Community Worker

3 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada Sandy Hill Community Health Centre Full time

**Internal/External Employment Opportunity**

**Position**:Community Worker - Supervised Injection 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: August 9, 2023 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 his/her duties to the CTS Team Leader and through them to the Director of Oasis and to the Executive Director.

**Requirements**:
**Skills, Education and Experience**:
Requirements for this position include:
**Education and Language**
- No educational requirements as this position is designated for people with lived experience
- High School or post-secondary education is an asset
- 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
- Fluency in English, both oral and written
- 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)

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Experience working within a harm reduction approach
- Knowledge of the barriers and stigma experienced by people who use drugs accessing health and social services
- Dependable, respectful, non-judgmental
- Experience as a committee member of volunteer for community events (i.e. Overdose Awareness Day, Drug User memorial, NESI, DUAL, Overdose Prevention Ottawa, P.O.W.E.R, etc.)
- Ability to work within a mainstream health care service
- Work within a multidisciplinary team
- 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. We provide our employees 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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