Counsellor - Social Prescribing Navigator

3 weeks ago


Ottawa, Canada Carlington Community Health Centre Full time

The Social Prescribing Navigator (SPN), connects clients to appropriate resources based on clients’ identified interests and needs, and supports their journey to full well-being. The SPN bridges the gap between clinical and social care while working with inter-professional health providers to refer clients to community-based programs. The SPN provides crisis intervention, outreach, information, support, advocacy and short-term supportive counselling to clients of the Social Prescribing Program. The SPN works closely with the Crisis Intake counsellor to support this role and provides relief for this position when required.
**Program-Related Activities**
- Engages and manages assessments and referrals for social activities to help enhance a sense of well-being for clients referred by inter-professional health providers and/or as a self-referral.
- Provides risk assessments, personal and practical support, information, referral and advocacy for clients. Assesses clients’ health status by gaining an understanding of their social determinants of health.
- Acts as an advocate for individual and systemic issues.
- Provides crisis intervention services both in person and over the telephone.
- Maintains information and liaisons with the Link2Feed program with the Ottawa Food Bank to address the food security clients.
- Liaises and collaborates with staff and other community service providers to provide services and make referrals.
- Participates in the community of practice table for social prescribing at the Alliance for Healthier Communities.
- Participates in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of treatment, education, counselling and health promotion programs and services for individuals, families and the community through the social prescribing program.



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