Outreach Worker
- Temporary
Requisition ID: 395290
PositionNumber:
Posting End Date: January 16 2026
City: Winnipeg
Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Site:WRHA Community Health Services - 490/496 Hargrave
Department / Unit: Public Health TB Services
Job Stream: Clinical
Union: CUPE
Anticipated Start Date - End Date: 01/26/2026 - Indefinite
Reason for Term: Other Leave
FTE:1.00
Anticipated Shift: Days;Evenings;Weekends
Work Arrangement: In Person
Daily Hours Worked: 7.75
Annual Base Hours: 2015
Salary: $28.877 $29.863 $30.900 $31.915 $33.095 $34.198 $35.406 $36.493
Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region! Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites services and organizations. Were united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.
Position Overview
The Community Outreach Worker works with street-involved people and is responsible for initiating contact developing rapport providing support prevention education advocacy case management referral and some directly observed treatment within a public health and harm reduction service model. Services are provided through street walks mobile van outreach and at fixed sites and where people live.
Experience
- Minimum two years working with marginalized populations including but not limited to street youth sex trade workers solvent crack/inhalation and injection drug users.
- Counselling background preferred especially experience with youth and in the areas of mental health addictions abuse and sexual health.
- Extensive personal and/or professional experience working with street-involved populations including but not limited to street youth sex trade workers solvent crack/inhalation and injection drug users preferred.
Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)
- Recognized post-secondary certificate and/or Diploma in a health services or social sciences field required.
- First Aid training preferred.
Certification/Licensure/Registration
- Valid drivers license and access to a vehicle required.
Qualifications and Skills
- Knowledge of harm reduction street issues substance use sexually transmitted and blood borne infections and tuberculosis required.
- Able to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team using strong communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of immigrant and Indigenous issues and cultures preferred.
Physical Requirements
- Physically capable of performing the duties of the position under varying weather and environmental conditions.
- This position requires significant lifting of a variety of supplies the ability to move easily within the confines of a van as well as the ability to climb stairs in buildings without elevators.
- Able to spend long periods in a vehicle or walking.
- Must be able to work weekend and evening shifts.
This term position may end earlier as outlined in your collective agreement.
This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.
Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre Deer Lodge Centre Golden West Centennial Lodge Grace Hospital Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg Pan Am Clinic River Park Gardens Victoria General Hospital WRHA corporate programs and WRHA community health services.
Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.
Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.
Manitoba healthcare employers in partnership with the Indigenous community are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.
Key Skills
Load & Unload,Shipping & Receiving,Mac Os,Forklift,Freight Experience,Lift Truck Experience,Basic Math,Tanker Experience,Warehouse Experience,Commercial Driving,Driving,Heavy Lifting
Employment Type : Temp
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
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