Mental Health Outreach Worker - Native Healing Centre

Prince George Native Friendship Center; Prince George; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Prince George Native Friendship Centre is seeking a Mental Health Outreach Worker to support clients' well-being through outreach programs. This role involves working collaboratively with clients facing mental health challenges while adhering to culturally sensitive practices and harm reduction principles. Applicants with Indigenous ancestry are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Diploma in a related field with relevant experience.
• Certifications in First Aid, Food Safe, Class 4 Driver's License, Suicide Intervention.
• Knowledge of trauma-informed care and harm reduction practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with housing, health, and employment needs through outreach.
• Provide client-centered support and engage in recreational and emotional activities.
• Work in varying outdoor settings covering evenings and weekends.

Skills

Communication

Cultural Sensitivity

Independence

Problem Solving

Education

Diploma in a related field

Job description

The Prince George Native Friendship Centre (PGNFC) delivers programs and services through a lens of reconciliation, as we have been doing since the inception of the PGNFC for the past 50+ years. A key component of this journey is ensuring the voices of each person is heard and included in our trauma informed and culturally dynamic approach; this perspective is critical to reconciliation. We respect and honour people's stories as they share their experiences, perspectives, and beliefs in the direction we are taking as an organization; we view this as a strengths-based process, where we build upon the multitude and diversity of existing strengths.

Prince George Native Friendship Centre

" We are a dynamic and compassionate team facilitating individual, family, and community growth, well-being, and mutual understanding through the "power of friendship".

Join our Native Healing Centre team as an:

Mental Health Outreach Worker

Native Healing Centre - Health Services

35 hrs a week / $30-32hr

You will be available to assist clients within Prince George with their day-to-day well-being, connecting them with services to support with housing, health, and employment needs. You will be in the field providing community/street client-centered outreach to individuals who need mental health supports but who are experiencing accessibility challenges. Your approach should embrace harm reduction practises, culturally responsive support, resource identification, recreational, social, and emotional activities.

This position will involve evening and weekend shift and will work in tandem with an additional worker and be based out of the Native Healing Centre and within our Supportive Housing Department.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Diploma in a related field with a combination of related experience.
• Certification in or willing to obtain: First Aid, Food Safe, Class 4 Driver's License, Suicide Intervention, and Conflict Resolution.
• Ability to undergo a successful criminal record search.
• Ability to work outdoors and understand harm reduction as a practice.
• Knowledge and understanding of processes to obtain Employment Insurance, Disability, GST.
• Have knowledge of trauma-informed care and practices.
• Utilize a strength-based approach to work with clients.
• Ability to motivate others towards achieving their personal goals.
• Ability to work independently with strong sense of focus, task-oriented, nonjudgmental, open-minded qualities, and a clear sense of boundaries.
• Ability to work in a variety of settings with culturally diverse families and communities with the ability to be culturally sensitive and appropriate, mentoring participants within the context of their identity, family, community, tribe, history, culture, and traditions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A strong sense of and respect for confidentiality involving both participant and fellow employees.

Preference will be given to applicants of Canadian Indigenous ancestry. We encourage all candidates to self-identify. Our process is protected by the BC Human Rights Tribunal under Non-Profit Exemption.

To apply for this position, please visit our website at https://pgnfc.prevueaps.com to submit a resume and cover letter by July 31, 2025

Prince George Native Friendship Center