Harm Reduction Worker

3 months ago

Toronto, Canada Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre Full time

**INTERNAL/EXTERNAL POSTING**

**Part-Time Contract Position**
**Queen West Site
**Harm Reduction Worker**
**Temporary Part-Time Position at 0.6 FTE (21 hours/week), up to 10-month contract,**
**Bargaining Unit - UFCW Local 175
**Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre** (Parkdale Queen West CHC) is a dynamic, community-based
health care organization serving mid-west downtown Toronto. Offering a broad range of services, including primary
health care, dental care, harm reduction, health promotion, counselling, and community development programming,
we are also committed to serving people who face barriers to health care, and we strive to reduce these barriers.
PQWCHC is a multi-sited organization.

We are seeking a Harm Reduction Worker who shares our passion for making a difference; you see this role as an
opportunity to take the next step in your successful career while contributing to a vision of **_Inclusive Communities. _**
**_Responsive Healthcare. Healthier Lives.
- **

Reporting to the Manager, Harm Reduction Services, you will lead the planning and implementation of our kit
making service for vulnerable populations of drug users by:

- Acting as a mentor to peer workers, volunteers, and clients on-site and drop-in programming, including

providing assistance and education around overdose response, housing, income support and asset
- based capacity building.
- Working collaboratively with the team to increase client access to social supports, pathways to care, and

treatment and treatment supports, including overdose prevention.
- Aiding in system navigation.
- Assuming responsibility for supply distribution, including supporting supply management.
- Supporting evaluation and quality assurance, from developing, implementing, maintaining, and

evaluating goals and objectives, to supporting in-house harm reduction programs across sites.

**Qualifications**:

- Substantial knowledge of drug use, specifically injection drug use, acquired through a combination of

work experience, lived experience and/or education or training.
- 2 to 5 years’ relevant experience in a community setting, and experience in and program development,

implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Experience with overdose prevention and response and training in/experience with Naloxone

administration.
- Experience working with marginalized communities such as people experiencing homelessness and
- Experience in peer mentorship and support roles is an asset.
- Strong understanding of and commitment to harm reduction, trauma-informed, and anti-oppression

practices.
- Confident in asserting and maintaining strong boundaries.
- Extensive advocacy, crisis intervention and prevention, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
- Extensive knowledge of community-based resources.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in one or more languages other than English, and personal/lived experience of drug use,

homelessness, and/or street involvement are considered assets.

**Compensation**: $27.78 to $32.71 per hour, plus Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) option.

If you are interested in joining in a creative and dedicated team, we want to hear from you Please send your resume

being accepted.

**as a condition of employment, however strong consideration is made to the type of offense. Employment**

**is conditional upon having had a full series of COVID-19 vaccinations (2 doses, plus booster within 6-12**

**months) 14 days before starting employment.**
- PQWCHC is committed to the principles of access and equity. PQWCHC is committed to reflecting the diversity of the communities it serves _
- and we encourage applicants who reflect Toronto’s Indigenous, LGBTQ2, racial, and cultural diversity. We welcome and encourage _
- CHC is in full compliance of the Ontario Human Rights Code and does not discriminate on the ground of records of offenses. _

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