Full-time (35hrs) Community Mental Health Worker

6 months ago

Powell River, Canada Lift Community Services Full time

Full-time Community Mental Health Worker
- qathet Complex Care Housing

Lift Community Services (LIFT) focuses on helping all people thrive in the qathet region by reducing social inequities and by providing support and advocacy for anyone who needs it. Our vision is a welcoming, inclusive, and diversity-affirming community that is free of poverty and full of heart. At Lift, we believe a thriving, sustainable community comes from a collaborative, equitable, future-focused approach.

Lift Community Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

**Opportunity**

The qathet Complex Care Housing (CCH) program is a collaboration between LIFT community Services Society (LIFT), Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and Tla’amin Nation. This program represents a suite of services and supports aimed at ensuring people with significant mental health, substance use and other health complexities attain safe and stable housing as a foundation to thrive. These services support participants through transitions with the appropriate level of service as their needs change over time, in line with Tier 1, Intensive Supportive Housing and Tier 2, Stabilization and Respite, and represent an increase in services offered at Supportive Housing, and select community-based shelter and housing sites.

LIFT is seeking a full-time **Community Mental Health Workers** to join the multi-disciplinary qathet CCH team to collaborate with the healthcare team to support clients’ development of physical, social, emotional and life skills.

**Overview**:

- **Positions**: 1
- **Hours**: Full-time, 35 hours/week
- **Shifts**: Various days (Monday - Sunday)
- **Hourly Wage**: $27.15/hour
- **Competitive Extended Health Benefits**
- Up to 4% matching RRSP plan (after probation)
- 3 Weeks vacation per year
- 3 Weeks Sick/Wellness days
- **Relocation**: Relocation support may be available to successful applicants
- **Work site**: multiple locations, Powell River
- **Start Date**: ASAP
- **Closing Date**: Open until filled
- **To Apply**: Submit a self-designed resume and cover letter

**Key Tasks and Competencies**:

- Participates in case planning with clients with activities including, but not limited to: interviewing clients to identify needs and opportunities, gatherings information from a variety of sources (families, other care providers, etc.), documenting pertinent information, and collecting relevant records.
- Works with clients to determine appropriate care to meet needs, situational requirements and appropriate programs
- Implements multidisciplinary care plans, observes client’s behavior and symptoms, provides feedback regarding client’s needs, performance and progress, recognizes anticipated/unanticipated client responses to care, develops short term strategies in response to emergent situations and reports significant observations to the team or appropriate team member.
- Provides supportive counselling, demonstrations, modeling and behavior management to assist with the development of physical, social, emotional and life skills. Involves client in activities of daily living, including maintaining personal hygiene and appearance, preparing food, safety, shopping, budgeting, laundering and cleaning, time management, organization and interpersonal communication, developing a social network.
- Establishes, maintains and enhances therapeutic relationships and delivers care to assigned clients in accordance with care plans, performing duties such as taking and recording temperature, pulse and respiration, collecting specimens, weighing residents.
- Administers medications when required in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Participates in and oversees various client focused social and recreational activities which may include social groups, recreational activities, arts and crafts, games, and therapeutic and educational groups and workshops.
- Identifies client’s and family’s perspectives, learning needs and readiness to learn, initiates discussions to determine and understand client needs, goals and concerns, engages client and family in care plan, encourages informed decision making and emotional support.
- Maintains client records and provides input and feedback by participating in team care conferences and collaborates with the health care team to enhance client wellbeing.
- Acts as an advocate to assist clients in resolving conflicts and other problems with external organizations.
- Ensures a safe environment for clients and staff by adhering to violence prevention, infection control, occupational health and safety standards.
- Performs housekeeping duties as required, checks the operation of relevant equipment to ensure safe working order, and reports incident/equipment problems or general saf

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