Outreach Worker - Driver
About The Position
Radius Community Health & Healing provides interdisciplinary, team based, integrated, comprehensive, and person-centered primary health care for vulnerable Edmontonians with complex needs. Through primary care and health promotion, Radius improves the quality of life and well-being of populations and individuals who face multiple barriers to accessing health services. Radius achieves this by providing the highest standard of evidence-informed and client-focused inter-professional care. We collaborate with our clients to address the broad determinants of health. Radius Outreach workers provide support to individuals who experience socio-economic marginalization (typically involving housing, lack of transportation, literacy, and access to telephones or internet) and who have cognitive/psychiatric/serious health issues that make it difficult to access healthcare teams, social services, and other essential services. Outreach Workers work as part of a multidisciplinary team of nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, health advocates, and medical office assistants to provide comprehensive, holistic care to complex clients. Ensuring that clients are able to make it to vital appointments and essential services, the outreach worker offers a unique and person-centred approach to care that actively works to eliminate barriers for clients to achieve their healthcare goals.
Requirements
- Driver’s license in good standing, and the willingness to transport clients is mandatory
- Vehicle: must possess a reliable vehicle to transport clients in (mileage compensated)
- Strong computer proficiency (with Office suite, and EMR)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Has a good understanding of trauma-informed care, and must be able to operate within a harm reduction model of car.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant experience in healthcare, social service, homeless serving sector, or mental health and addictions an asset
- Post-secondary experience in relevant healthcare or social service discipline an asset
Responsibilities
- Transport and assist clients to medical appointments and essential services
- Through building positive relationships, provide support for clients throughout their journey through healthcare and social systems
- Build meaningful relationships with clients within their own spaces; this may be at clients’ homes, but may also be within Edmonton’s shelter systems and neighborhoods
- Build relationships with community agencies; work collaboratively with other service providers to provide support for clients
- Work as part of a healthcare team
- Use clinic electronic medical record (MedAccess); chart, communicate, and interface with the team via this system
- Assist clients with basic needs and supports
- When appropriate, and at the direction of the health care team, assist the client with basic needs such as grocery shopping.
Benefits
- Employee Assistance Plan (EAP): All employees have access to confidential counseling and access to a wide range of resources for personal and professional challenges. Our EAP is here to support your overall well-being.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits: Premiums are fully covered by Radius
- Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, and Critical Illness Coverage: Mandatory enrollment, employees are responsible to pay premiums.
- Lifestyle Spending Account: Wide variety of options available to spend an annual allowance
- Group Retirement Savings Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
