Cultural Support Worker

WHO WE AREThrough the vision to eliminate poverty in our community and guided by a passionate concern for the dignity and well-being of each individual, Bissell Centre’s work is based on building relationships, hope and trust. Our mission is to work with others to empower people to move from poverty to cultural, social, and economic prosperity. We empower people to meet their own basic daily needs, participate in community and have sustainable livelihoods, secure housing, feel hope for the future and make plans for a prosperous life.

By joining Bissell Centre, you will become part of a fast-paced and dedicated team that works together to realize our vision. Are you a culturally informed Professional looking to make an impact in your community? Do you have endless optimism, ready to move and create change in the community? Through the vision to eliminate poverty in our community and guided by a passionate concern for the dignity and well-being of each individual, Bissell Centre’s work is based on building relationships, hope and trust.

Our community comes from all walks of life and so do we. Through our programs we work to empower people from meeting their own basic daily needs to having sustainable livelihoods, secure housing, and feeling hope for the future and make plans for a prosperous life. By joining Bissell Centre, you will become part of a fast-paced and dedicated team that works together to realize our vision.
Currently, Bissell Centre is looking for an individual wanting to join our Housing team. Are you ready to be our Cultural Support Worker, H2H and make an impact in our community?
Job Purpose
The Cultural Support Worker (CSW) uses a culturally informed strengths-based model that is rooted in harm reduction by providing an Indigenous lens within our Housing First work and walks alongside participants in their self-identified and self-determined goals for healing, culture, and community integration, while advocating for access and rights as needed. The CSW provides a range of service coordination and case management services for chronically homeless individuals, who are transitioning from homelessness into housing and who have concurrent mental health and substance use diagnoses.
Duties and Responsibilities
Program Delivery
The CSW performs service coordination duties for a group of approximately 20-30 Housing First participants, maintaining oversight to ensure that participant’s self-identified goals for recovery and community integration are supported by appropriate services and practices, consistent with the values of self-determination/choice and harm reduction.
Working in collaboration with other members of the Homeless to Homes team, the CSW coordinates the provision of Housing First services for clients served by the team members in their area of specialization. Because Homeless to Homes is a Housing First program, supporting participants through evictions and rehousing is also a core component of the work, ensuring that learnings and skills from each housing are not lost.

This work is intensive and highly demanding.
Main Responsibilities Research/connect individual and group supports for Indigenous participants regarding Indigenous ways of understanding healing and recovery, Indigenous services and resources, and Indigenous culture.
Actively plan, arrange and seek out relationships with Indigenous participants.
Build relationships with Indigenous participants as they connect with community and cultural events and build supports with the participant.
Collaborate with additional cultural support at Homeward Trust and Bent Arrow around ceremony and programming.
Create an effective and supportive connection between the Indigenous/non-Indigenous service providers, community supports and tenants.
Advocate for tenants as needed.
Orientate new participants to the role of the CSW and familiarize them with cultural services.
Support Follow-Up Support Workers in their case planning work.
Coordinate with the Indigenous Engagement Team with integrated support and event planning.
Perform other duties as required. Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Strong written and verbal communication…