Community Mental Health Worker - Child and Adolescent - Repost

Requisition ID: ​411298

Position Number: 480-715701091C565-13

Posting End Date: Open Until Filled

Employer: ​ Southern Health-Santé Sud​

Site: ​ Mental Health

• Ste. Anne​

Union: ​MGEU​

Department/Unit: ​Mental Health & Addictions​

Work Location: Mental Health

• Ste. Anne

City: ​Ste. Anne​

Hiring Status: Temporary

FTE: ​0.80​

Employment arrangement: ​In Person​

Daily hours worked: ​7.75

Anticipated shift: ​Days​

Annual base hours: ​2015​

Anticipated Start Date

• End Date: As mutually agreed – 08/07/2027

Reason for Term: Maternity Leave

Salary : -

This text is available in French upon request. |Ce profil de poste est disponible en français sur demande

Find your rewarding career in a vibrant and diverse community within Southern Health-Santé Sud. Our organization is privileged to provide care for people at every point in their lives.

Partnering with our communities, we provide safe, accessible and sustainable people-centered health care. We are proud to work in collaboration with all our partners within and throughout our diverse region: seven First Nations Communities, Francophone, Métis, Mennonite and Hutterite communities as well as a growing number of immigrants from all over the world.

Be part of the Southern Health-Santé Sud team, who is rooted in what matters most. Join a region that offers a lifestyle like no other – a safe, peaceful, beautiful, fulfilling life for you and yours.

Trouvez une carrière enrichissante dans une communauté dynamique et diversifiée au sein de Southern Health-Santé Sud. Notre organisation a le privilège de fournir des soins aux personnes à chaque étape de leur vie.

En partenariat avec nos communautés, nous fournissons des soins de santé sûrs, accessibles et durables, axés sur les personnes. Nous sommes fiers de travailler en collaboration avec tous nos partenaires dans notre région diversifiée : sept des communautés des Premières nations, des communautés francophones, métisses, mennonites et huttérites, ainsi qu'un nombre croissant d'immigrants du monde entier.

Faites partie de l'équipe de Southern Health-Santé Sud, qui s'enracine dans ce qui compte le plus. Joignez-vous à une région qui offre un style de vie sans pareil - une vie sécuritaire, paisible, belle et épanouissante pour vous et votre famille.ext is available in French upon request. |Ce profil de poste est disponible en français sur demande

Position Overview

The Community Mental Health Worker (CMHW) is a clinician who provides psychosocial assessment, consultation and evidence-informed counselling intervention and psychosocial rehabilitation to individuals referred to the mental health program for mental health related problems. Through the application of therapeutic skills that promote and build on individual’s strengths, the CMHW assists the individual/family to maximize independence, self-responsibility and promotes personal wellness, community integration and social justice.

Depending on individual needs and particularly when working with individuals with enduring mental illness, the CMHW applies case management functions that focus on functional assessment and skill development, relapse prevention, and rehabilitation.

Services are based on the principles of recovery, empowerment, self-determination and responsibility and are part of a continuum of mental health services. Clinicians operate within a collaborative care structure and provide time-limited, goal-oriented, change-focused interventions and/or consultations that are based on informed consent, voluntary participation and within individual capacity.

The CMHW requires a diverse and comprehensive knowledge base about trauma informed psychiatric care as well as other adopted mental health therapies and the ability possess and integrate into practice crisis management and suicide intervention skills. The CMHW exercises the appropriate level of initiative and independent judgment in determining work priorities, work methods to be employed and action to be taken on unusual matters.

The CMHW as part of the Child and Adolescent program portfolio will work in an integrated team approach, within a framework of mental health clinical practice, including consultation, assessment, therapeutic interventions, and evidence-based treatment. The CMHW - Child and Adolescent, requires a diverse and comprehensive knowledge base about trauma informed psychiatric care as well as other adopted mental health therapies and the ability possess and integrate into practice crisis management and suicide intervention skills.

The CMHW - Child & Adolescent will work collaboratively with primary health care providers, specialists, families, and services/agencies involved with the child/adolescent.

The Community Mental Health Worker works to the full scope of practice and engages in ongoing education and maintains competency congruent with Southern Health-Santé Sud policies, professional standards of practice, the appropriate college and code of ethics and the Regulated Health Professions Act. The position functions in a manner that is consistent with the mission, vision and values; and the policies of Southern Health-Santé Sud.

Experience

Minimum two (2) years’ experience providing evidence-based therapy to children and adolescents, 3-5 years preferred.

Minimum of two (2) years supervised counselling experience.

Experience and training in trauma informed care, Brief Treatment models, CBT, DBT, etc.

Experience in providing mental health services for adults or children and adolescents or adults with serious mental illnesses, or senior’s mental health.

Experience in completing psychosocial assessments and mental status examinations.

Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)

Graduate of an accredited post-secondary education in Health-Related Social Sciences (e.g. BSW, BScMH, BScPN, BN, RPN). Other relevant educational qualifications and experience may be considered.

Master’s degree an asset - qualified as a Psychiatric Nurse, Occupational Therapist (MOT), Clinical Social Worker (MSW), Family Therapist (MFT), Masters of Counselling Psychology (MACP), or equivalent.

Training and demonstrated skill in the following areas: clinical assessment and case formulation, psychotropic medications, psychopathology, individual/group/family/systems intervention.

Certification/Licensure/Registration

Active license and registration to practice as required by professional association and provincial legislation.

Certificate in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST).

Qualifications and Skills

Knowledge of child and adolescent development, and mental health issues in childhood and adolescence including suicide risk assessment and risk management.

Knowledge and understanding of all aspects of mental health service.

Advanced mental health psychosocial assessment skills and knowledge of appropriate evidence informed therapeutic counseling models, approaches and interventions.

Advanced knowledge of human developmental theory and mental health concerns typically identified for various populations across the age spectrum including signs and symptoms of mental illness.

Knowledge of recovery principles in the treatment of mental illness.

Knowledge and understanding of co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

Knowledge of commonly prescribed psychotropic medications for mental disorders across the age spectrum.

Knowledge of mental health self-help and client and family engagement in mental health treatment.

Knowledge of relevant legislation and standards in Manitoba i.e. Personal Health Information Act and others as specified by Southern Health-Santé Sud and program area.

Proficiency with MS Office suite of programs and other technological applications (i.e. telehealth).

Demonstrated excellence in communication, interpersonal and organizational skills.

Demonstrated ability to prepare written communication.

Demonstrated ability to complete psychosocial assessment, including mental status examination, preparing diagnostic impressions, and identif