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Purpose

Come join the dynamic team at Intersect Youth and Family Services in the hub to the North, Prince George BC.  We are actively recruiting a permanent, full-time Family Mediator to work with youth ages 12-18 years and their caregivers.  Parent Teen mediation provides an alternative process for parents, caregivers and youth experiencing conflict, to resolve their difficulties through mediation.  As the successful applicant of this position, you will work with the entire family in their home or the office providing mediation, education, communication skill development, and recommendations for community support. 

Mediation services focus on improving family communication and functioning to decrease conflict between youth and their caregivers; thereby preserving family connection as well as promoting family reunification.  The mediator will respond to the family’s immediate crisis needs and are familiar with the range of professional and community-based resources for youth and families.  We want the right person for our clients and for our team, so our start date is negotiable.   

About Intersect

Intersect Youth & Family Services (IYFS) is located in Prince George, BC and has been providing services to the community for over 40 years at no cost. It is a CARF accredited, non-profit society governed by a Board of Directors. The Society was incorporated in 1983; its mission is to develop, coordinate and deliver a comprehensive range of services to youth, children and families in Northern British Columbia. Primarily funded by the Ministry of Children and Family Development, Intersect has a surplus of experiences, education and therapeutic styles aimed to suit children and youth’s specific needs.

Intersect Youth & Family Services provides voluntary counselling for children and youth under the age of 19, offering a wide variety of programs to clients and their families at no cost. These services/programs include New Directions Youth Justice, Family Teen Mediation, Infant Mental Health, Sexual Abuse Intervention and Child and Youth Mental Health. For full program descriptions, please check out our website.

What are we looking for in you?

• A healthy relationship with yourself and others including great communication skills and the ability to have some laughs.  We like fun!
• You have excellent interpersonal communication skills and easily develop and maintain therapeutic relationships to work with everyone supporting the youth.
• You aren’t scared of conflict and look at it as a healthy part of relationships when done in a respectful and productive way.
• You have a bachelor level degree in Social Work, Child & Youth Care, Education, Counselling or other human/social science degree (or you are close to finishing).
• You’ve worked with youth and their families in a supportive role, through times of stress and in a therapeutic way.
• A passion for being part of the team to learn from and share your knowledge with.
• A driver’s license, reliable vehicle and a drivers abstract that shows you can safely drive our clients and our work vehicles.   
• That our clients will be safe in your care by completing a criminal record and vulnerable persons check.

What can you expect from us?

• An eclectic team happy to support you, share their knowledge and have some fun with you too.   
• A leadership team committed to supporting you and helping you develop your skills through robust orientation, ongoing and regularly scheduled support from your supervisor.
• An agency committed to your professional development though agency paid training and a personal annual training budget for the skills you are interested in developing.
• Four day work week!!!  A consistent extended workday, meaning you only work 4 days a week; Monday-Thursday from 9:00am till 7:00 pm. 
• Full extended health and dental package through Pacific Blue Cross for you and your family including a confidential Employee Assistance Plan.
• Employer RRSP plan with the option of withdrawing funds at a later date to purchase your first home, fund education etc.
• A competitive wage with wage increases every year. Our 6-step wage grid starts at $33.08 hourly but depending on your experience, you could start at a higher step up to $40.03 hourly.
• You get paid sick time, paid vacation time, paid mental health time, paid family responsibility time, paid personal training time on top of having flex banks.

Intersect values diversity.  If you need assistance to accommodate a disability, you may request an accommodation at any time. If you have any questions at all about our team, the work we do, the fun we have, the benefits we get, our wages etc, please email me, Shannon at executivedirector@intersect.bc.ca.

To apply for this exciting opportunity you can: email your resume to me at executivedirector@intersect.bc.ca; fax it to 250-562-4692 Resumes will be reviewed January 31st-we will only contact those shortlisted for an interview.  This posting will remain open on our website until the position is filled. www.intersect.bc.ca.