Harm Reduction Outreach Worker Needle Exchange

2 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada Somerset West Community Health Centre Full time

**JOB POSTING**

**Position Title**: Harm Reduction Outreach Worker Needle Exchange & Safer Inhalation (NESI) Program

**Classification**: Counsellor Level 2

**Department**: Family, Community Health & Harm Reduction

**Reporting to**: Senior Manager, Harm Reduction

**Type**:Full time term: 1 FTE, 35 hrs per week until March 31, 2024

**Salary Band**: $26.20 per hour - $31.56 per hour

**Reviewed**: June 2023

**Reviewed by**: Senior Manager, Harm Reduction

**Circulation: INTERNAL only**

**Deadline: Tuesday July 4, 2023, 5PM**

**About Us**

We are the Somerset West Community Health Centre (SWCHC), a non-profit, community-governed organization that serves over 16K clients annually. We provide a wide range of health care services such as primary health care, health promotion, community development, mental health and harm reduction. We are deeply connected to the communities we serve. We make our work meaningful for our community by striving to ensure that our team reflects the community we serve. We work within an anti-racism, anti-oppression framework that acknowledges systemic racism exists and seeks to ensure that systems are fair and equitable for everyone

**Role**:
**Requirements**:

- Degree in Social Work (BSW); Social Service Work; or related health discipline OR Equivalent combination of education and relevant professional or lived/ living experience
- Three years’ experience and passion for working with high risk populations and people who use drugs
- Commitment to working from a health equity and anti-oppressive lens
- Lived experience of drug use and/or experience in advocacy for persons who use drugs considered assets
- Excellent knowledge and experience regarding harm reduction approaches and service delivery
- Excellent understanding of health promotion, HIV and HCV transmission, Hepatitis A,B and C, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Experience in a drop-in, outreach or shelter setting is an asset
- Experience supporting people living with homelessness, mental health and addictions challenges
- Experience in overdose response is an asset

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- Knowledge of best practice guidelines for individuals with substance use, notably harm reduction, outreach, case management, trauma informed care and treatment for substance use and concurrent mental health
- Knowledge of relevant mental health and privacy legislation and related practices
- Sound judgment and strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently, set priorities and manage time effectively
- Knowledge of health promotion, disease prevention, behaviour change and health teaching
- Strong clinical assessment and documentation skills
- Demonstrated ability and clinical expertise working with clients in crisis
- Expertise in non-violent crisis intervention and de-escalation
- Knowledge of concurrent mental health distress presentations including psychosis, trauma and emotional dysregulation
- Extensive knowledge of community resources available and service navigation
- Experience with supervised injection services an asset
- Effective organizational, critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to delegate
- Ability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team
- Ability and comfort with computers, online reporting templates and ensuring timely completion of reporting obligations
- Ability to work with people with concurrent disorders
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment managing multiple competing demands
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills

**Other Job Requirements**:

- Valid G class Driver’s license, personal vehicle insurance and clean drivers abstract a strong asset
- Successful completion of criminal reference check for vulnerable sector
- Data collection/tracking
- CPR certification
- First Aid
- ASIST and Non Violent Crisis Intervention
- Needle exchange and safe inhalation training

**Language Capability**:

- Fluency in English required. Working knowledge of French or other priority languages in our service community (Somali, Vietnamese, Inuktitut) an asset.

***_It is the policy of SWCHC to require COVID-19 immunization for all employees, volunteers, students, and contractors, including those who work offsite with the following exceptions: Persons with a medical reason that prevents them from being vaccinated against COVID-19; Persons with other reasonable considerations pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code that restrict them from being vaccinated against Covid 19 vaccination.**_**
- Somerset West Community Health Centre is an equal opportunity employer who values the diversity of individuals in our programs and services._

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