work advocating for harm reduction, housing, poverty eradication and food security in Hamilton, Halton and Brantford. We’re committed to diversity & inclusion and a healthy work life balance. We would love for you to join our team!

Are you the one we’re looking for?

We are seeking a dynamic, highly motivated Enhanced Youth Outreach Worker (Brantford) who demonstrates our values of compassion, accountability, responsiveness and empowerment; to our clients, families and each other.

The Enhanced Youth Outreach Worker will work with the Provincial Youth Outreach Workers team, providing intensive one-on-one, short-term counseling support to high-risk youth ages 12 to 21 (can go as young as 6 and as old as 25) and their families to prevent youth from further risk / violence. This is a permanent, full-time (40 hours per week), unionized position beginning August 3, 2026. Rate of pay is $27.69/ hour. Successful candidate will work primarily Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00pm to 8:00pm.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide short-term, counselling and support services to high-risk youth in accordance with the Stages of Change intervention model adapted for the Provincial Youth Outreach Worker Program.
• Provide intensive case management support that is client centered, with goal-based planning and a case plan for each client.
• Collaborate with the Provincial Youth Outreach Worker team to identify youth who may require additional, more intensive services, and to align support services for individual youth.
• Report clinically to the Manager of Community Youth Services.
• Meet regularly and develop a positive relationship with the various partner agencies.
• Develop and oversee a short-term case management plan for high-risk youth, and support youth by: Helping youth to identify their needs, goals, aspirations, skills and abilities as well as barriers to accessing services; Helping youth to build resiliency, pro-social skills and other protective factors to address their various risk factors; Helping youth to address the specific incidents / risk factors that may bring them into conflict with peers, family, and / or the law; Providing youth with general information, contacts, referrals and support as needed to build assets and address needs (e.g., housing, employment, education, health care and recreation; social and emotional issues); and Referring youth to appropriate services in the community, and supporting them to access these services.