cohealth Looking for Harm Reduction Worker at Collingwood, Ontario, Canada Full Time

Reference: 6510569

• Casual position
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Based in Collingwood

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier’s Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth’s 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About The Role

The Harm Reduction worker provides onsite and outreach harm reduction services to individuals and groups. Improving health, wellbeing, and inclusion amongst People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) is the key purpose of this position. The program engages community provides support and advocacy, education, brief intervention, linkages to treatment and referral services. Within an interdisciplinary team, care is provided in a safe, person centred, confidential and non-judgmental manner.

Please refer to the Position Description for more information.

Your Duties Include

• Devising and delivering education activities both onsite and on an outreach basis according to need
• Establish and maintain active network links to connect people who use drugs with welfare, support, and other community services
• Development and ongoing maintenance of effective networks and consultative processes
• Providing needles/syringes and other injecting equipment to clients

What Cohealth Offers

• Generous salary packaging options to suit you – tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation). Salary packaging reduces your cohealth taxable income, meaning you pay less tax on your cohealth income
• A generous rewards program from our salary packaging provider
• Exciting Parental leave benefits
• cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
• Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline (e.g. alcohol and other drugs, community development, social work), Certificate IV or higher, with minimum two years relevant work experience
• Sound knowledge of the health and social issues for people who use drugs such as blood borne virus prevention, pharmacotherapy treatment, stigma, discrimination, and the service system
• Demonstrated understanding of harm reduction as it applies to people who use drugs (PWUD), including the transmission and prevention of blood borne viruses (Hepatitis B and C, HIV and STIs)
• Demonstrated commitment to the principles of harm reduction and the ability to translate them into practical strategies

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Police Check, a Working With Children Check (WWCC), complete a Statutory Declaration, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses). Additionally, some roles will also require current AHPRA registration and/or NDIS Worker Screening Clearance.

Roles that are determined to be Risk Category A or B [staff that have direct and/or indirect contact with body substances and are at higher risk of occupational exposure to infections] will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza prior to commencement [A] or within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19 and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

Click on apply now to be directed to our careers page. You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and answer the Key Selection Criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Dean Rogut [email protected]

Applications Close: 30 Dec 2023