Component/Team: Oasis
Status: Permanent, 1.0 FTE Full-Time (35 hours per week)
Salary Scale: $46,283 – $55,747 annualized salary plus benefits + 10% Premium to the hourly rate for hours worked on Saturday and Sunday
Start Date: Immediately
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 29, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
Position Description:
The role of the Harm Reduction Worker is to ensure that participants, clients and guests of the Centre have access to services and support to minimize harms associated with substance use and to restore their agency and to achieve their self-defined recovery goals.
The Harm Reduction Worker is a resource for participants, clients, and guests providing general information about resources available at the Centre to facilitate access to services. The Harm Reduction Worker plays a vital role in establishing positive relationships and will monitor client behaviour to detect situations that if not addressed, may become problematic.
As part of a team of Harm Reduction Workers the Harm Reduction Worker plays key roles in the Consumption and Treatment Service: Safer injection and smoking supply distribution, Injection Room support and post injection Drop in Support.
Reporting Relationship:
The Harm Reduction Worker is directly accountable to the CTS Team Leader and through them to the Oasis Program Manager and to the Director of Oasis and Executive Director.
Requirements
Skills, Education and Experience:
Requirements for this position include:
Education and Language
Professional Experience
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Hours of Work
Benefits
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre offers employees an excellent benefits package which includes 4 weeks holidays (pro-rated to status) in addition to a Pension Plan (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan – HOOPP) and excellent Group Insurance Plan.
Conditions of Employment:
Hours of work will be developed in collaboration with the successful candidate to ensure a healthy work-life balance. A schedule of work will be based on the Centre’s hours of operation and program requirements and may include some evenings.
An offer of employment will be conditional upon the candidate completing a criminal reference check, verification of educational requirements for this position, and linguistic profile to the satisfaction of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre.
Accommodation:
SHCHC will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment process.
If at any stage in the selection process, you require accommodation due to disability, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.
Clients of the Centre are welcome to apply. Should a client become a successful candidate, they will no longer be able to continue receiving services at Sandy Hill Community Health Centre. Assistance will be made available to find an alternative provider.
Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.
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