Social Prescribing Link Worker
Top Benefits
About the role
McMan is a not-for-profit agency that has been operating since 1975. McMan provides a range of comprehensive programs across Alberta. Earning a sound reputation from success stories and positive relationships, McMan has become well known for being a responsive, highly competent, and innovative partner in service delivery. A diverse range of programs and services are accessible through local offices across Alberta to anyone who needs help. We believe that help from someone who cares should never be out of reach.
Our Social Prescribing Program located in Innisfail is seeking a: Full-Time Link Worker
The Social Prescribing for Older Adults Program is funded through Healthy Aging Alberta and has been created to bridge the gap between medical and social care services through a holistic approach. Through this approach, healthcare professionals refer patients to community-based programs to improve their health and enhance their quality of life. It is a means for trusted individuals in clinical and community settings to identify that a person has non-medical, health-related social needs and to subsequently connect them to non-clinical supports and services within the community by co-producing a social prescription – a non-medical prescription, to improve health and well-being and to strengthen community connections.
Minimum Qualifications and Requirements:
- Required high school diploma, preferred post secondary certificate or diploma from an approved institution related to human services or health care.
- Required 3 years of community work with vulnerable populations, preferred 3 years of frontline work with aging adults
- Knowledge and experience in the health care field
- Experience in community connection and system navigation
- Knowledge of the healthy aging framework
- Basic First Aid Level C with Adult, Child, and infant CPR &AED
- Suicide Intervention Training & De-Escalation Training
- Intervention Record Check & Criminal Record Check with the vulnerable sector
- Class 5 driver’s license, clean drivers abstract and reliable vehicle for client transportation.
Responsibilities include:
- Assist older adults to find and access community support through referrals and providing information.
- Assist older adults with completion of social benefit applications (AISH, Housing, AB Seniors Benefits, etc.)
- Attend appointments with older adults when appropriate to help overcome barriers.
- Collaborate with other community agencies.
- Develop personalized goals with older adults and help to achieve them.
- Act as a compliment to the older adult’s current medical care team.
- Maintain and report on program statistics and outcomes.
Wage: $23.46/hr. - $26.24/hr. Plus, Travel Reimbursement at $0.57/KM.
Benefits: McMan promotes the wellbeing of our employees, promoting flexibility, health, and wellness, as well as an excellent benefit package that includes extended health care, dental, vision as well a 100% employer contribution pension after 6 months.
Hours of work: 40 hours per week. Candidates must be available to work a flexible schedule including afternoons, some evenings and weekends to provide services that serve a wide range of populations.
Competition will remain open until March 29, 2026.
We thank all that apply. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for an interview.
About McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association, Central Region
Since opening its first program in 1975 McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association set out to be different. While operating its first group home, McMan’s founders provided care in the context of supportive and understanding relationships. The home and everyone in it was encouraged to live by the guiding values of trust, security, giving and acceptance. Today, this framework still exists and is what sets us apart. It is a winning combination to foster learning in a positive environment and these conditions are ideal for people to realize their potential, and also thrive.
Over the last four decades, McMan has grown and evolved into a dynamic not-for-profit social service agency providing a comprehensive range of programs across Alberta. Earning a sound reputation from success stories and positive relationships, McMan has become well known for being a responsive, highly competent and innovative partner in service delivery. A diverse range of programs and services are accessible through local offices across Alberta to anyone who needs help. We believe that help from someone who cares should never be out of reach.
Genuine caring for each and every person who connects with McMan is how we make a difference. From our local board of directors to our professional staff and our volunteers, we care about what we do, we care about the people we serve, and we care about the society in which we live.
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Social Prescribing Link Worker
Top Benefits
About the role
McMan is a not-for-profit agency that has been operating since 1975. McMan provides a range of comprehensive programs across Alberta. Earning a sound reputation from success stories and positive relationships, McMan has become well known for being a responsive, highly competent, and innovative partner in service delivery. A diverse range of programs and services are accessible through local offices across Alberta to anyone who needs help. We believe that help from someone who cares should never be out of reach.
Our Social Prescribing Program located in Innisfail is seeking a: Full-Time Link Worker
The Social Prescribing for Older Adults Program is funded through Healthy Aging Alberta and has been created to bridge the gap between medical and social care services through a holistic approach. Through this approach, healthcare professionals refer patients to community-based programs to improve their health and enhance their quality of life. It is a means for trusted individuals in clinical and community settings to identify that a person has non-medical, health-related social needs and to subsequently connect them to non-clinical supports and services within the community by co-producing a social prescription – a non-medical prescription, to improve health and well-being and to strengthen community connections.
Minimum Qualifications and Requirements:
- Required high school diploma, preferred post secondary certificate or diploma from an approved institution related to human services or health care.
- Required 3 years of community work with vulnerable populations, preferred 3 years of frontline work with aging adults
- Knowledge and experience in the health care field
- Experience in community connection and system navigation
- Knowledge of the healthy aging framework
- Basic First Aid Level C with Adult, Child, and infant CPR &AED
- Suicide Intervention Training & De-Escalation Training
- Intervention Record Check & Criminal Record Check with the vulnerable sector
- Class 5 driver’s license, clean drivers abstract and reliable vehicle for client transportation.
Responsibilities include:
- Assist older adults to find and access community support through referrals and providing information.
- Assist older adults with completion of social benefit applications (AISH, Housing, AB Seniors Benefits, etc.)
- Attend appointments with older adults when appropriate to help overcome barriers.
- Collaborate with other community agencies.
- Develop personalized goals with older adults and help to achieve them.
- Act as a compliment to the older adult’s current medical care team.
- Maintain and report on program statistics and outcomes.
Wage: $23.46/hr. - $26.24/hr. Plus, Travel Reimbursement at $0.57/KM.
Benefits: McMan promotes the wellbeing of our employees, promoting flexibility, health, and wellness, as well as an excellent benefit package that includes extended health care, dental, vision as well a 100% employer contribution pension after 6 months.
Hours of work: 40 hours per week. Candidates must be available to work a flexible schedule including afternoons, some evenings and weekends to provide services that serve a wide range of populations.
Competition will remain open until March 29, 2026.
We thank all that apply. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for an interview.
About McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association, Central Region
Since opening its first program in 1975 McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association set out to be different. While operating its first group home, McMan’s founders provided care in the context of supportive and understanding relationships. The home and everyone in it was encouraged to live by the guiding values of trust, security, giving and acceptance. Today, this framework still exists and is what sets us apart. It is a winning combination to foster learning in a positive environment and these conditions are ideal for people to realize their potential, and also thrive.
Over the last four decades, McMan has grown and evolved into a dynamic not-for-profit social service agency providing a comprehensive range of programs across Alberta. Earning a sound reputation from success stories and positive relationships, McMan has become well known for being a responsive, highly competent and innovative partner in service delivery. A diverse range of programs and services are accessible through local offices across Alberta to anyone who needs help. We believe that help from someone who cares should never be out of reach.
Genuine caring for each and every person who connects with McMan is how we make a difference. From our local board of directors to our professional staff and our volunteers, we care about what we do, we care about the people we serve, and we care about the society in which we live.