Position

Case Manager HART of Simcoe County

Program or

Team

Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Community Addictions Supports Team (CAST)

Location

Base Location: Barrie; Regional and In-Community Work Required

Supervisor

Director of Health Services

Supported by Team Lead CAST

Term

1.00 FTE Term March 31, 2027

Salary

$60,000 65,000 plus applicable benefits

The position is open to all qualified applicants, although preference will be given to candidates of Indigenous ancestry (please self-identify in your application).

About the Organization:

The Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle is a regional social planning and development organization. The BANAC service region now covers Simcoe County, Muskoka, and the northern York Region. BANAC works in cooperation with Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous organizations to address community-identified priorities through coordinated planning, implementation, and evaluation efforts. As an Indigenous-led and Indigenous-governed organization, BANAC has a mandate to support the continued promotion of Indigenous lifelong-learning, self-determination, and community participation.

BANAC offers many innovative programs and services including the Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team. Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin offers Traditional Healing and coordination, land-based programming, primary care, community addictions supports and treatment, counselling and wellness services, and community health promotion.

About the Role:

The Case Manager plays a key role in supporting Indigenous community members who are experiencing homelessness, housing precarity, or complex health and social challenges. Working in collaboration with Mental Health and Addictions Outreach Counsellors and a broader interdisciplinary team, the Case Manager provides culturally grounded, client-centred, and trauma-informed case management services. This includes comprehensive assessment, care planning, advocacy, service navigation, and coordination of supports to assist clients in achieving wellness, safety, and stability. This regional role involves outreach-based service delivery, including in shelters, community locations, transitional housing, and other non-traditional settings.

The Case Manager will also support system-level efforts to improve access to mental health and addiction services for Indigenous people by fostering strong partnerships with community organizations, healthcare providers, and housing systems. Rooted in Indigenous knowledge and values, the Case Manager helps bridge clinical, cultural, and community supports to uphold the wholistic wellbeing of clients.

What You Bring:

• Relevant post-secondary education to mental health, or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or lived experience with mental health and addictions
• Demonstrated experience working with Indigenous communities and clients to provide wholistic culturally safe and trauma informed care
• Knowledge of community resources and experience navigating and connecting with mental health and/or addictions (community-based setting preferred).
• Must have access to a vehicle, a valid Ontario drivers license, and adequate automobile insurance as well as a driving record that permits insurance through BANAC.
• Ensure activities meet with (and integrate with) organizational requirements for quality management, health and safety, values, and mission, together with embracing our harm reduction philosophy.
• Utilize a client-centered approach as to develop trusting relationships with clients.
• Understand provincial/local legislation as well as government policies, procedures, and practices pertaining to services provided by the agency
• Knowledge and practice of harm reduction, client-centered recovery philosophy, and community service delivery.
• Knowledge of community resources connected to the provision of mental health and addiction services.

What We Offer:

We provide a generous benefits package, including HOOPP, paid vacation, cultural leave, extended holidays, on-going training opportunities and the opportunity to work in a dynamic community-based environment.

Information About Working at BANAC Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin:

Work is typically performed in clinic, office and community settings.

Regular travel will be required vehicle an asset

Regular overtime work may be required from time to time, BANAC team members enjoy a flex schedule agreement

Periodic exposure to smoke may occur from the burning of sacred medicines: Tobacco, sweet grass, sage or cedar.

Specific employment conditions are specified in an employment contract with BANAC and include the following:

Worksite location

Valid C.P.R. and A.E.D. Certificates required

Valid Class G Ontario Drivers License is required with clear check for vulnerable sector

Applications are encouraged from qualified applicants of First Nations, Mtis, Inuit ancestry (in accordance with section 24.1a of the Ontario Human Rights Act, United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), UNDRIP Action Plan, Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action).

Applying to this Job:

Please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected] with a subject line of: Attention Case Manager Hiring Committee

DISCLAIMER: This job posting indicates the general nature and level of work expected. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required by the incumbent. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required