Withdrawal Management Worker, Nights

**THE POSITION**

Withdrawal Management Workers provide compassionate care to individuals withdrawing from alcohol and/or drugs. You are part of a collaborative team that ensures client safety and comfort at this early stage of their recovery. You monitor client withdrawal symptoms, administer medication as prescribed, support brief service plans and discharge plans, facilitate psychoeducational groups, and assist with ongoing service and supports. You make a difference

Key responsibilities of a Withdrawal Management Worker include:

- Conduct telephone screening of clients to determine program eligibility
- Support client intake into the program
- Monitor withdrawal symptoms, administer and document client medications, and alert medical professionals to any issues which impact client’s safe withdrawal
- Support implementation of client safety, support and/or transition plans
- Deliver brief, solution-focused interventions
- Provide individual or group psychoeducation to enhance client motivation to change and support recovery
- Confidently redirect client behaviour when required, to ensure a physically and emotionally safe space for all
- Be responsive and compassionate to clients within the program
- Support safe and effective facility functioning through light cleaning and meal preparation

**Hours of work**: Monday -Thursday Midnight to 7:00 a.m., Fridays Midnight to 8:00 a.m.

**Compensation and Benefits**

Hourly wage: Starting at $24.74 to $27.13 plus benefits and a $1 per hour shift premium for weekend work

**The Perks**
- Employee Assistance Plan for all staff and their families
- Full Time staff start at 3 weeks’ vacation (pro-rated)
- 60 Hours of Personal Leave Time for Full Time staff (pro-rated)
- 15 Hours of Wellness Time for Full Time Staff (pro-rated the first year)
- Staff Wellness Activities
- Participation in RSP/TFSA plans for all staff, with Agency pension match for Full Time and eligible Part Time staff
- Group health, vision, dental and travel insurance plans with options of premiums being 100% paid by the Agency for Full Time staff
- Agency committed to ensuring your physical and mental health/safety is paramount

**REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS**
- College diploma or certificate in the Human/Social Services field (i.e., Personal Support Worker, Social Service Worker, Human Services Worker, Addiction Worker)
- Minimum of 2-years combined education/experience in substance use, concurrent disorders and/or mental health settings, with residential withdrawal management experience preferred
- Proficient in MS Office and be familiar with databases
- Access to reliable transportation
- Able to manage frequent exposure to vicarious traumatic stress

**To Apply**:
Reference: FT WM Worker Nights

SOAR Community Services is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wyandot, the Haudenosaunee, and some of the Ojibwa Nation. The territory is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this community, on this territory. We also acknowledge that the settler population has been able to benefit from this beautiful land. We are all treaty members and will strive to act in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and center their voices.

Personal information submitted will only be used for the purposes of the competition in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Pay: From $24.74 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Wellness program

**Education**:

- DCS / DEC (required)

**Experience**:

- combined education and/or residential: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person