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Harm Reduction Housing Worker - 0.4 FTE (External)
@ North End Community Health Centre
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Overview
North End Community Health Centre is hiring a part-time Harm Reduction Housing Worker (0.4 FTE) for the Overlook, a place-based, peer-supported housing program. The role delivers on-demand 24/7 harm reduction, overdose response with naloxone, and life skills supports within an interdisciplinary team, and includes overnight shifts.
Pay:
$25.02 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Deliver on-demand harm reduction supports and programs to tenants
- Respond to overdoses and administer naloxone
- Follow housing program policies and procedures
- Support participants through a person-centred approach
- Work within an interdisciplinary team
Requirements summary:
- Two years' experience in a community setting with marginalized people
- Experience with populations affected by substance use and mental health challenges
- Experience with homelessness or barriers to stable housing
- Social or health education, addictions or community work, or Human Services Diploma (asset)
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-09
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Social & community services |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Schedule | overnight |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Home, Care home |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer low |
| Education | College diploma (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Social work, Health, Addictions, Community work, Human services |
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North End Community Health Centre
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Overnight Shifts
Job Purpose:
Harm Reduction Housing Workers are accountable for delivering harm reduction programs and services to tenants/participants to support their health and well-being as well as their tenants as residents of the Overlook, including:
- Delivering ‘on-demand’ harm reduction supports and programs following a ‘housing first’ philosophy as part of a collaborative team.
- Following prescribed policies and procedures associated with the housing program
- Supporting participants through a person-centered approach
- Attending to overdoses and administering naloxone
Harm Reduction Housing Workers work with an interdisciplinary team to support participants of the Overlook – a place-based harm reduction, peer supported housing program. Tenants at the Overlook experience social and physical harm associated with chronic alcohol use, problematic drug use, chronic health conditions and lengthy homelessness. The team provides ‘on-demand’ 24/7 harm reduction to tenants, as well as various housing supports around life skills and social inclusion to ensure participants effectively manage their tenancy.
Education and Experience:
- Two (2) years’ experience working in a community setting with marginalized community members.
- Formal education in social or health fields, addictions or community work, or Human Services Diploma are an asset but not a requirement.
- Demonstrated experience working with populations impacted by substance use and mental health challenges, homelessness and/or barriers to stable housing.
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