Health Equity Clinical Lead

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…