Employment Opportunity: Outreach Worker
$ 32.00 /hour plus benefits after three months
Who We Are:
Slaxin Lelum (Medicine House) is an Indigenous-led, community-based organization in Metro Vancouver that provides culturally grounded healing, wellness, counselling, and substance-use support services for Indigenous people living in urban settings. It was formerly known as the Metro Vancouver Indigenous Services Society (MVISS) and officially received the name "Slaxin Lelum" from Musqueam Elder Shane Point in October 2024. The name connects the organization's work to the local Coast Salish territories.
Status: Full time (40 Hours/Week)
Location: 1638 East Broadway Vancouver BC V5N 1W1
What you’ll be doing
- Provide individualized, trauma informed, and culturally safe employment support to women, including women with children, who are navigating complex barriers such as homelessness, substance use, mental health challenges, childcare responsibilities, and systemic inequities.
- Deliver flexible, outreach-based services in community settings where women feel safe and supported, including partner agencies, shelters, and Indigenous organizations.
- Build trusting, respectful relationships with participants, meeting women where they are and supporting them at a pace that reflects their strengths, goals, and lived experiences.
- Complete holistic needs assessments and co create personalized action plans that address employment readiness alongside essential needs such as housing, food security, childcare, income supports and safety.
- Connect women to employment services, skills training and wraparound supports including but not limited to housing services, food programs, counselling, legal supports, childcare resource and peer support networks.
- Facilitate peer support opportunities by connecting participants with others who have shared or similar lived experiences, fostering encouragement, hope, and mentorship and supporting continued healing through connection to relevant services and resources.
- Support navigation to WorkBC services and Indigenous Skills and Employment Training (ISETS) providers, ensuring clear and accessible pathways aligned with each participants goals and readiness.
- Offer flexible, responsive service options that reflect diverse experiences, caregiving responsibilities and employment pathways.
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with community service providers, indigenous organizations, employers, and wraparound supports to ensure coordinated person-centered service delivery.
- Provide ongoing coaching, advocacy, and practical support to help women navigate systems, strengthen confidence and reduce barriers to wellbeing and employment.
- Monitor progress and maintain accurate, strengths-based participant case notes, including writing reports and documenting impact stories and testimonials.
- Contribute to reporting and shared learning across programs or partners to improve wellbeing, increase employment readiness, and achieve meaningful outcomes.
- Other duties as required.
What you will need:
- 2-3 years of experience supporting individuals facing complex barriers to employment through career development, employment services or related roles.
- A degree in social sciences or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training (e.g. Carrer development), and professional or lived experience.
- A strong commitment to trauma-informed, culturally safe, participant-centered practice, grounded in equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
- Experience working alongside women and/ or people navigating intersecting barriers such as homelessness, mental health challenges, substance use, childcare responsibilities, and poverty.
- Strong knowledge of community-based supports and services, including housing, income assistance, childcare, counselling, legal services, and peer/community supports.
- Familiarity with local resources and service providers in Vancouver Kensington-Cedar Cottage and Grandview-Woodland areas.
- Familiarity with employment systems and programs such as WorkBC is an asset; awareness of Indigenous Skill and Employment Training (ISETS) providers is an asset.
- A collaborative approach to building trusting relationships with participants, community partners, Indigenous organizations, and employers.
- Experience supporting individuals to develop and follow personalized action plans, with thoughtful follow-up and encouragement toward self-defined goals.
- Experience developing and facilitating engaging, strengths-based workshops and providing one-on-one coaching and navigation support.
- Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently in a flexible, outreach-based environment while maintaining accurate documentation and reporting.
- Ability to travel within the community to provide outreach-based services in a variety of settings.
- A valid clear criminal record check (including working with vulnerable populations) is required.
Bonus qualities (but not required)
***Experience speaking additional languages is considered an asset in supporting diverse communities***
Please submit your Resume and Cover letter to: [email protected]
Closing date: Open until filled
Only those selected for interviews will be contacted
Preference may be given to qualified Aboriginal applicants per section 41 of the Human Rights Code.
Pay: $32.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
