Care Support Assistant
2 months ago
AIDS Vancouver Island is seeking a Part-Time Care Support Assistant to join our team. As a Care Support Assistant, you will provide direct services to individuals living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C, including advocacy and support with income assistance, healthcare services, employment, housing, and disability status applications.
Key Responsibilities- Provide direct services to individuals living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C, including advocacy and support with income assistance, healthcare services, employment, housing, and disability status applications.
- Use a harm reduction model to provide care to a wide variety of service users at the office and in the community.
- Actively engage with individuals who are living with, or at risk for, HIV/Hepatitis C, using a collaborative, person-centered approach grounded in harm reduction.
- Use brief assessment, crisis response, and counseling skills to help meet immediate, basic needs and make appropriate referrals to other health and support services.
- Advocate on behalf of clients with various Ministries and agencies to ensure clients receive maximum information and support.
- Work with clients on issues such as housing, medical, legal, and other support agencies.
- Bi-monthly group facilitation for identified priority populations.
- Attend appointments with service users in the community.
- Distribute harm reduction supplies and provide education and support regarding safer substance use and safer sex.
- Provide testing information, education, and referrals to clients both onsite and during outreach activities.
- Provide onsite supervision and support to service users.
- Provide support and referral to people who have survived overdose(s), including Opiate Agonist Treatment (OAT) and other resources.
- Participate in the regional STOP HIV Collaborative and other HIV/Hepatitis C community initiatives.
- Diploma in health or social services (Social Work, Psychology, Mental Health & Addictions Support Worker, etc.).
- A minimum of two years' relevant work experience.
- Direct service delivery and advocacy experience with community-based and provincial support services and systems (financial aid, housing, healthcare, justice system, etc.).
- Valid Class 5 BC Driver's License and access to vehicle to drive clients.
- Able to respectfully engage and support Indigenous relationships, with a trauma-informed and decolonial lens.
- Demonstrated ability to establish rapport, provide support, and advocate for a diverse range of clientele, including individuals who are actively using substances and living with significant health challenges.
- Demonstrated empathic observer invested in respectful relationship-building.
- Demonstrated knowledge of social justice, health promotion, and public health approaches and models of social support and healthcare.
- Demonstrated experience planning and developing workshops.
- Demonstrated time management and personal organization skills to effectively support a high volume of client work.
- Part-time position with a competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work with a dedicated and client-centered team.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- A supportive and inclusive work environment.
If you are a motivated and compassionate individual who is passionate about providing care and support to individuals living with HIV and/or Hepatitis C, please submit your application, including your resume and cover letter, to [insert contact information].
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