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About the Role
VHA's Hoarding Support Coach supports clients with hoarding behaviors and comorbidities, aiming to improve housing stability and positively impact their lives. This role involves working with individuals facing health and environmental risks due to excessive clutter and acquiring.
Responsibilities
- Provides emotional support, assists individuals with goal setting, and encourages change in their relationship with items.
- Monitors and reports any changes affecting client safety immediately to the Supervisor/Lead Facilitator.
- Provides ongoing session notes to the Supervisor, including activity logs and other required details.
- Conducts activities within the client's care/service plan, adhering to VHA's policies, procedures, and confidentiality standards.
- Requires wearing PPE and working in home environments that may be severely cluttered, squalid, or infested.
Requirements
- Diploma in, or working toward: Social Service Worker, Addictions and Mental Health Worker, Community Service Worker, or a related discipline.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrating tact and diplomacy with at-risk clientele.
- Demonstrated interest in mental health issues and compulsive hoarding.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, a solution-focused approach, and crisis intervention techniques.
- Experience working with clients with mental health issues.
- Experience in community health is an asset.
- Able to work from a client-centered and harm reduction approach.
- A valid driver's license and access to a vehicle is considered an asset.
Skills
- Emotional support
- Goal setting
- Client-centered approach
- Harm reduction approach
- Interpersonal skills
- Tact
- Diplomacy
- Problem solving
- Solution-focused approach
- Crisis intervention techniques
- Mental health support
- Community health
- Driving
Location
- Community settings
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- Diploma
Salary/Compensations
- $22.42 - $25.17 (placement on salary range as per Collective Agreement)
Benefits
- Benefits and pension plan for permanent eligible employees
- Compensation for education and professional development
- Comprehensive orientation and training
- Mentorship and peer support
- Career development opportunities
- Employee and family assistance program
- Wellness resources
- Perks & discounts
- Staff & service provider events
About the Company
- VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) is one of Ontario's largest not-for-profit home care providers.
- VHA is a leading learning organization.
- VHA is accredited with Exemplary Standing by Accreditation Canada.
- VHA is an RNAO Best Practice Spotlight Organization designate.
- VHA is a founding member agency of United Way Greater Toronto.
Equal Opportunity
- VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We champion inclusion and diversity in all parts of our organization.
- A diverse workforce is key to the ongoing and future success of VHA.
- We aim to review all applicants with fair and unbiased recruitment practices where opportunities are presented based on merits, skills, and experience.
- VHA is committed to providing reasonable accommodation and our services are accessible and sensitive to the needs of diverse groups.
- If you require any accommodation, please let us know in advance as we are happy to comply.