Registered Social Worker; Part-Time

Posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Position Title: Registered Social Worker
Program: West Ottawa HART Hub
Department: West Ottawa HART Hub
Reports to: Director, West Ottawa HART Hub
Type: Regular Part-time, 17.5 hrs/wk
Pay Scale: $32.462/hr to $38.189/hr

Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre is an innovative, community-based, multi-service centre. We strive to meet the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We work in partnership with individuals, families, and communities to achieve their full potential, paying particular attention to those who face barriers to care due to race, gender, income and/or ability. PQCHC is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce.

If at any stage in the selection process, you require accommodation due to a disability, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.

The West Ottawa Homeless and Addiction Recovery Treatment (HART) Hub (WOHH) is a new collaborative initiative being driven by seven core partners and led by PQCHC, with support from more than 20 organizations across the region. The HART Hub will provide safe, low-barrier and judgement-free access to a full continuum of services for people in need of support with their substance use health.

This continuum will include primary care, addiction medicine, withdrawal and treatment services as well as housing support, peer connection, and access to social services. The West Ottawa HART Hub will operate out of two locations: a main location housing a walk-in clinic and withdrawal management and a secondary location housing the residential stabilization and treatment services.

The Registered Social Worker is a core member of the West Ottawa HART Hub’s interdisciplinary team. They will provide trauma-informed, harm reduction–based psychosocial assessment, brief therapy, crisis response, care coordination, group facilitation, and system navigation for clients accessing substance use health services.

Working in close collaboration with case managers, peer workers, addiction medicine, primary care providers, and housing supports, the social worker will play a critical connector role—ensuring clients are linked to the right supports at the right time, including step-up and step-down pathways across the continuum of care. This includes supporting individuals at initial intake, during periods of transition or stabilization, and post-treatment touchpoints to strengthen engagement, trust, and continuity.

• With the client’s consent, conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments to inform individualized care plans based on the client’s goals.
• Provide short-term, solution-focused, trauma-informed, and/or cognitive-behavioural interventions (individual and groups).
• Deliver brief therapy and micro-counselling interventions specific to substance use health and concurrent disorders.
• Offer crisis intervention as required.
• Participate in interdisciplinary case conferences to support coordinated care and aligned approaches.

• Act as a “mortar between the bricks”—helping clients access and navigate the full continuum of health, housing, income, and social supports as applicable to the goals of the client.
• Coordinate care with external partners including substance use health treatment programs, mental health support, peer supports, income supports, housing providers, and community-based agencies.
• Support clients in maintaining connections post intensive services (e.g. post withdrawal management services; post stabilization and/or substance use health treatment), to reduce service gaps and support sustained health and wellness.

• Develop and facilitate therapeutic and psycho-educational groups for individuals with substance use and concurrent disorders.
• Collaborate with people with lived and living experience, peers, clinicians, and partners to design and adapt programming responsive to client needs.

• Embed principles of harm reduction, anti-oppression, health equity, and trauma-informed care in all interactions and…