Indigenous Intensive Case Manager - Halifax, Canada - North End Community Health Centre

North End Community Health Centre

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Halifax, Canada

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Description

Position:
Indigenous Intensive Case Manager | Supported Housing, Designated _(unionized position under NSGEU Local 102)_

Reports to:
Indigenous Wellness Coordinator, and Manager of Supported Housing

Location: 101 Yorkshire Avenue, Extension, Dartmouth, NS

Pay Scale:
$ $28.56

Work term:1.0 FTE

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, possibility for weekend and evening working hours, hybrid model of work.

Deadline:
May 15, 2024

This posting is designated for people of
indigenous ancestry and will be given priority.

We ask applicants to self-identify and share any marginalized experiences as they wish to share in our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion commitment.

Any disclosure or declaration of belonging to any of these equity groups will remain confidential.

About NECHC

The North End Community Health Centre (NECHC) was established in 1971 in response to an absence of primary health care and other health services in Halifax's North End.

Located on Gottingen Street, we are in the heart of a unique and culturally diverse community.

Today, governed by the North End Community Health Association, the NECHC is viewed by area residents as a "beacon of hope" in the community.

Much more than a Primary Care Clinic, the NECHC has expanded in response to unmet needs of community members and is highly valued by its patients and clients and their families.

NECHC provides services to those living on the margins of society, through MOSH, Housing First and a wide range of community outreach initiatives.

The Overlook, Supported Housing Project

Our new, ground-breaking harm reduction, peer supported housing project offered in collaboration with North End Community Health Centre and Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHANS).

The building will host 65 tenants, offering 24/7 support by the Harm Reduction Housing Worker Team offering on-demand harm reduction support and safer supplies.

There is an on-site nurse-led clinic, on-site Dispensary, peer
- support, harm reduction counselling. There are connections to our Harm Reduction Programs offered to support such as Safe Supply, and Managed Alcohol Program support workers. The Overlook will house 65 individuals, which in Future, will host our Melanesian Wing, Palliative Care supported by our End-of-life Care Coordinator. Tenants can access The Indigenous Wellness Team with focus upon reducing harm, reviving culture in tenants offering access to holistic supports, programs and services offered at The Overlook, and in-community when appropriate.

Vision
Strong community - healthy people.

Mission

We support health and well-being in our community through quality primary health care, education and advocacy in an environment in which people are treated with respect and dignity and there is equitable access to services and programs.

Values
Respect. Community. Compassion. Excellence. Innovation

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment

The North End Community Health Centre is committed to being an inclusive organization. We are working to ensure our organization represents the diverse people and communities we serve.

Our position postings encourage members from the following communities to apply:

2SLGBTQIA++
African Nova Scotian and/or people of African Descent
Indigenous
People with disabilities
Language minorities
People of Color and/or racially visible minorities
Immigrant and refugee
Connected to the North End of Halifax

Job Purpose

The Indigenous Intensive Case Manager (IICM) will support urban Indigenous tenants with complex needs residing in place-based settings, and scattered site housing.

This role will work closely with Indigenous Wellness Team including Indigenous Wellness Coordinator, and Indigenous Case

Manager working within interdisciplinary team to support NECHC Tenants, patients, and participants.

This role will work primarily on-site The Overlook Supported Housing offering intensive support, programming, referral, system navigation, and cultural support.

The Indigenous Wellness Team focuses reducing harm, reviving culture in those receiving support.

The Indigenous Intensive Case manager will provide holistic supports to our diverse urban Indigenous community honoring varying intersectional identities, in addition to the unique spiritualities, and ways of knowing.

It will be designed for those needing intensive support.

In this role, it will offer culturally informed harm reduction related support and system navigation, linking people to wide range of services including Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT), safe supply, and/or Managed Alcohol support, and overdose response and improving access to cultural engagement.

Goals

To offer support rooted in Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Doing through Indigenous harm reduction, personcentered, traumainformed embodying twoeyed seeing/Tatum approach. With all guided principles of decoloniz