Harm Reduction Worker

4 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada Sandy Hill Community Health Centre Full time

**Internal/External Employment Opportunity**

**Position Title**:Harm Reduction Worker

**Component/Team**:Oasis

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

**Salary Scale**:$25.43 - $30.63 hourly plus 4% vacation pay in lieu of benefits + 10% Premium to the hourly rate for hours worked on Saturday and Sunday

**Start Date**:Immediately

**APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 24, 2024**

**Position Description**:
The role of the Harm Reduction Worker is to ensure that participants, clients and guests of the Centre have access to services and support to minimize harms associated with substance use and to restore their agency and to achieve their self-defined recovery goals.

The Harm Reduction Worker is a resource for participants, clients, and guests providing general information about resources available at the Centre to facilitate access to services. The Harm Reduction Worker plays a vital role in establishing positive relationships and will monitor client behaviour to detect situations that if not addressed, may become problematic.

As part of a team of Harm Reduction Workers the Harm Reduction Worker plays key roles in the Consumption and Treatment Service: Safer injection and smoking supply distribution, Injection Room support and post injection Drop in Support.

**Reporting Relationship**:
The Harm Reduction Worker is directly accountable to the CTS Team Leader and through them to the Oasis Program Manager and to the Director of Oasis and Executive Director.

**Requirements**:
**Skills, Education and Experience**:
Requirements for this position include:
**Education and Language**
- College diploma in related field
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
- Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services, this position is designated bilingual preferred:

- French (oral expression): Advanced
- French (oral comprehension): Advanced
- French (reading comprehension): Advanced
- Fluency in English, both oral and written

**Professional Experience**
- One year experience working in a role that places an emphasis on harm reduction, engaging clients and de-escalating problematic behaviour in a therapeutic manner
- Experience working with a broad range of populations, including: youth, street involved, people living with mental health issues, people living with substance use disorder, multi-cultural communities and disenfranchised groups

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- A non-judgmental and positive attitude towards street-involved people, people who are HIV+ or who are at risk of becoming HIV+ and people with substance use disorder, mental illness and concurrent disorders
- Excellent active listening skills
- Knowledge of community resources in Ottawa
- Ability to work within a harm reduction framework
- Ability to de-escalate an acting out client in a therapeutic manner
- Ability to work under stress with multiple demands
- Ability to identify client service needs

**Hours of Work**
- Must be available for shift work, including evenings and some weekends. Shifts will be based on a rotating six week schedule and will be 11.67 hours in length (excluding breaks)

**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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