Mental Health Counselor or Worker

3 weeks ago

Thunder Bay, Canada Independent First Nations Alliance Full time

**Job Title**: Mental Health Counsellor

**Department**: Health Services

**Start Date**: ASAP

**Position Overview**:
**Reporting to**: Mental Health and Wellbeing Manager

**Located in**: Thunder Bay, ON

**Responsibilities**:
1. Program Development - Establish strategic goals, milestones and measures of success for counselling services within Mental Health and Addictions programs within IFNA communities. - Develop educational material and group content for counselling and training programs - Support the development of Policies and Procedures in context of counselling delivery of care model. - Identify gaps and solutions to mental health needs in communities through ongoing community assessments and trends through a culturally safe lens. - Develop proposals and maintain lead roles in project delivery and tracking of required deliverables including reporting. - Provide ongoing reports and recommendations.

2. Client Services - Conducting intake assessments and creating care plans from a multifaceted approach with a key role in an integrated circle of care. - Provide psychological counselling services such as personal counselling, group counselling, and crisis counselling. - Provide long term counselling with culturally relevant individual treatment plans from a biopsychosocial approach. - Assists the client with preparing for residential treatment services for clients needing long-term treatment as well supporting re-integration after treatment. - Support clients in accessing specialized services for mental health needs. - Receive and respond to referrals from IFNA communities for individualized mental health and case management services providing trauma-informed, culturally competent support.

3. Crisis Intervention and Emergency Support - Providing crisis intervention services for clients who are experiencing acute mental health crises. This may involve providing immediate counseling services and making referrals to emergency services if necessary. - Maintains a role in emergency operations as needed. - On-call emergency operations such as evacuation support, mental health emergencies, and crisis, COVID-19 outbreak.

4. Administration and Records Management - Provides a specialized mental health role alongside IFNA Community Leadership and Front-line Workers as part of an interdisciplinary care team. - Maintaining accurate and up-to-date client records in compliance with legal and ethical standards (HIPAA). This includes documenting client progress, treatment plans, and other relevant information. - Maintains accuracy and confidentiality for client records (HIPAA guidelines compliant). - Maintains up-to-date reports to supervisors, funders, and community leadership. - Other duties as assigned.

5. Community Education and Networking - Collaborating with other healthcare providers ensuring clients receive comprehensive continuity of care. This may include advocacy, service delivery review and creative shared approach to problem solving. - Provide mental health expertise to clients, workers and partners within systems in evolving situations. - Promotes health and education by creating and providing education programs for the community such as youth, recovery clients, and staff such as Harm Reduction education for a variety. - Maintain a health promotion lens in service delivery supporting optimal health of every individual. - Other duties as assigned.

6. All employees who work at IFNA cover for each other during vacation, if someone is away sick or if there are demands on the organization that require extra time and effort to complete. This means occasionally they be asked to do tasks outside the normal scope of their position.

Position Requirements:

- Must have a bachelor’s degree in counselling, psychology, or a related field.
- Degree and/or training and experience working in mental health-related fields.
- Experience in providing one-on-one counselling.
- Ability to lead mental health groups (education, counselling, aftercare).
- Excellent team leadership, critical thinking, and advocacy skills.
- Highly self-motivated and willing to take initiative as part of a team.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
- Experience in maintaining confidentiality (HIPAA compliant).
- Maintain healthy boundaries and professionalism in context of dual relationships protecting the clients from professional judgment, independence and/or competence outside of direct client care.
- Ability to assess personal safety and well-being in complex situations.
- Understanding of Indigenous history, traditions, and beliefs with the ability to implement cultural values and practices within the delivery of services.
- Familiarity of Indigenous communities and organizations; experience working for an Indigenous organization would be considered an asset.
- Ability to speak in one of the IFNA First Nation languages an asset.
- Follow Social Work Code of Ethics
- Valid Driver’s license

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