Care Facilitator/social Worker

4 weeks ago

KitchenerWaterloo, Canada Sanguen Health Centre Full time

Care Facilitator (Social Worker)

Sanguen Health Centre - Safer Supply Program

**Job Type**: Full-time, contract position until March 31, 2024

**Reports to**:Director of Peer & Community Development

**Deadline to Express Interest**:This posting will remain active until the position is filled

**About Sanguen Health Centre**

Sanguen Health Centre exists to improve individual and community well-being by providing health and social care for people who face barriers to accessing traditional supports. This includes people living with HCV, people who use drugs, those experiencing homelessness and equity deserving communities.

Our mission is to meet the needs of those in Waterloo Region and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph living with or at risk of Hepatitis C through the provision of education, outreach, support, and comprehensive, expert medical care.

Our vision is to create a future where everyone in our community is empowered, accepted, and cared for in the way they need to thrive.

**About the Safer Supply Program**

The primary focus of the Safer Supply program is flexible, low-barrier access to pharmaceutical opioids through a health equity and harm reduction lens for 200 people. Sanguen Health Centre’s Safer Supply program is embedded within the village of the Inner City Health Alliance (ICHA). This alliance, as a collective, provides intensive place-based and mobile primary health care, housing, shelter, and social connections to people experiencing precarious housing, poverty and complex health and mental health. Sanguen Health Centre, and the ICHA, work from a trauma-informed, person-centred and harm reduction approach. The Safer Supply program aims to provide essential services to people who use substances by providing prescribed alternatives to street level drugs, managing other health care needs with a goal to reduce overdose-related harms and overdose deaths.

**Summary of the Role**

As a member of the interdisciplinary team, the Care Facilitator in the Safer Supply Program works with a team of practitioners to support social and health care needs from a harm reduction model approach to care for people who experience complications related to substance use and complex health/mental health needs. The Care Facilitator assists in the provision of direct patient care and community services in order to improve the well-being and support the stability of individuals in the Safer Supply Program. The Care Facilitator in the Safer Supply Program must be able utilize a variety of skills and methods including direct client care, community outreach, health promotion and harm reduction education, counseling, mental health skills, as well as, system navigation and advocacy. The main area of focus for this role is to support the prevention of opioid overdoses and other harms associated with the toxic illicit drug supply in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

**Accountabilities**

Accountabilities of the Care Facilitator include, but are not limited to:

- Assisting in the provision of care and community services in order to improve the health and social outcomes of individuals in the Safer Supply Program.
- Providing harm reduction education and therapeutic counseling within a harm reduction framework to clients regarding their substance use in both an individual and group setting.
- Providing direct case management in order to optimize all determinants of health, including but not limited to substance use disorder, mental health, housing, employment, legal, income, and issues related to poverty
- Assisting with developing care plans, care coordination across an interdisciplinary team and external referrals for clients.
- Maintaining accurate and timely electronic health records.
- Developing and maintaining positive relationships with service providers, community groups and other agency representatives and individuals working in overdose prevention.

**Qualifications**
- Current certification as a Registered Social Worker in the Province of Ontario is strongly preferred or other relevant experience and training.
- 2-5 years of experience providing community-based case management from an anti-oppression, trauma-informed framework.
- Must have access to reliable vehicle and car insurance that provides coverage for transporting individuals at work/using your vehicle at work.
- Demonstrated competence in clinical skills, including psychosocial assessments, counseling intervention, and ability to work within a multidisciplinary team approach.
- Demonstrated experience working with people with complex substance use and mental health needs, people who are unhoused/precariously housed and with other complex health needs.
- Demonstrated knowledge of mental health issues and treatment modalities, as well as an understanding of substance use disorder and various treatment and harm reduction modalities.
- Experience working with people who use drugs, as service users and as colleagues.

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