PROGRAM AREA: Integrated Programs (ETF)
HOURS/WEEK: 35 hours per week, 5 month contract ending March 31, 2026
What We Live By:
Our Vision: A community without barriers to health and wellbeing.
Our Mission: We work with our community to promote and sustain health and wellbeing for all.
Our Values: Compassion, Social Justice, Courage, Integrity, Adaptability.
Guelph Community Health Centre prioritizes people who face barriers to health and accessing services, and people who identify as:
Homeless or at risk of homelessness
Living on low income
Newcomers to Canada with language barriers
Having moderate to severe mental health and/or addiction issues
Having moderate to severe disabilities
Indigenous First Nations, Inuit and Métis
Black, mixed race and racialized populations
Experiencing intersectional oppression
2SLGBTQIA+
Vulnerable children and their families experiencing conflict, isolation or attachment struggles
Program Description:
The Emergency Treatment Fund (ETF) is a funding initiative offered by Health Canada to municipalities and Indigenous communities to address urgent substance use needs.
The HOME Team is a joint initiative between the Guelph Community Health Centre, the Sanguen Health Centre, and the Mount Forest Family Health Team, which will provide mobile wrap-around support services to individuals struggling with substance use who face barriers to accessing traditional services. The HOME team will expand on existing programs to operate two mobile outreach vehicles – one in the City of Guelph, and one in Wellington County, and offer additional place-based supports.
Reporting to the Allied Health Supervisor, the HOME Peer, working with the HOME Outreach Worker, will
provide support and education to individuals struggling with substance use health needs in community. They will use their unique personal and lived experiences to build positive relationships and connections with clients. They will work with folks along the substance use continuum and will act as a
part of the integrated team providing wrap-around care for clients.
PRINCIPAL JOB DUTIES
Provide outreach-based connection opportunities for clients in community
alongside allied health and nursing supports
Build positive relationships and rapport with clients to establish trust
Support access to basic needs provisions (i.e. shower program and other supplies)
Provide opportunities for therapeutic listening for clients, drawing on their lived experience, where appropriate
Support client problem solving and system navigation
Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation
support on site, as required
Complete documentation of client work, as required
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
Lived experience with addiction, mental health challenges, and/or homelessness
Experience working with people along the substance use continuum
Experience supporting clients with high levels of complexity related to their physical health, mental health, substance use and access to basic needs
Emergency First Aid (or equivalent) and CPR level C
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Strong ability to work with and build rapport with members of our priority populations
Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure, to work independently with minimal direction, to multi-task, to problem-solve, to take initiative, and to meet the needs of the client.
Understanding of Indigenous Cultural Safety principles and trauma-informed care.
We know that experience comes in many forms. If you have some of these qualities and are excited about this opportunity, then we want to hear from you. Please visit our website www.guelphchc.ca and apply using the online application tool. In your application, please include a resume and cover letter outlining how your skills, qualifications, and experience meet the position requirements.
Guelph Community Health Centre is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including individuals from priority populations who may identify as 2SLGBTQIA+, persons with disabilities, Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis individuals, and members of Black and other racialized communities.
We thank, in advance, those who apply, but will contact only those who qualify for interviews.
If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.
We require that all finalist applicants undergo a Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screen through their local Police Services Branch prior to start date.
