Harm Reduction Coordinator – LAUNCH - Job ID: 2026-129

Parkdale Queen West CHC; Toronto; Presencial; CAD 60 000 - 73 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Group Benefits

HOOPP

Resumo da oferta

Parkdale Queen West CHC is seeking a Harm Reduction Coordinator – LAUNCH to lead outreach harm reduction education across shelters and homelessness services in Toronto. You will plan and deliver curricula, support PWUD and service staff, and coordinate with site partners to reduce overdose events.

This full-time replacement position runs 35 hours per week within the UFCW Local 175 bargaining unit, with compensation from CAD 59,592 to CAD 72,607 per year plus benefits.

Qualificações

• Significant experience in harm reduction programs serving homeless populations.
• Knowledge of drug use, including injection practices.
• Experience with overdose prevention and naloxone training.
• Ability to build partnerships with shelter operators and service providers.

Responsabilidades

• Plan and deliver harm reduction curriculum and education across homelessness services.
• Collaborate with shelter sites to coordinate person-centred care for PWUD.
• Support team members in client de-escalation and direct client care as needed for quality assurance.
• Focus on reducing overdose events and increasing uptake of harm reduction practices.
• Mobilize COVID response and coordinate shelter resident support as needed.

Conhecimentos

Harm reduction experience

Homeless population experience

Naloxone training

Boundary setting

Diversity and inclusion

Ferramentas

None

Descrição da oferta de emprego

JOB POSTING

Full Time Regular Position

Job ID: 2026-129

Harm Reduction Coordinator – LAUNCH

Full-Time Regular Positions (35 hours/week), Bargaining Unit - UFCW Local 175

Position Status: Replacement for existing position

Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre

Parkdale Queen West CHC is a dynamic, community-based health care organization that has historically served mid-west downtown Toronto, and now provides outreach services to across the entire city. Offering a broad range of services, including primary health care, dental care, harm reduction, health promotion, counselling, and community development programming, we are also committed to serving people who face barriers to health care, and we strive to reduce these barriers. PQWCHC is a multi-sited organization.

We are seeking an experienced health educator and harm reduction leader who shares our passion for making a difference; you see this role as an opportunity to take the next step in your successful career while contributing to a vision of Inclusive Communities. Responsive Healthcare. Healthier Lives.

Striving for excellence in client-centred programming and community-based education, you will work as part of a team of harm reduction coordinators, overdose prevention support workers, and client support workers, within a harm reduction framework, and in alignment with the vision and values of PQWCHC. In so doing, you will be accountable for ensuring outreach services follow healthcare legislation as well as PQWCHC policies and procedures. This position is an outreach position, which entails working in community settings such as shelters, respites, and sheltering hotels. This job will require flexibility to work across the city, depending on where harm reduction services are needed. This position may also require flexibility to work late evenings and weekends, as required by the covid isolation support function of the job.

General Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Manager, Urban Health - Harm Reduction Services, and using a harm reduction and trauma informed approach, you will plan and execute harm reduction curriculum and education across the homelessness services sector, for both social services staff and service users. You will also collaborate with other services and partners within sheltering sites to coordinate person-centred care for people who use drugs (PWUD), who are accessing or residing in shelter and respite spaces. Additionally, when needed, you will support other team members in client de-escalation and direct client care, when it is relevant to quality assurance and overall program rollout. The focus of your work is to reduce overdose events and increase uptake of harm reduction practices, and provide skill-building opportunities and education through a variety of strategies including: shelter in-reach, resource development & distribution, linkages to clinical and community care and safe supply programs, crisis intervention, advocacy, community education, support to embedded overdose prevention sites, partnership development with site operators, harm reduction programming and collaborating with our project partners.

The role of harm reduction coordinator also includes planning and execution of in situ harm reduction support for shelter residents self-isolating as per directions from Toronto Public Health, to prevent COVID transmission within the shelter system. In this capacity, the coordinator oversees provision of a managed alcohol program (MAP), and coordinates reconciliation of shelter residents’ medications, to prevent acute withdrawal. Coordinators will be required to mobilize around COVID response should the need to uplift a new fixed isolation site(s) emerge.

Qualifications:

• Significant experience working in a harm reduction program and/or a community setting, working with homeless and marginalized populations, including people who inject illicit drugs.
• Substantial knowledge of drug use, specifically injection drug use, acquired through a combination of work experience, lived experience and/or education or training
• Experience with overdose prevention and response, and training in/experience with naloxone administration.
• Ability to assert and maintain strong boundaries.
• Familiar with community services and resources.
• Respect and value the diversity of communities and individuals.
• Proficiency in one or more languages other than English would be an asset
• Experience in the following areas also an asset: working in a supervised consumption or overdose prevention service; providing overdose training, including naloxone administration; and working with people who use drugs, racialized populations, Indigenous peoples, people who engage in sex work, prisoners/exprisoners, people with mental health challenges, and people who have experienced trauma.

Compensation:

$59,592 to $72,607 per annum plus Group Benefits and HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan)

Job ID: 2026-128

Please also note that the successful candidate will be required to provide a police vulnerable sector check as a condition of employment, however strong consideration is made to the type of offense. Employment is conditional upon having had a full series of COVID-19 vaccinations (2 doses, plus booster within 6-12 months) 14 days before starting employment.

PQWCHC is committed to the principles of access and equity. PQWCHC is committed to reflecting the diversity of the communities it serves and we encourage applicants who reflect Toronto’s Indigenous, LGBTQ2, racial, and cultural diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request. Parkdale Queen West CHC is in full compliance of the Ontario Human Rights Code and does not discriminate on the ground of records of offenses.