Social Worker – MMOP

The KIM team invites applicants to apply for an exciting opportunity to join our Minoayawin Mobile Outreach Program as a Service Coordinator!
The Minoayawin Mobile Outreach Program (MMOP) is a bundle of services that are provided to the unhoused residents of Thompson. It is a place where they can receive trauma informed, low to no barrier health care, that is grounded in anti-indigenous specific racism approaches that honor and give equal validity to Indigenous ways of knowing. The overall aim is to promote physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing in ways that ensure respect and dignity of unhoused community members living in Thompson Manitoba and surrounding First Nation communities.

We are seeking a Social Worker who is passionate about promoting health and wellness equity for First Nations people living in Thompson, Manitoba to join the Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin MOP team. With this program, Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin strives to offer integrated primary care and harm reduction services, Elder-led cultural care, food as Medicine, and a range of specialized programs. The successful candidate will support and will be part of a multidisciplinary team to provide both outreach-based services and clinic based physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness and harm reduction services. These services will be delivered in a way that give equal validity to both Indigenous and Western knowledge bases and practices and these services will be strength-based, trauma-informed, person-centered, and grounded in Indigenous harm reduction. Our goal is to contribute to a health system that is accessible, free of Indigenous specific racism and truly meets the needs and desires of the unhoused community members of Thompson and surrounding communities.

Job Summary:

The Service Coordinator will be a key member of an integrated, multidisciplinary wholistic wellness services team, and will provide high quality, Indigenous specific racism free, assertive community treatment and care to community members accessing the MMOP. Working in conjunction with primary care providers (Physicians and Nurse Practitioners), Allied Health providers (Elders, Counsellors, Registered Nurses, Peer support workers), the Service Coordinator will support program participant’s in accessing several health, mental wellness, social service, primary care, harm reduction services, and Knowledge Keeper/Elder services in the community of Thompson and in First Nations communities across Northern Manitoba. The Service Coordinator will strengthen referral pathways through developing connections with a collection of service providers and along with the program participants, will create a plan for wellness and balance in physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual domains and then ensure that this plan is implemented and evaluated. All work will be completed in an Indigenous specific racism free care environment.

The ability to speak one of the northern First Nations languages is desirable. Preference will be given to a candidate with roots to a northern First Nation community.

The successful candidate will possess the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Social Work (BSW).
• Registered or eligible for registration with the Manitoba College of Social Workers.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive assessment of MMOP participants that may include mental wellness status, substance use history, education and employment, social development and functioning, family structure and relationships, activities of daily living, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness.
• Experience as a Social Worker providing clinical services to program participants on an individual, group, and family basis, in community-based settings or in a location that serves First Nations community members and/or communities with multiple barriers to health and wellness equity.
• Knowledge with supporting First Nation populations who struggle with intergenerational trauma, complex trauma, homelessness, mental wellness challenges, and substance use disorders and inadequate housing.
• Experience with OAT (Opioid agonist therapy), Managed Alcohol Programs (MAPs) and other clinical harm reduction practices is desired.
• Comprehensive knowledge of other health care and allied health, peer support and person’s with lived experience (PWLE) disciplines and their role in wholistic participant care.
• Ability to deal effectively with conflict, positively manage aggressive behavior, and use trauma-informed non-violent crisis intervention and behavioral management techniques.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Flexible, team-oriented, and committed to respectful, collaborative problem-solving with MMOP team members.
• Acts as a Social Work resource to the other disciplines, health care agencies/facilities and organizations that the MMOP collaborates with to support continuity of care.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and prioritize work.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize current critical theory research and practice approaches in within an evidence-based clinical/medical practice.
• Knowledge of First Nation Peoples and First Nations culture is desired.

The Following are considered conditions of employment:

• Must be able to physically carry out the duties of the position. (Physical ability to sit, stand, and safely lift up to 50 pounds; the ability to assist clients with mobility challenges; bending twisting, driving for short periods of time).
• Must be able to work with latex, and other materials in standardized safety equipment.
• Satisfactory criminal record/vulnerable persons/child abuse registry checks will be required.
• Must be able to travel on occasion, with appropriate notice, by air, land, and boat.
• Must be able to work some evenings and 1 weekend shift per month for outings and events based on programming needs.
• Must be eligible to work in Canada.
• Must have valid Manitoba driver’s license

For more information or to join our growing team of experts, please submit your resume and cover letter to Trenton Schreyer at [email protected]

Applications will be accepted by email until Friday, December 5th, 2025, at 4:30pm.

Established in January 2019, Keewatinohk Inniniw Minoayawin (KIM) is a northern First Nations-led aggregate health organization that will work to transform health and wellness services and improve health outcomes for First Nations people. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits structure, and opportunity for advancement.