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**Job Summary**
The Nova Scotia Health Authority is seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Community Outreach Worker to join our team. As a Community Outreach Worker, you will provide a range of clinical services to adults and their families affected by mental illness and/or substance use or gambling disorder.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide clinical services in both clinic and community settings, including screening, assessment, brief intervention, case management/navigation, individual and group treatment.
- Work with individuals who are unhoused, living in encampments, and provide direct support and navigation services.
- Develop and maintain relationships with community organizations and agencies to coordinate resources and services.
- Apply principles of harm reduction, community development, and psychosocial rehabilitation in your practice.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues, clients, and family members to create and enrich linkages within the community.
**Requirements**
- Bachelor of Social Work degree.
- Registration or eligibility for registration with a professional regulatory body.
- One year post-BSW clinical experience in Mental Health and Addictions, with a Master's degree considered an asset.
- Screening and risk assessment skills, including suicide risk assessment.
- Ability to work independently, assess situations, and implement evidence-based plans of care.
- Working knowledge of the DSM.
- Experience in offering brief, supportive intervention strategies focusing on harm reduction and recovery.
- Ability to navigate and de-escalate situations, and offer crisis support.
- Experience and/or demonstrated understanding of the barriers faced by the unhoused community.
- Group facilitation skills.
- Ability to use motivational interviewing skills and engage with clients/families.
- Demonstrated knowledge of community resources, program development methods, and recovery-oriented practice.
- Knowledge of social determinants of health and its importance to decision formulation.
- Knowledge and experience with a trauma-informed care approach.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to build and maintain collaborative working relationships.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to make sound and reliable clinical decisions.
- Competencies in other languages an asset, with French preferred.
- Access to a reliable vehicle for travel.
**What We Offer**
- Casual full-time assignment with 75 hours biweekly.
- Approximately 1-year term.
- 65% of this position requires travel to provide outreach within the community.
**Compensation and Incentives**
$42.01 hourly.
