Community Health Worker - Community Mental Health Point Douglas at WRHA Community Health Services

Requisition ID: 392552

Position Number: 20042547

Posting End Date: November 29, 2025

City: Winnipeg

Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority

Site: WRHA Community Health Services - Point Douglas Home Care

Department / Unit: Comm Mental Health Point Douglas

Job Stream: Clinical

Union: CUPE

Anticipated Start Date - End Date: 01/05/2026 - 05/15/2026

Reason for Term: Other Leave

FTE: 1.00

Anticipated Shift: Days

Work Arrangement: In Person

Daily Hours Worked: 7.75

Annual Base Hours: 2015

Salary: $23.944, $24.309, $24.671, $25.034, $25.410, $25.774

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Position Overview

Under direction of the manager, the incumbent works as part of the integrated Downtown/Point Douglas Community Mental Health Team. The main function of the Community Health Worker is to provide episodic assistance/services to the clients attached to the Downtown/Point Douglas Community Mental Health Program. The incumbent will assist with immediate client care needs as determined by the Downtown/Point Douglas community mental health workers. The intent of the position is to enhance capacity within the Downtown/Point Douglas Community Mental Health team to be more responsive to client care needs in the Downtown/Point Douglas community area.

Experience

• Minimum of two years (within the last five years) experience in a community-based setting.
• Extensive personal and/or professional experience working with inner city populations, including those with mental health/addiction issues, the mentally challenged, elderly, immigrants and refugees.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

• High School diploma, Manitoba standards required.
• Successful completion of a related outreach training program preferred.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

• Requires a valid driver’s license and vehicle.

Qualifications and Skills

• Understanding of community development, individual capacity building, and knowledge of community resources is essential.
• Understanding of the determinants of health and adult education is an asset.
• Knowledge of Indigenous cultural history and population impacts.
• Basic knowledge of mental health recovery philosophy.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an interdisciplinary team setting.
• Ability to initiate and work independently.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required.
• Demonstrated ability to promote teamwork, collaboration and partnerships.
• Demonstrates a professional approach in all situations.
• Proficiency in computer software.

This term position may end earlier as outlined in your collective agreement.

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.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

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.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.