Child and Youth Worker

Location

Hamilton, ON | Canada

Job description

The Child and Youth Workers role primarily supports the inpatient program and unit group supports. As a member of the multidisciplinary team the CYW works with the inpatient child/adolescent and their family to provide a range of resources. These include observation, assessments, education, strategies for coping, support, therapeutic interactions, and activities which offer emotional support, developmentally appropriate education related to the patient's diagnosis, and activities which augments the team's treatment plan.

The Child Youth Worker enables children, adolescents and their families to maintain optimum development, realize normal living patterns, minimize psychological trauma and maximize adjustment as they adapt to changes in health, hospitalization and life situations. Through preparation, education, therapeutic activities, and other intervention strategies, the eating disorder patient population is provided with the opportunities for gaining a sense of mastery for learning, communication, self-expression, family involvement and peer interaction.

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