Community Worker

3 days ago

Ottawa, Canada Sandy Hill Community Health Centre Full time

**Internal/External Employment Opportunity**

**Position**:Community Worker - Consumption and Treatment Services

**Component/Team**:Oasis

**Status**:Casual (No guaranteed hours)

**Salary Scale**:$18.26 - $21.99 hourly plus 4% vacation pay in lieu of benefits

**Start Date**:Immediately

**APPLICATION DEADLINE: June 12, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.**

**Position Description**:
The Community Worker is a member of the Oasis team and works closely with team members to provide the highest possible quality of health care services to clients. The Community Worker provides support to the Oasis Drop-In, the Junction and the waiting areas / lobbies / front door area. The role of the Community Worker (Oasis) is to encourage clients to use agency and community services and to provide harm reduction strategies, information and referral. In addition, the Community Worker provides the insight from the perspective of lived experience that is central to planning and delivering services.

**Reporting Relationship**:
The Community Worker is directly accountable for the carrying out of their duties to the CTS Team Leader and through them to the Oasis Program Manager, Director of Oasis, and to the Executive Director.

**Requirements**:
**Skills, Education and Experience**:
Requirements for this position include:
**Education and Language**
- No education required
- High school, training, certification or experience in a peer support role an asset
- First Aid and CPR (level C) Certification In-House
- Overdose Intervention In-House Training
- Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services this position is not designated.
- French (oral expression): Advanced (preferred)
- French (oral comprehension): Advanced (preferred)
- French (reading comprehension): Intermediate (preferred)
- Fluency in English, both oral and written

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Experience working within a harm reduction approach and knowledge about stigma towards people who use drugs
- Dependable, respectful, non-judgmental
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to work within the mandate and policies and procedures of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre and the Oasis Program
- Ability to work under stress with multiple demands
- Ability to come to work on time
- Respects and values the diversity of communities and individuals
- Sensitivity and alertness to signs of a client in crisis
- Ability to recognize signs of distress (overdose, mental health crisis, etc.)
- Ability to work for a minimum of 3 continuous hours in a fast-paced environment

**Benefits**

In lieu of benefits, 4% vacation pay is added to the hourly rate. Sandy Hill CHC provides staff the opportunity to enroll in our pension plan (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan - HOOPP).

**Conditions of Employment**:
**Accommodation**:
SHCHC will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment process.

If at any stage in the selection process, you require accommodation due to disability, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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