Union: Non-Union
Site: All sites & community
Department: Social Medicine & Population Health
Reports to: Hiring Manager
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: $62,134.80 – $77,668.50 annually. To commensurate with experience and consistent with UHN compensation policy
Status: Permanent Full-Time
Posted Date: February 23, 2024
Closing Date: Until Filled
The University Health Network, where “above all else the needs of patients come first”, encompasses Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the Michener Institute of Education. The breadth of research, the complexity of the cases treated, and the magnitude of its educational enterprise has made UHN a national and international resource for patient care, research and education. With a long tradition of ground breaking firsts and a purpose of “Transforming lives and communities through excellence in care, discovery and learning”, the University Health Network (UHN), Canada’s largest research teaching hospital, brings together over 16,000 employees, more than 1,200 physicians, 8,000+ students, and many volunteers. UHN is a caring, creative place where amazing people are amazing the world.
Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine
The Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine seeks to address health inequities, working alongside community organizations, UHN clinicians, marginalized populations, persons with lived experience, patients, and all levels of policymaking to co-design, evaluate, and scale innovative data-driven programs that lead to better health. Applying a social determinants of health approach, the Social Medicine and Population Health Program aims to bridge health services and the broader social environment of UHN’s most medically and socially complex patients with the highest needs through the design, implementation, research and evaluation of new care models and initiatives to address the health implications of inequity.
Position Summary
The Community Health Worker will collaborate with clinicians, Peer Workers, and community-led organizations on the development of a comprehensive plan to help address individual client’s social and other needs.
The Community Health Worker will work at UHN and in community settings to provide direct 1:1 support to marginalized clients through the collaborative coordination of health and social services. The Community Health Worker will support the provision of information, resources, and advocacy, and will participate in case discussions and debriefs. The Community Health Worker will provide support to the UHN Social Medicine and other areas of UHN to build, grow, strengthen, and sustain relationships with community partners; and provide supports to staff around the needs of marginalized clients.
This position recognizes UHN’s commitment to health equity, to create a culturally safe institution for structurally marginalized people, and to educating future health care providers about health equity.
Duties
Qualifications
We encourage anyone who has lived experience of structural marginalization including homelessness or substance use to apply.
Why join UHN?
In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world, UHN offers a wide range of benefits, programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor, allowing you to find value where it matters most to you, now and throughout your career at UHN.
Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period, have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHN’s attendance management program, to be eligible for consideration.
Vaccines (COVID and others) are a requirement of the job unless you have an exemption on a medical ground pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code.
UHN is a respectful, caring, and inclusive workplace. We are committed to championing accessibility, diversity and equal opportunity. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known in advance. Any information received related to an accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
University Health Network thanks all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
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