Harm Reduction Specialist
2 months ago
AVI Health and Community Services is seeking a RAD Support Worker to join our team on a casual basis. As a RAD Support Worker, you will play a critical role in supporting the delivery of our harm reduction programs and services.
Key Responsibilities- Work collaboratively with the RAD team to identify potential program participants and provide information regarding access to pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs.
- Connect regularly with program participants to offer peer support through active listening skills and a non-judgmental attitude, as well as referrals to other health and social services.
- Assist with post-dose monitoring for RAD program participants, assess for overdose symptoms, and respond with rescue breathing and naloxone when necessary.
- Liaise between participants, systems navigators, nurses, and physicians to support participants to be heard and assist with keeping communication open and accessible.
- Distribute safer drug use supplies, safer sex supplies, and naloxone kits, and provide information on harm reduction practices, overdose prevention, and overdose response.
- Work with participants and the RAD team to navigate administrative and financial requirements for access to pharmaceuticals according to care plan.
- Identify and develop safety plans with people who are using substances who are at increased risk of overdose.
- Maintain the safety of all program spaces by following protocols related to violence prevention and critical incidents.
- Contribute to a positive, respectful environment at the program space and act as an AVI ambassador in the community.
- Maintain confidential records in accordance with privacy requirements and participate in team charting to assure comprehensive documentation.
- Engage in planning, evaluation, reporting, and program development as directed.
- Attend regularly scheduled team meetings and individual supervision meetings.
- Minimum two years' experience working within harm reduction settings. Experience working with safer supply programs preferred.
- Have lived/living experience with drug use and related health and social barriers. Have personal experience accessing harm reduction services for safer drug use support and/or accessed other services designed to meet the needs of people who use substances.
- First Aid training and experience responding to critical incidents and overdose, including administration of naloxone.
- Have a current knowledge of the local drug trends and can relate as a peer with program participants.
- Direct service delivery experience in the community social services sector with a demonstrated working knowledge of community-based programs and related provincial and community support services systems.
- Interest in learning and eager to share information with peers with a non-judgmental attitude.
- Demonstrated understanding of the importance and role of people who use drugs in the development, delivery, and evaluation of services intended to benefit them.
- Working understanding of the importance of confidentiality and boundaries.
- Working knowledge in the areas of harm reduction, safer drug use, OAT, safer sex, sex work, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, mental health, etc.
- Commitment to honor Indigenous communities and ways of knowing, and approach learning about the ongoing impacts of colonial violence with humility.
- Demonstrated understanding and commitment to harm reduction principles and practices.
- Competitive hourly rate of $31.56/hour to start with stepped increases based on your seniority with AVI.
- Casual positions available with hours of work between 9:00am - 5:00pm Monday to Sunday.
- Location: Casual shifts available in both the Campbell River and Comox Valley AVI locations.
- Union: AVI is a union environment under the Collective Agreement: HEABC & Health Services & Support Community Subsector Association and this role is a BCGEU union position.
- Pension: If you are already a member of the Municipal Pension Plan (MPP), you can continue with them at AVI immediately. At this time, AVI contributes an additional 9.31% towards your pension account.
- Other Perks: This position gets paid an extra 5% in lieu of vacation 5% in lieu of stats, meaning your hourly rate is actually 10% higher than listed.
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