Job Description

Requisition ID:

381576

Position Number:

20060833

Posting End Date:

May 27, 2025

City:

Winnipeg

Employer:

St. Boniface Hospital

Site:

St. Boniface Hospital

Department / Unit:

ICN Course

Job Stream:

Clinical Support

Union:

Non Union

Anticipated Start Date:

ASAP

FTE:

Casual

Anticipated Shift:

Days;Other;Non-Repeating (non-conforming)

Work Arrangement:

In Person

Daily Hours Worked:

7.75

Annual Base Hours:

2015





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. We're united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.

Position Overview

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The Harm Reduction Response Coordinator will carry out the duties and activities at SBH to further expand harm reduction initiatives. The elements of care include ongoing project assistance, harm reduction education and roll-out, coordination, liaison, and community engagement. Must be passionate about harm reduction and overdose prevention.

Experience

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Significant experience with Harm Reduction principles and working with people who use drugs, racialized populations, Indigenous peoples, young people, people who engage in sex work, prisoners/ex-prisoners, people with mental health issues, and people who have experienced trauma.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

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Graduate university degree in a relevant discipline or undergraduate university degree with recognized equivalent work experience.

Special Training/Skills:

Advanced knowledge and appreciation of the social, economic, environmental, and cultural issues impacting on access to services in diverse communities.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

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Not Applicable

Qualifications and Skills

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Commitment to anti-oppression, cultural awareness, and responsiveness in working across diverse populations. Demonstrated excellent leadership capabilities. Highly-effective interpersonal and communication skills. Well-developed analytical and evaluative or research abilities. Highly-flexible, consistently positive, and team-oriented outlook.

Physical Requirements

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Not Applicable




St. Boniface Hospital is committed to empowering a workforce that welcomes and celebrates diversity by fostering culturally safe places for all employees. We strive to celebrate our diverse workforce and the outstanding work we do every day.

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.

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.