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OICHI is a non-profit rooted in the principles of harm reduction. Our employment opportunities provide a great opportunity to get involved in rewarding, high-impact work addressing the key social challenges of homelessness, drug toxicity, mental illness, racism, and oppression.

We are regularly looking for skilled, compassionate and highly motivated people to join our team! When you join our team, you become part of a movement that is reshaping how healthcare and social supports are provided to vulnerable populations. Our staff are passionate advocates for change, working in environments where they can make a meaningful impact every day.

Please visit the “Apply Today” button below to see available postings.

OICHI provides a great opportunity to get involved in rewarding, high impact work addressing the key social challenges of homelessness, drug toxicity, mental illness and racism and oppression.

We are regularly looking for skilled, compassionate and highly motivated people to join our team! Please check back often.

Meet Our Team

Connecting with the community and relating through shared experiences is a precious part of being here. Helping people find trust when it’s been impossible with their past wounds is very valuable to me.

Marissa Renaud, Harm Reduction Worker, Trailer

I believe that mental health and addiction does not have a culture or religion. Working at Ottawa Inner City Health definitely makes you reflect on your own personal life and makes you appreciate what you have. Working here has taught me very important lessons.

Halima Yusuf, Client Care Worker, TED Program

Ottawa Inner City Health is a big healthcare organization where everyone has an opportunity to have a meaningful career. With the resources we have, I feel like it’s a good place for me to develop skills and work with clients.

Jonathan Buhendwa, Registered Practical Nurse, Hospice

The depth of connection that you share with both the staff and clients you work with drastically differs from other institutions like the hospitals. Working here provides you with a chance to think on your feet. As well, the clients are both some of the most challenging to work with, but also the most considerate and thankful.

Kára Keeley, Registered Practical Nurse, Trailer

Working for Ottawa Inner City Health has been more than just a job for me — it has been an incredible learning experience which, with the support of my co-workers, has also helped me grow into the person I am today. The Trailer is an essential resource in our community,providing compassion, support, and understanding in response to a complex issue which can only be solved with a multifaceted approach.

Stephan Harkins, Case Manager, Trailer

I've been working with this population of individuals for a long time and I can't imagine doing anything else. My road to becoming a nurse at OICH was a long one, filled with ups and downs mixed into the chaos are fabulous nuggets of complete joy that comes out of the small things that other people tend to forget about in our fast paced lives these days.

Tammy Patterson, Nursing Coordinator, Supportive Housing

I've been working with this population of individuals for a long time and I can't imagine doing anything else. My road to becoming a nurse at OICH was a long one, filled with ups and downs mixed into the chaos are favulous nuggets of complete joy that comes out of the small things that other people tend to forget about in our fast paced lives these days.

Tammy Patterson, Nursing Coordinator, Supportive Housing

OICHI is proud to be an incredibly diverse organization. We actively promote diversity in our workforce at all levels of the organization. We are committed to providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated with fairness, dignity, and respect. We will make ourselves accountable for the manner in which we treat one another and for the manner in which people around us are treated. We regard laws, regulations and policies relating to diversity as a minimum standard. We strive to create and maintain a setting in which we celebrate cultural and other differences and consider them strengths of the organization. Ottawa Inner City Health Inc is committed to supporting diversity, equality and inclusion.

To this end, the Ottawa Inner City Health Inc encourages persons with lived experienceof homelessness and/or substance use, BIPOC and members of the LGBTQ2S+ community to join our team and values their individual experiences.

OICH also acknowledges that we are part of the bio-medical system which perpetuates systems of colonialist and cultural assimilation, and commit to honouring a framework of cultural humility through the education of staff, honouring traditional healing through partnership with Indigenous people and reconciliation through organizational learning and change.

Job Opportunities

Research & Teaching

OICHI is dedicated to advancing the evidence base for the effectiveness of the programs and services we provide, ensuring that our work is both impactful and backed by solid research. We partner with leading organizations such as the University of Ottawa, and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute to ensure that our research meets quality and ethical standards. See our Data & Research page under the About Us section for some of our latest research activities.

Education

Ottawa Inner City Health, in association with our partner organizations, proudly welcomes learners from a broad range of health-related disciplines. At an undergraduate level, learners from nursing, medicine, and social work frequently join us within the program from the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, and other sites across the country. Post graduate resident trainees in medicine, training as specialists and family practitioners also work within the program and we have been fortunate to have other learners from different disciplines such as advanced practice nursing.

When attached to the program, those involved have learned not only the specifics of caring for homeless, but have achieved a greater understanding of life on the streets and the challenges this presents.

There are many student elective opportunities at OICH. For more information please call us 613.562.4500 or email inquiry@ottawainnercityhealth.ca. For all universities other than The University of Ottawa, students are to go through the AFMC Student Portal. For more information about the portal, contact University of Ottawa

Volunteer Opportunities

While OICHI always welcomes the presence of volunteers on our units, we do not accept applications of this nature at our office. Persons interested in volunteering are asked to apply directly with the shelter location as they each have their own set of guidelines to follow.

Salvation Army
Ottawa Booth Centre

Ottawa Mission

Shepherds of
Good Hope

Shepherds of Good Hope

Cornerstone Housing
for Women

Student Electives

Below is a list of the different types of programs we take students for. Electives include an immersive experience working within a harm reduction framework in shelter settings. Opportunities for electives in the CTS are available for students who are the right fit. For more information, please contact inquiry@ottawainnercityhealth.ca

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