Mobile Drug Checking Outreach Worker

2 days ago

New Westminster, Canada Purpose Society Full time

Position: Mobile Drug Checking Outreach Worker Location: Based out of

**Position: Mobile Drug Checking Outreach Worker**
- **Location**: Based out of the Main Office at 40 Begbie Street, New Westminster.
- **Requires **drug-checking**/**outreach in New Westminster, Burnaby, Tri-Cities, Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows.
- **Hours**: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 5pm-midnight
- **Job Type**: Driving position,
- **Wage**: $27.00 / Hour.

**Start Date: December 2024**

Mobile drug-checking, harm reduction and supportive social services to the New Westminster, Burnaby, Tri-Cities and Maple Ridge areas. Services focus on supporting people who use substances and who are at risk of overdose.

**Duties**:

- Work closely with the Program Coordinator to implement opioid overdose prevention and response strategies, especially involving mobile outreach services
- Provide education and facilitate trainings on safer substance use and other harm reduction practices
- Keeping the Drug Checking Van tidy and stocked with supplies
- Safely recover used syringes from the various communities
- Build and maintain trusting relationships with clients who access services
- Collect and check drug samples using BTNX test strips and a drug-checking machine
- Maintain necessary statistics, and ensure that all required documentation is accurate
- Provide resources and referral information to services such as violence prevention organizations, shelter and housing, substance use services and health care
- Overdose response

**Qualifications**:

- Valid BC Class 5 driver’s license, the skill required to drive a utility van
- The capability to collect and maintain accurate data
- Clean driver’s abstract and a criminal records check
- Two-year diploma in a relevant field, such as social work, community health, mental health and addictions studies or equivalent. **Extensive experience may be considered in lieu of formal training**:

- The ability to maintain a non-judgmental and non-stigmatizing approach is required
- The ability to function effectively in difficult and/or crisis situations is required
- Strong communication skills are required
- Strong understanding of harm reduction principles, STIs, substance misuse, mental health and social determinants of health
- Must be able to work independently and as part of a team
- Established ability to maintain healthy boundaries is necessary
- Knowledge of local resources is an asset
- Capacity to lift up to 15 pounds and carry boxes/equipment up and down stairs
- Readiness to respond to an overdose

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