Job Description
Position Title: Rural Homelessness Outreach Worker
Date Posted: Friday, October 23, 2025
Competition File No.: 2025-72
Program Area: Community Initiatives & Employment Services
Worksite Location: Saugeen Shores
Travel Requirement: Yes, across Grey and Bruce Counties
Position Type: Permanent Full Time Category: #1
Existing Vacancy: Yes No. of Vacancies: 1
Hours: 37.5 of hours per week
Shifts: Days; Monday – Friday
Salary/Wage: $30.72 – $34.91 per hour
Wages commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Start Date: As soon as possible.
Application Deadline: Friday, November 7, 2025
Application Process: Email resume, cover letter and YMCA Employment/Volunteer Application Form to: Director of Community Initiatives and Employment Services at employment@osgb.ymca.ca. Include the Job Title and Competition File Number in your subject line. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
The Y is people-powered. Our staff and volunteers provide the spark that helps ignite positive change in the lives of others.
Your Opportunity to be the Spark!
As a charity igniting the potential in people, we are seeking an energetic, positive and passionate person to provide rural homelessness outreach across Bruce County. Focusing on individualized outreach with people experiencing homelessness, staff provide initial engagement and transitional support, offering safe alternatives and evaluating immediate and root causes contributing to individual homelessness.
Responsibilities:
- Support the provision of a high standard of case led management with vulnerable, at risk people to facilitate the development of positive relationships, positive social and community engagement and support informed decision-making.
- Liaise with landlords and room providers to secure and maintain both temporary and permanent housing options throughout Grey and Bruce Counties.
- Work with people to identify their needs and develop a plan to deliver targeted strengths-based supports that focus on the individuals housing needs and aspirations.
- Identify highly vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness and use a variety of assessment tools to facilitate placement into emergency and short-term housing.
- Conduct thorough initial assessments and intake activities.
- Partner with Bruce County Housing to assist with making short-term housing placements, enrolling in the housing queue for permanent housing placements, and identifying individuals that may have been previously assessed.
- Coordinate emergency housing supports for individuals and families who are in crisis.
- Coordinate individualized plans to exit homelessness.
- Attend encampments to provide targeted outreach and support.
- Build relationships with people in need of shelter, provide advocacy, and assist with connecting individuals experiencing homelessness with a variety of preferred services and housing options through intensive and individualized case planning.
- Working with the team, ensuring case plans are culturally appropriate and include input from relevant cultural supports.
- Work closely with other organizations to coordinate supports to assist with housing stability.
- Connect clients to required health and social services.
- Provide on-going assistance to clients to support housing retention.
- Develop hopeful solutions when resilient people need it most.
- Create and maintain accurate, fulsome and timely documentation and case management notes.
Just Some of the Benefits of Working at the YMCA:
- Comprehensive and ongoing training and long-term and upward career opportunities.
- Free membership to our Health, Fitness and Aquatics facility.
- Flexible work schedules.
- Medical, dental, and pension benefits (eligibility based on number of hours worked)
- Fun, passionate and dependable co-workers.
Job Requirements:
- Be a minimum of 18 years of age.
- Be legally entitled to work in Canada.
- Have current and satisfactory Criminal Reference Check and Vulnerable Sector Search issued no later than ninety (90) days preceding your start date.
- Have minimum Class G Driver’s License; own vehicle and valid insurance, and be willing and able to travel throughout Grey and Bruce Counties.
- Provide 3 professional references.
- Have post-secondary degree/diploma in Social Services or related discipline.
- Have three (3) years of experience in providing outreach services with vulnerable and resilient people and have case management experience
- Have the ability to be adaptive and creative, with excellent critical thinking skills.
- Have knowledge of local supports and services.
The YMCA’s Commitment to Protecting Those We Serve:
We are committed to our responsibility to protect the children and other vulnerable people we serve. Therefore, all employees and volunteers must provide a current satisfactory Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Search results as a condition of their employment or volunteer engagement. These police record checks are reviewed on an individual basis, and the offense(s) – if any – is considered in the decision-making process in relation to the requirements of the position, therefore not eliminating all candidates with a record from being offered gainful employment.
The YMCA’s Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Equality:
The YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce values the diversity of people and communities and is committed to excellence and inclusion in our Association. We are committed to an environment that is barrier free. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please inform us in advance to arrange reasonable and appropriate accommodation.
