Case Manager - HART of Simcoe County
Case Manager - HART of Simcoe County
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Job Description
Position
Case Manager HART of Simcoe County
Program or
Team
Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Community Addictions Supports Team (CAST)
Location
Base Location: Barrie; Regional and InCommunity Work Required
Supervisor
Director of Health Services
Supported by Team Lead CAST
Term
1.00 FTE Term March 31 2027
Salary
$plus applicable benefits
The position is open to all qualified applicants although preference will be given to candidates of Indigenous ancestry (please selfidentify in your application).
About the Organization:
The Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle is a regional social planning and development organization. The BANAC service region now covers Simcoe County Muskoka and the northern York Region. BANAC works in cooperation with Indigenous communities and nonIndigenous organizations to address communityidentified priorities through coordinated planning implementation and evaluation efforts. As an Indigenousled and Indigenousgoverned organization BANAC has a mandate to support the continued promotion of Indigenous lifelonglearning selfdetermination and community participation.
BANAC offers many innovative programs and services including the Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin Indigenous Interprofessional Primary Care Team. Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin offers Traditional Healing and coordination landbased programming primary care community addictions supports and treatment counselling and wellness services and community health promotion.
About the Role:
The Case Manager plays a key role in supporting Indigenous community members who are experiencing homelessness housing precarity or complex health and social challenges. Working in collaboration with Mental Health and Addictions Outreach Counsellors and a broader interdisciplinary team the Case Manager provides culturally grounded clientcentred and traumainformed case management services. This includes comprehensive assessment care planning advocacy service navigation and coordination of supports to assist clients in achieving wellness safety and stability. This regional role involves outreachbased service delivery including in shelters community locations transitional housing and other nontraditional settings.
The Case Manager will also support systemlevel efforts to improve access to mental health and addiction services for Indigenous people by fostering strong partnerships with community organizations healthcare providers and housing systems. Rooted in Indigenous knowledge and values the Case Manager helps bridge clinical cultural and community supports to uphold the wholistic wellbeing of clients.
What You Bring:
- Relevant postsecondary education to mental health or equivalent combination of education training and/or lived experience with mental health and addictions
- Demonstrated experience working with Indigenous communities and clients to provide wholistic culturally safe and trauma informed care
- Knowledge of community resources and experience navigating and connecting with mental health and/or addictions (communitybased setting preferred).
- Must have access to a vehicle a valid Ontario drivers license and adequate automobile insurance as well as a driving record that permits insurance through BANAC.
- Ensure activities meet with (and integrate with) organizational requirements for quality management health and safety values and mission together with embracing our harm reduction philosophy.
- Utilize a clientcentered approach as to develop trusting relationships with clients.
- Understand provincial/local legislation as well as government policies procedures and practices pertaining to services provided by the agency
- Knowledge and practice of harm reduction clientcentered recovery philosophy and community service delivery.
- Knowledge of community resources connected to the provision of mental health and addiction services.
What We Offer:
We provide a generous benefits package including HOOPP paid vacation cultural leave extended holidays ongoing training opportunities and the opportunity to work in a dynamic communitybased environment.
Information About Working at BANAC Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin:
Work is typically performed in clinic office and community settings.
Regular travel will be required vehicle an asset
Regular overtime work may be required from time to time BANAC team members enjoy a flex schedule agreement
Periodic exposure to smoke may occur from the burning of sacred medicines: Tobacco sweet grass sage or cedar.
Specific employment conditions are specified in an employment contract with BANAC and include the following:
Worksite location
Valid C.P.R. and A.E.D. Certificates required
Valid Class G Ontario Drivers License is required with clear check for vulnerable sector
Applications are encouraged from qualified applicants of First Nations Mtis Inuit ancestry (in accordance with section 24.1a of the Ontario Human Rights Act United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) UNDRIP Action Plan Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action).
Applying to this Job:
Please send your cover letter and resume to with a subject line of: Attention Case Manager Hiring Committee
DISCLAIMER: This job posting indicates the general nature and level of work expected. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities required by the incumbent. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
