Community Engagement Worker – Mental Health and Addictions (Contract)

Job title:

Neighborhood Engagement Employee – Psychological Well being and Addictions (Contract)

Firm

YWCA Toronto

Job description

Employment Sort: Full-Time, Contract
Work Hours: 35 hours per week (Night and weekend shifts; shares on-call duties)
Wage: $55,939 yearly (L7), plus complete advantages
Location: 150 Elizabeth Road, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0B1
Contract Interval: April 22, 2024 to February 28, 2025Inside Software Deadline: Friday, April 5, 2024
Exterior Software Deadline: Monday, April 8, 2024
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YWCA Toronto strives to uphold anti-discrimination practices and anti-oppression rules to make sure that the rights of all people are revered and guarded. We work to advertise a local weather that’s welcoming of all ladies and people who establish as Trans, intersex, non-binary, agender, and/or Two-Spirit. We encourage functions from ladies and gender various folks from all races, ethnic origins, religions, talents and sexual orientations.The Neighborhood Engagement Employee – Psychological Well being and Addictions is liable for main the design and implementation of programming that promotes psychological well being and wellness and efficient hurt discount methods to assist safer use or abstinence objectives of tenants. The objectives of the place are to create an inclusive neighborhood, encourage participation within the broader neighborhood, work one-on-one and thru group programming to establish and develop efficient methods that meet the emotional, sensible and social wants of tenants and the neighborhood as a complete. The place will work inside the Neighborhood Engagement Program workforce and alongside the Jean Tweed case administration workforce to make sure that neighborhood engagement actions assist a optimistic and dynamic setting with a deal with well being outcomes.ABOUT YWCA TORONTO – YWCA ELM CENTRE
YWCA Elm Centre consists of 300 items of everlasting housing for 3 completely different resident teams: 165 items of inexpensive rental items for girls and gender various folks, 50 items for girls and gender various folks, women-led households and gender diverse-led households of Indigenous descent (together with 10 women-led and gender diverse-led households fleeing violence) and 85 items for girls and gender various people who find themselves experiencing important psychological well being challenges or concurrent psychological well being/addictions issues. This system will present companies to the complete residential neighborhood, with a twin deal with neighborhood constructing and individualized helps.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Acts as a specialist marketing consultant to YWCA Supervisor, YWCA Elm assist workforce, Jean Tweed Centre case managers and tenants within the space of revolutionary neighborhood engagement and capability constructing with marginalized and blended communities;
• Gives management in creating and delivering companies that promote inclusion, participation, creativity and empowerment to construct a vibrant neighborhood the place security and wellbeing are shared values;
• Develops, implements and evaluates evidence-based workshops, teams and different programming that incorporate well being promotion and hurt discount methods to empower people as they handle points associated to substance use, psychological well being, well being and wellness and housing;
• Works with employees and members to assist tenants construct and increase their strengths, expertise and management by creating and taking part in neighborhood actions and tenant-led initiatives;
• Creates programming particularly designed to construct employees and neighborhood capability via actions that promote consciousness of psychological well being and addictions as a key part of general well being and well-being;
• Communicates and advocates successfully with well being care suppliers and related circles of assist to make sure tenants are receiving applicable care;
• Makes use of trauma-informed follow to establish and assist particular person and neighborhood wants;
• Makes use of hurt discount rules in facilitating and supporting tenant-led and tenant-centered actions, like tenant committees associated to areas of significance for residents;
• Assists the Consumption Coordinator with intakes and move-in orientation course of;
• Helps tenants in addressing and resolving authorized notices associated to lease infractions corresponding to arrears, Lease Geared to Earnings (RGI) documentation and/or habits points;
• Attends and, when needed, acts as a witness on the Landlord Tenant Board hearings as required;
• Participates within the growth of program insurance policies and procedures and ongoing program analysis;
• Compiles program statistics and prepares studies as required and assists within the preparation of the Annual Program Report.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Common information of a tutorial or technical self-discipline usually acquired via the completion of an undergraduate diploma in a social companies or well being subject (examples: BSW/Social Work, Occupational Remedy, and so forth.) (Instances for Equivalency might be thought-about);
• 3 – 5 years of demonstrated expertise working in various, direct and complicated service settings with adults and households who expertise the impacts of poverty, homelessness/under-housing, violence/trauma, psychological well being and or substance use challenges, and different sources of marginalization or oppressions;
• Minimal of three years of demonstrated scientific expertise in consumer engagement, holistic evaluation, supportive counseling and group programming that’s versatile, feminist, trauma-informed, hurt reduction-informed and strengths-based;
• Demonstrated information and use of evidence-based modalities together with bio-psycho-social mannequin, strengths mannequin, hurt discount, motivational interviewing and trans-theoretical levels of change;
• Demonstrated expertise in creating, implementing, facilitating and evaluating group-based programming and psycho-educational workshops which can be proof based mostly and that domesticate peer-led initiatives and individualized capability constructing;
• Demonstrated means to work with various people and teams, delivering culturally competent companies and programming that worth the dynamic range of Elm neighborhood, constructing shared understanding and respect;
• Demonstrated ongoing dedication to vital self-reflection and anti-oppression follow;
• Robust information and understanding of neighborhood sources related to the place;
• Demonstrated means to collaboratively work and construct partnerships with exterior neighborhood companions and stakeholders, together with useful resource brokerage and advocacy for consumer entry to related neighborhood helps, companies and applications as needed;
• Demonstrated battle mediation expertise and disaster intervention expertise, together with creating efficient security plans and thorough follow-up;
• Demonstrated glorious verbal and written communications expertise;
• Present First Assist and CPR certification;
• Working information of the Residential Tenancies Act an asset and arts-based or graphic design expertise an asset.

Please be aware: A susceptible sector police reference examine is required by the profitable candidate previous to hiring. YWCA Toronto is a unionized office. Employees are represented by CUPE Native 2189. This place is inside the Bargaining Unit. Please point out in your cowl letter, in case you are an inside candidate. For inside candidates, this place just isn’t secondable.Posting Date: March 27, 2024YWCA Toronto transforms lives. As the town’s largest multi-service ladies’s group, we assist ladies and gender various folks escape violence, transfer out of poverty and entry protected, inexpensive housing.We work tenaciously to interrupt down limitations that maintain ladies and gender various folks again from attaining equality.Vaccination Coverage: In accordance with YWCA Toronto’s COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage, all YWCA Toronto staff, college students and volunteers are strongly inspired to acquire all COVID-19 vaccinations and booster doses as beneficial by Toronto Public Well beingPlease be aware: A susceptible sector police reference examine is required by the profitable candidate previous to hiring.YWCA Toronto promotes the rules of anti-oppression and adheres to the tenets of the Ontario Human Rights Code. We encourage functions from ladies and gender various folks of all races, ethnic origins, religions, talents and sexual orientations.YWCA Toronto gives lodging throughout all elements of the hiring course of, upon request, to candidates with disabilities. If contacted, please advise us for those who require any lodging. Whereas we thank all candidates for his or her curiosity, solely these chosen for an interview might be contacted.YWCA Toronto is a Scent-Delicate Office.Powered by JazzHR

Anticipated wage

$55939 per 12 months

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:09:47 GMT

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