Health Equity Clinical Lead

YWCA Hamilton; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Health Equity Lead to oversee gender-responsive health and well-being programs. This role involves leading a multi-disciplinary team, providing clinical mentorship, and developing innovative programming to support women and gender-diverse individuals. You'll foster a collaborative team environment while ensuring trauma-informed, culturally competent care. If you're committed to making a positive impact in the community and possess strong leadership skills, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dedicated team that values intersectional feminism and strives for equity in health services.

Benefits

On-the-job training

Professional development opportunities

Childcare discounts

Community involvement opportunities

Competitive total rewards package

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ experience with trauma, homelessness, and mental health concerns.
• Ability to work from an intersectional feminist, anti-racist perspective.

Responsibilities

• Oversee delivery of gender-responsive health programs.
• Support development of mental health and health equity programming.
• Lead case consultations and manage a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Trauma-informed care

Clinical supervision

Leadership

Mental health programming

Evidence-based therapeutic approaches

Harm reduction frameworks

Communication skills

Team mentorship

Education

Master’s degree in Social Work

Registration with regulatory body

Job description

Req#: b953b0e7-2d9c-4829-a0bc-fb267a13c773

Who We Are

Founded in 1889, YWCA Hamilton is known as one of Hamilton’s original social innovators and works from a feminist, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive framework. We are dedicated to strengthening women’s and girl’s voices, broadening their choices, building dynamic leadership and providing essential services that promote safe, inclusive and equitable communities.

YWork for us?

At YWCA Hamilton , we are intentional about fostering a workplace culture that values positive physical and emotional well-being through our values of Intersectional Feminism, People Centred, Belonging, Responsibility, and Partnerships. We invest in our employees so that we can bring our values into the communities in which we live. We offer our employees:

• On-the-job training and professional development opportunities
• Childcare discounts
• Opportunities to get involved in our community
• A competitive total rewards package

If you’re passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of women, children, and families every day, we would love for you to join our team!

Position Description

Job Code: 3-ETF-2025

Location: Hamilton, ON

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours/week

Start Date: TBD

Posting Date: April 23, 2025

Reporting to the Director of Health & Well-Being, the Health Equity Lead is responsible for overseeing the delivery of gender-responsive health and well-being programs for women and gender-diverse individuals accessing YWCA Hamilton programs.

This includes counselling and psychoeducation/therapeutic programming that address the intersection of substance use and gender-based violence/trauma, mental health, pregnancy and parenting, health equity and the social determinants of health.

The Health Equity Lead will provide support and mentorship to teams working under the umbrella of health equity at YWCA Hamilton. This role provides leadership in counselling services and social and therapeutic program development.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Lead case consultations to ensure wrap-around supports and services are delivered to women and gender-diverse people accessing YWCA Hamilton programs;

· Support ongoing development of mental health, reproductive care, and health equity programming and partnership development;

· Directly manages 10 employees in a multi-disciplinary team; including recruiting, training and evaluating performance;

· Support staff in applying evidence-based therapeutic interventions and developing evidence based programming;

· Provide clinical mentorship and support to team members through regular check-ins, debriefs and team meetings;

· Foster a collaborative team environment, promoting continuous learning and offering clinical and non-clinical support;

· Assist in staff training and professional development, ensuring the team is equipped with current evidence-based modalities and approaches;

· Support a trauma-informed and strengths-based approach to service delivery across the program and organization;

· Ensure trauma-informed, gender-responsive, culturally competent, anti-racist anti-oppressive care;

· Represents the YWCA Hamilton and always maintains outstanding public relations skills and a professional image in the community;

· Nurtures and forms meaningful internal and external working relationships and partnerships;

· Actively participate in organization-wide initiatives such as advocacy efforts and community engagement activities;

· Ensures compliance with documentation standards and high level of confidentiality when working with client information and records;

· Stays current on emerging trends, leading practices and legislation related to homelessness, gender-based violence, trauma, mental health, substance use, and harm reduction practices; uses to inform program development;

· Lead and participate in quality improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery;

· Assist in developing and refining clinical policies, protocols, and best practices;

· Support data collection and reporting to measure program outcomes and effectiveness;

· Demonstrates and model’s strong leadership behaviours as a member of the YWCA leadership team;

· Fosters a safe and healthy work environment; ensures employees comply with health, safety standards that meet or exceed legislated requirements;

· Supports YWCA Hamilton mission, vision and values;

· Participate and provide mandatory organizational and departmental trainings and meetings.

· Perform other duties as required.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

· Works 37.5-hour work week;

· Required to work off site and meet program participants where they are at in the community (including shelters, encampments, other services or organizations, etc.);

· Often works in high conflict situations requiring resolution and safety planning for clients and staff;

· Work environment may be unpredictable, and crisis oriented at times; regularly works in emotional charged situations requiring resolution;

· Work schedule includes days, evenings, nights, early mornings and weekends

Qualifications

· Master’s degree in Social Work or related field;

· Registration in good standing with a regulatory body (e.g. Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers) or other recognized under the Health Professions Act;

· 5-7 years’ experience working with women impacted by trauma, homelessness, gender based violence, substance use, and mental health concerns;

· Demonstrated experience in clinical supervision, leadership, and team mentorship;

· Working knowledge of harm reduction frameworks, the child welfare system, safety planning relating to gender-based violence, mental health and trauma-informed care perspectives;

· Experience in working from evidence-based approaches and using various therapeutic modalities in practice. Experience in motivational interviewing an asset;

· Experience supporting and supervising community-based mental health and/ or peer support programming;

· Experience developing innovative, equity-focused health and social programming;

· Ability to work from a non-judgmental perspective, respecting the right to self determination, autonomy and personal agency of all program participants is required;

· Must have current Standard First Aid and CPR certificate or willingness to obtain at own cost;

· Naloxone training, NCI/CPI, ASSIST certificates an asset;

· Must be able to lead and work from an intersectional feminist, anti-racist / anti-oppressive perspective for operations and strategic planning;

· Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and in high-stress environment;

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills;

· Must provide a current Vulnerable Sector Police check or willingness to obtain at own cost;

· Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, and also work effectively in a team;

· Bilingual English/French or other languages an asset.

As part of YWCA Hamilton’s commitment to Access and Equity, we strive to represent the diverse communities that we serve. Individuals who are women, First Nations, Métis, immigrant, refugee, LGBTQ2S+; individuals with disabilities; and individuals from racialized communities or other marginalized communities are encouraged to apply.

Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process. Please inform us of any accommodation requests.

Please Note : Personal information collected during the recruitment process will only be used for employment opportunities only in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. Only applications from individuals eligible to work in Canada will be considered.

Thank you for your interest in YWCA Hamilton. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

About the company

YWCA Hamilton strengthens women’s and girls’ voices, broadens their choices, builds dynamic leadership and provides essential and meaningful services.