Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services Peer Outreach Worker – Slovak and Hungarian – speaking Contract in Toronto, ON

Overview

Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services

Branch Toronto ON CA

Position:
Peer Outreach Worker – Slovak and Hungarian – speaking
Location:
Toronto, ON

Support families to develop social support networks. We do this by facilitating access to services and addressing systemic inequities….

Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services (AAMHCS) is a Community Health Centre that aims to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities. We do this by facilitating access to services and addressing systemic inequities. The Centre envisions a future in which diverse individuals, families and communities can achieve health with dignity .

We have a strong and vibrant Newcomer Family Initiative which includes a Peer Outreach Program. This program provides free training and practical experience to newcomer women to provide outreach, interpretation and education services to families in their communities. We are strengthening our program by adding a Peer Outreach Worker to our team who speaks both Slovak and Hungarian language. We are seeking a motivated woman who is eager to develop new skills and knowledge .

Responsibilities:

• Participate in an extensive orientation, training and work placement program
• Outreach to isolated newcomer families with young children from 0-12 years old
• Refer and link families to language appropriate and culturally sensitive individual and group supports
• Provide information on program and services for families with children age 0 to 12 years old
• Support families to develop social support networks
• Co-facilitate parenting and health education groups with professional staff from AAMCHC and partner agencies
• Provide interpretation (ability to pass interpreter assessment and training required)

SKILLS AND Qualifications:

Those who are interested in applying should have:

• A good understanding of parenting and settlement issues in their community
• Experience both as a parent and newcomer
• Knowledge and awareness of community resources in Toronto
• Ability to communicate (verbally and written) in English, Slovak and Hungarian
• Good interpersonal, and communication skills required
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends
• Ability to travel extensively throughout the city (no car needed)
• Community outreach experience (preferred)

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week

Duration: Two years contract

Bargaining Unit position: United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 175

This is a training position. No post secondary education is required.

No phone calls please.

We thank all applicants for their interest but only those selected for an interview will receive acknowledgement. Please note that a criminal background check will be conducted for this position.

We encourage applications from individuals who reflect the broad diversity of communities we work with, including those from racialized and LGBTQ communities.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Access Alliance encourages a scent-free environment. Employees, students, volunteers, and visitors are asked to refrain from wearing fragrances and other scented personal care products (i.e. perfumes, lotions, hairspray, etc.) while at the Centre.