Community Development Housing Worker, Kingston Road Housing

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

Job Title:

Community Development Housing Worker, Kingston Road Housing

Position Type:

Bargaining Unit, Full‐Time, Permanent

Number of Positions:

1

Rate:

$29.40 per hour

Vacation:

4 weeksto start

Benefits:

Group benefits with Life Insurance, AD&D, Extended Health and Dental Care with premiums 100% paid by the employer, LTD with premiums 100% paid by employees; paid sick leave and float day

RRSP:

RRSP with 6.5% employer contribution and 4% employee contribution after successful completion of probation

Hours:

37.5 hours per week, M-F evening and day shifts (rotational)

Supervisor:

Senior Manager, Kingston Road Housing

Posting Date:

October 7, 2025

Application Deadline:

October 20, 2025

Location:

4628 Kingston Road, Toronto

Why Fred Victor?

For 130 years, Fred Victor has been a leader in helping people rebuild their lives in Toronto. Our mission is to improve the health, income and housing stability of people experiencing poverty and homelessness. We are committed to ending homelessness, one person at a time.

Kingston Road Housing – provides safe deeply affordable housing for single people who are experiencing poverty, chronic homelessness and often the long-term effects of trauma, social isolation, varying degrees of mental health and substance use. Kingston Road Housing provides Housing with supports, including case management, on site 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. We work from a client centered, harm reduction, trauma informed, anti-oppressive framework.

Does this sound like work you want to be a part of?

We offer a collaborative and supportive environment, an opportunity to join a diverse team of caring professionals and a chance to make a difference. With over 75 programs and more than 25 sites, there are lots of opportunities to grow your career with us. Many members of the management team started in relief and front-line roles.

What You Will Do:

• The focus of the position is to work with chronically homeless tenants to access and maintain alternative supported housing with focus on supporting clients experiencing social isolation.
• Encourage tenant participation in the development of short and long term goals, community development strategies, using a facilitative management approach to promote independent living and the safety and enjoyment of their housing.
• This position will focus on community development and will plan, facilitate and engage with group programming, workshops and activities for the tenants.
• Plan and facilitate regular programming for tenants that promotes social inclusion.
• Engage with other service providers, both internal and external to Fred Victor in order to deliver programming and workshops to tenants.
• Facilitate regular monthly tenant meetings and encourage tenant leadership in those meetings.
• Complete a community needs assessment in order to plan appropriate community development activities.
• Conduct regular case management meetings, develop case support plans, housing plans and short and long-term housing goals with clients.
• Maintain up-to-date case management files, including accurate client progress notes.
• Provide intake, assessment and case management services, utilizing a client-centered, strength-based, harm reduction approach to clients actively using substances.
• Coach or assist a client in the development/maintenance of abilities relating to activities of daily living, self-care, crisis management strategies, symptom management, maintaining a support network, and skills teaching such as budgeting, grocery shopping and other life skills.
• Assess the client’s support needs weekly based on indicators of stability (i.e. daily living skills, housing stabilization, finances, connection to primary healthcare, social networks, etc.)
• Draft clear coordinated care plans (CCPs) for each client that advance client’s immediate needs and mid-term goals. Reassess and adjust those plans periodically throughout the service.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Strong understanding of and experience in community development practices.
• This position will use a trauma informed, harm reduction, client centered, anti-oppressive approach to all of their work. This position requires respect for, and expertise working with, tenants who are facing mental and physical health issues, active substance use, history of trauma, abuse and social isolation and who come from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds.
• Extensive experience working with people who have experienced homelessness and poverty; understanding of the issues of homelessness, poverty and discrimination facing this community and how these issues affect the lives of individuals.
• Highly developed and proven group facilitation skills.
• Strong commitment to harm reduction, trauma informed, anti-oppressive and client- centered principles.

What Sets You Apart:

• Demonstrated experience in conflict resolution and crisis management.
• Lived experience.
• Strong customer service skills
• Extensive knowledge of community based resources
• Proven ability to challenge organization, staff and tenant communities in a positive and creative way to effect better service.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills that will produce effective, productive and appropriate relationships with the tenants, community, external agencies and staff at Fred Victor.
• Strong teamwork
• Highly developed understanding of and proven ability to communicate appropriate professional boundaries
• Highly developed ability to plan and prioritize work
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Literacy in Word, Pirouette, Excel

Compensation and Benefits:

• For the Community Development Housing Worker, Fred Victor offers a pay rate of $29.40 per hour.
• 4 weeks of vacation to start + 1 float day
• Generous paid sick leave allowance
• A comprehensive Dental, Extended Health and LTD group benefits package includes individual and family coverage, including prescriptions, hospital accommodation, hearing care, paramedical practitioners and a wide variety of dental care. Additional insurance includes vision care and travel for emergency medical services.
• 6.5 % of your gross salary will be contributed to a group RRSP on your behalf after successful completion of probation; you will contribute 4% of your gross salary to the same RRSP.
• Access to employee and family assistance plan

How You Can Apply

Send your resume and an email describing why you want to be part of the Fred Victor Team by October 20, 2025 to Maria Nazarova at mnazarova@fredvictor.org with ‘Community Development Housing Worker’ in the subject line.

A Police Record Check is required by the final candidate prior to hiring.

Accessibility & Accommodation

Fred Victor is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment where employees feel valued and respected, and where every employee has the opportunity to realize their potential. As such, we welcome and encourage applicants who identify as racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons across the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identities and have lived-experience

If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation and/or assistance during the application process, please contact us in advance. We strive to provide reasonable accommodations whenever requested. Information received relating to accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality.