Internal/External Employment Opportunity

Position: Outreach Worker

Component/Team: CTS

Status: Contract until March 31, 2026, 1.0 FTE Full-Time (35 hours per week)

Salary Scale: $26.26 - $31.63 hourly

# of Positions: 3 positions

Start Date: Immediately

APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 7, 2025 at 4:00 p.m.

Position Description:

The role of the Outreach Worker is to provide direct engagement and practical support to individuals who are street-involved, use substances, or face systemic barriers. Working within a harm reduction framework, the Outreach Worker helps minimize risks, promotes well-being, and facilitates access to health, housing, and social services. The Outreach Worker plays an integral role in building trust, offering basic needs supports, and contributing to improved health and social outcomes for participants in the Sandy Hill community.

Reporting Relationship:

The Outreach Worker is directly accountable to the Director of CTS Services, and receives guidance and coordination support from the Shift Lead – Outreach Worker. The Outreach Worker is accountable through the Director of CTS to the Executive Director.

Requirements

Skills, Education and Experience:

Requirements for this position include:

Education and Language

• College diploma in social services, addictions, mental health, or a related field.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience, including lived experience may be considered
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention training is considered an asset
• Under the Centre's designation to provide French Language Services:
• French (oral expression): Advanced
• French (oral comprehension): Advanced
• French (reading comprehension): Advanced
• Fluency in English, both oral and written

Professional Experience

• Two years of experience in community outreach or a front-line harm reduction role
• Experience supporting individuals facing homelessness, substance use, or mental health challenges

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• A patient, non-judgmental compassionate, client-centered approach to working with street-involved people, people who are HIV+ or who are at risk of becoming HIV+ and individuals facing homelessness, substance use, or mental health challenges
• Excellent active listening skills
• Knowledge of community resources in Ottawa
• Ability to work within a harm reduction framework
• Capacity to assess risk and respond to crises and in a therapeutic manner
• Ability to work under stress with multiple demands
• Ability to identify client service needs
• Commitment to equity, trauma-informed care, and culturally informed practice and cultural humility
• Ability to exercise sound judgement, and problem-solving skills
• Tact and diplomacy
• Ability to maintain relationships and act as an ambassador with a wide variety of stakeholders with divergent perspectives, including service participants, neighbours and emergency services including police

• Consumption and Treatment Services will operate from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 7 days a week.
• Must be available for shift work including weekends.

Benefits

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 requirement 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 the 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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