Crisis Intervention Worker

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Gerstein Crisis Centre Full time

**Position Title**:Community Crisis Intervention Worker (CCIW), full-time, temporary TCCS Pilot Project and Gerstein Crisis Centre

**Reports to**:Project Manager, TCCS

**Salary**:$63,609.00 per annum with comprehensive benefits package

**Dates of Employment Term**:December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024

**Closing Date**: Friday, November 24, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

**Background**:The City of Toronto is launching a 3-year community safety and crisis support service, TCCS, in four geographic quadrants of Toronto. Gerstein Crisis Centre is the anchor organization for the downtown pilot.

Gerstein Crisis Centre (GCC) believes strongly that a model in which the earliest intervention for mental health needs is provided by a mental health worker, rather than the police service, can provide opportunities to access the services people want and need to leverage help sooner, while reducing stigma, discrimination, and unnecessary police involvement. Our experience over the past three decades has demonstrated that this early intervention can put needed supports in place and often avoid involuntary interactions with emergency services such as hospitals and police.

Gerstein Crisis Centre welcomes this opportunity to build on our many years of experience and are committed to continue to collaborate, partner, and ally with others across the city to create a strengths based, integrated, accessible, community based, anti-racist and socially-just crisis response system.

**Job Summary**:The Community Crisis Intervention Worker (CCIW) provides crisis intervention, needs assessment, crisis management and follow-up services to individuals in the community who are experiencing mental health and/or substance use crisis. The Crisis Worker will work collaboratively with community members to provide help and assistance that is adapted to diverse needs and includes diversion away from unnecessary police or medical emergency response.

**Successful applicants will have**:

- At least five years of experience working in community mental health, crisis intervention, substance use specific services or experience in a related field;
- A broad understanding of all of the factors that impact an individual’s mental health and well
- being including the social determinants of health, trauma, poverty and homelessness;
- A demonstrated capacity to provide crisis intervention and utilize de-escalation strategies and interventions;
- A demonstrated ability to provide suicide risk assessment and interventions using the ASIST model;
- A demonstrated ability to work with issues related to substance use and concurrent disorders within a harm reduction framework;
- A demonstrated understanding of issues related to involvement in the Mental Health and Justice System;
- A demonstrated ability to adapt interventions to ensure equity, access, and accommodation;
- A demonstrated commitment to working through an Anti-Racist, Anti-Oppression, Trauma informed lens
- A demonstrated capacity to provide/offer interventions to a diverse client group including Persons with Disabilities, Black, Indigenous, Racialized, LLGBTQ2S+ and Neurodiverse communities
- An extensive working knowledge of community supports available in the City of Toronto;
- A demonstrated capability to be flexible and to work under pressure;
- A demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team;
- A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with clients, community partners and service providers and make appropriate use of resources;
- A current and working knowledge of relevant legislation, including the Mental Health Act and P.H.I.P.A.;
- A valid Ontario ‘G’ Driver’s License

**Primary Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Provide timely and appropriate onsite crisis intervention to individuals and families including assessment, de-escalation and conflict mediation when needed;
- Provide transportation support to shelter or community supports when needed. This may include accompaniment in crisis vehicle or provision of TTC or taxi when appropriate;
- Exercise sound judgement in crisis and/or emergency situations, requesting support of Emergency Services if required;
- Provide suicide intervention if required;
- Provide follow-up crisis management for a period of 3 months post crisis contact. This may include referral to substance use and wellness supports, housing support and referral, psychiatric assessment where indicated and wellness checks;
- Work collaboratively with clients to identify, develop and fulfill the goals they identify and meaningful and relevant;
- Work collaboratively with community partners including mental health, substance use, geriatric crisis and mental health and justice initiatives in order to maximize support of the client, ease movement through systems and help to create pathways to recovery goals;
- Arrange follow-up, linkages and referrals to appropriate resources;
- Support clients with system navigation;
- Actively participate in GC

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