Part Time Withdrawal Management Worker

Location: Brantford, ON

Hours: Part Time:
Shifts vary - Days, Afternoons, Nights, Weekend, Holidays.

Start Date: As soon as possible(Vacant Position)

At SOAR, we believe in lifting communities through compassionate, inclusive, and innovative care. Serving the communities of Brantford, Brant, Haldimand, and Norfolk since 1968, we are accredited in Children and Youth Mental Health, Community Mental Health and Addictions Services and Youth Justice Services through the Canadian Centre for Accreditation. Our departments include Employment, Justice, Mental Health and Addictions, and Housing. Join a team that’s committed to making a difference – every day.

We are recruiting for a Part Time Withdrawal Management Worker. This role is a vital part of our Withdrawal Management and Treatment Services compassionately supporting individuals withdrawing from alcohol and/or drugs. You are part of a collaborative team that ensures client safety and comfort at this early stage of their recovery. You monitor client withdrawal symptoms, administer medication as prescribed, support brief service plans and discharge plans, facilitate psycho educational groups, and assist with ongoing service and supports.

• Conduct telephone screening of clients to determine program eligibility
• Support client intake into the program
• Monitor withdrawal symptoms, administer and document client medications, and alert medical professionals to any issues which impact client’s safe withdrawal
• Support implementation of client safety, support and/or transition plans
• Deliver brief, solution-focused interventions
• Provide individual or group psychoeducation to enhance client motivation to change and support recovery
• Confidently redirect client behaviour when required, to ensure a physically and emotionally safe space for all
• Be responsive and compassionate to clients within the program
• Support safe and effective facility functioning through light cleaning and meal preparation

• College diploma or certificate in the Human/Social Services field (i.e., Personal Support Worker, Social Service Worker, Human Services Worker, Addiction Worker)
• Minimum of 2-years combined education/experience in substance use, concurrent disorders and/or mental health settings, with residential withdrawal management experience preferred
• Proficient in MS Office and be familiar with databases
• Access to reliable transportation
• Able to manage frequent exposure to vicarious traumatic stress

Salary: Starting at $24.74 per hour.

Time off: 24 hours of personal leave (pro-rated first year), annual fitness benefit.

Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for staff and their families.

RSP/TFSA matching for eligible staff.

A supportive, values-driven workplace that prioritizes your well-being.

We’re looking for someone passionate about empowering client voices, connection in community care and inclusion in action! If that’s you, we want to hear from you.

SOAR Community Services is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wyandot, the Haudenosaunee, and some of the Ojibwa Nation. The territory is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant.

We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this community, on this territory. We also acknowledge that the settler population has been able to benefit from this beautiful land. We are all treaty members and will strive to act in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and center their voices.

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