WellFort is seeking a Support Care Navigator to join our team!

WellFort Community Health Services is an innovative community health centre that is embarking on a transformational change to support the population through integrated care services across interprofessional primary care models. We are hiring multiple roles that focus on a number of patient populations across all age spans including within a new neighbourhood primary care network of 7 primary care practices, homeless shelters and community locations serving people experiencing homelessness and our hub locations in Malton and Bramalea. Multiple roles (contract and permanent) and multiple FTE’s are being recruited for. Work in all roles could be across any program among multiple sites within the Central West Ontario Health Team geography. If interested, please identify your FTE availability within your application. Please attach a cover letter and resume outlining your passion and areas of expertise.

The Support and Care Navigator assists the client along their journey through WellFort’s programs and services. The SCN may be assigned to focus on one or more stages of the client’s journey, but generally they will have the capacity to support clients through intake, assessment and service delivery and provide instrumental and community support as needed, working within WellFort’s service delivery frameworks.

The SCN works as part of an inter-disciplinary team functioning both independently and with other staff in client support and education, as well as participating in WellFort outreach to priority populations

RESPONSIBILITIES

Care Navigator Support in the Centre

• As part of the circle of care supports clients with their care plans including Health Links
• Collaborates and delivers Shared medical appointments and other wellbeing initiatives
• Collaborates and delivers health promotion, education, prevention, and CDSM workshops
• Conducts intake interviews to ensure that clients meet WellFort’s mandate
• Registers clients and collects socio economic demographic and other relevant information
• Conducts client assessments such as PHQ9’s etc.
• Leads Client Advisory Committees, client engagement and feedback mechanisms and client experience surveys
• Provides a comprehensive introduction to all eligible services
• Connects clients to appropriate community and social supports
• Provides a range of instrumental supports (forms, interpretation, and internal referrals)
• Initiates the discharge process and plans for clients as appropriate
• Conducts annual updates of socio-economic demographics
• Maintains records, forms and electronic encounter data as required
• Ensures that the welcome area is welcoming and user friendly
• Provides back-up support for the front desk as required

Client Adviser, Support and Education in the community

• Provides clients with support services, e.g. external referrals and information regarding community services, shelters, government services, partner agencies; assists clients with access to items such as clothing, food and needle exchange
• Provides occasional accompaniment to services e.g. emergency room, specialist appointments, shelters or other agencies
• Provides information on internal and external resources as required

Health Promotion

• Design and evaluate health promotion programs and activities to support clients and community members to make healthy lifestyle choices, while addressing issues that limit those choices and to enhance ability of vulnerable residents to function independently, improve or protect the environment and support the development of healthy public policy and practice.
• Supports the Health Promoter to identify and address local health and social issues that impact the health of Bramalea or Malton residents, through research
• Engage community groups and networks in support of community initiatives and represent WellFort at meetings with those groups.
• Represent WellFort at collaborative partnership meetings such as community health week, Peel Pride, cancer screening initiatives, etc.
• Identify assets and resources that can be used to build a healthier community
• Coordinate and align health promotion initiatives with delivery of community health education programs organization wide, including health education in primary and allied care and diabetes education.
• Design instruments for disseminating knowledge to and soliciting knowledge from clients, such as health education materials in the welcome rooms, client surveys and focus groups.

Multimedia

• Care Navigator Support creates content for WellFort’s Website, FrontFace and Social Media accounts, related to Health Education and Health Promotion, programs and activities. Multimedia resources include and are not limited to promotional material, videos and infographics, etc.

Administration

• Assists and supports the completion of funding proposals, grant applications, evaluations and other periodic written reports and presentations, as required
• Supervises and provides support for students from various disciplines with a particular focus on the determinants of health, primary health care and role of community development professionals within the CHC.
• Develops and implements WellFort’s health equity plan
• Develop and implement an annual work plan and work plan tracker in collaboration with direct supervisor
• Participates in research when opportunities arise.
• Provide care delivery at any of the office sites as program needs dictate.
• Consistent access to a vehicle for responsive care delivery at any care delivery location
• Other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• An undergraduate degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum of two years’ experience working for a community-based health/services and/or values-based organization.
• Knowledge of health and social service providers, their policies, and support networks in Brampton and Mississauga. Familiar with community resources and government services.
• Ability to establish good working relationships with partner agencies which provide the continuum of health and social sector services to clients.
• Excellent written communication and oral skills that meet the needs of the individual and/or community at the appropriate literacy level.
• Experience working with confidential and time sensitive documents and information.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working in a value based non-profit or social services organization.
• Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team where skills and responsibilities are recognized and respected
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of computers and various computer software applications, such as Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
• Ability to speak languages relevant to the residents of the organization’s community is an asset.

Some travel may be required so candidate must possess a valid driver’s license and have access to a reliable vehicle with current insurance.

Apply Now and Empower your Career

Candidates who self-identify as being from a marginalized community, including people with lived/living experience of drug use and/or houselessness, Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, newcomers, and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons, are encouraged to apply and will be prioritized. We invite these candidates to indicate their relevant identities in their cover letters.

Requests for accommodation due to disability can be made at any stage in the recruitment process.

The successful candidate will demonstrate a willingness to participate in WellFort’s commitment to becoming an inclusive, barrier-free health centre and an ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.

For more information visit www.WellFort.ca

Salary Range: $26.94/hr - $31.81/hr

Compensation package includes health and dental benefits and HOOPP pension benefits.

VACCINATION REQUIREMENT:
As a condition of employment, new WellFort staff must be fully vaccinated unless they have received an exemption from vaccination under the Human Rights Code. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status will be required before the first day of work or, proof of religious or medical exemption, if or where applicable.

Fully vaccinated is defined as having received the completed series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine, as recommended by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health and having received the final dose at least 14 days before your employment start date.

The candidate will be asked to provide WellFort with proof of full vaccination, prior to their employment start date. Acceptable proof is a Ministry of Health Dose Administration Receipt (or such other proof of vaccination that the Province of Ontario sanctions). This can be obtained through the Provincial portal https://covid-19.ontario.ca/get-proof/.

The requirement to be fully vaccinated is subject to the Ontario Human Rights Code. If the candidate is unable to vaccinate for a reason protected by the Code, a request for accommodation can be requested and written proof satisfactory to the organization will be required.

We thank all applicants; only successful candidates will be contacted. No agencies or phone calls please.