Position Title: Van Community Worker- Needle Exchange &Safer Inhalation (NESI) Van Service
Department: Family and Community Services
Reporting to: Manager, Community Engagement
Type: Casual
Pay Band: $21.73 - $26.15 per hour
Schedule: Shifts hours 4:45pm - 11:45pm: includes weekend hours
Application Deadline: Friday November 15, 2024, at 5:00pm EST
About SWCHC and ONHC
We are Somerset West Community Health Centre (SWCHC), a non-profit, community-governed organization that serves over 18,000 clients annually. Established in 1978, SWCHC provides a wide range of health care services such as primary health care, health promotion, community development, mental health, and harm reduction. We are deeply connected to the communities we serve and committed to removing barriers to accessing services for people who are vulnerable because of their age, income, ability, sexual orientation or gender identity, and language or culture.
SWCHC strives to ensure that our team reflects the communities we serve. We work within an anti-racist, anti-oppressive framework that acknowledges the existence and impacts of systemic racism and seeks to ensure that systems are fair and equitable for everyone.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Manager of Community Engagement and in collaboration with the NESI Team Lead, the NESI Van Community Worker (NVCW) will work closely with the NESI Van Harm Reduction Worker to support the delivery of harm reduction services to people who use drugs in the City of Ottawa. The NVCW provides peer support, harm reduction information and education, and needle/inhalation safer substance use supplies to drug users and their allies across the city, in order to reduce and avoid the risk of transmission of HIV and Hepatitis B & C. The NVCW may engage in other duties as assigned in support of the NESI service, Harm Reduction Department and Community Health Centre.
Community Workers collaborate as a part of the whole Harm Reduction Department (HRD). They work with other Community Workers, NESI Van Relief Staff, Harm Reduction Workers, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Team Leads, the Manager, and other members of the department and Health Centre. The NVCWs also collaborate with the other services of the HRD to ensure collaborative, coordinated and integrated services for all clients of the HRD, as well as collaborate with and contribute to the overall services, programs and functioning of the Centre. Community Workers are persons with lived experience of drug use, well regarded and trusted by the drug using community, able to self-identify as a peer and to use their acquired skills and knowledge for the benefit of community well-being. We are so glad you're interested in working with us.
We work within an anti-racism, anti-oppression framework that acknowledges systemic racism exists and seeks to ensure that systems are fair and equitable for everyone.
Applicant Requirements:
Your contribution:
Perform other related duties as assigned
Preferred Attributes:
Your strengths
In keeping with the Harm-Reduction Department Philosophy of Service, we seek candidates who are:
Working Conditions:
Preferential trainings:
Personal Suitability
Commitment to the principles of health equity, inclusion and anti-racism/anti-oppression
ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Please submit your resume and cover letter as one document by Friday November 15th, 2024, 5:00 PM EST
**It is the policy of SWCHC to require COVID-19 immunization for all employees, volunteers, and students, including those who work off-site with the following exceptions: Persons with a medical reason that prevents them from being vaccinated against COVID-19; Persons with other reasonable considerations pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code that restrict them from being vaccinated against Covid 19 vaccination. **
Somerset West Community Health Centre is an equal opportunity employer who values the diversity of individuals in our programs and services.
We welcome and encourage applications from members of Indigenous, Black and racialized communities, Two-Spirit, nonbinary, LGBTQ+ people; people with disabilities; and members of other equity deserving communities. Applicants are encouraged to share accessibility needs in the application process, and every attempt will be made to accommodate them.
Due to the high volume of applicants, we can neither confirm receipt of nor respond to inquiries regarding your application. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.