Community Engagement Worker

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada YWCA Toronto Full time

**Job Details**:

- ** Job Position**:Community Engagement Worker - Mental Health and Wellbeing
- ** Employment Type**:Full-Time, Permanent
- ** Work Hours**:35 hours per week (includes days, evenings and every 5th weekend; shares on call duties)
- ** Salary**:$55,385 annually (L7), plus comprehensive benefits
- ** Location**:150 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0B1
- ** Internal Application Deadline**:Wednesday, February 1, 2023
- ** External Application Deadline**:Friday, February 3, 2023

**JOIN OUR TEAM**

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The Community Engagement Worker - Mental Health and Well-Being is responsible for leading the design and implementation of programming that promotes overall mental health and well-being, with the goals of creating an inclusive community, engagement with the broader community, and effective strategies to meet the emotional, practical and social support needs of the tenant community. The Community Engagement Worker - Mental Health and Well-Being will work within the Community Engagement Program team and alongside the Jean Tweed Centre case management team to ensure that community engagement activities support a positive and dynamic community environment with a focus on health outcomes.

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**ABOUT YWCA TORONTO - YWCA ELM CENTRE**

YWCA Elm Centre includes 300 units of permanent housing for three different resident groups: 165 units of affordable rental units for women and gender diverse people, 50 units for women and gender diverse people, women-led families and gender diverse-led families of Indigenous descent (including 10 women-led and gender diverse-led families fleeing violence) and 85 units for women and gender diverse people who are experiencing significant mental health challenges or concurrent mental health/addictions disorders. The program will provide services to the entire residential community, with a dual focus on community building and individualized supports.

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**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Acts as specialist consultant to, YWCA Elm support team, Jean Tweed Centre case managers, YWCA permanent housing and tenants in the area of innovative community engagement and capacity building with marginalized and mixed communities;
- Develops, implements and evaluates workshops, groups and individual supports that incorporate and understanding of residents’ mental health, addictions, and woman abuse issues, with attention to the value of peer supports in the Indigenous, youth, and supportive housing sub-communities;
- Acts as a resource in sharing the skills and knowledge base related to clinical mental health issues, including conducting assessments related to mental health, trauma, suicide risk assessments, and level of capacity for independent living for the purposes of determining eligibility and service planning;
- Develops and delivers programming specifically designed to promote health outcomes by supporting residents to develop and use skills to reduce harm, effectively manage their mental health symptoms, communicate effectively with health care providers about their medications and underlying health conditions, and promote stability and safety for themselves and the community;
- Assists the Intake Coordinator and Jean Tweed Centre Case Managers with the intake and move-in orientation processes, including providing assessments related to mental status, addiction and level of ability to live independently;
- Supports case management staff to develop and implement a service plan to support mental health goals, stress and mental health management strategies, social and creative engagement, and self-efficacy skills.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Completion of a clinically supervised undergraduate degree (e.g. Bsw); Msw an asset;
- Registration with Ontario college of social workers and social service workers required;
- 3 to 5 years’ experience demonstrating clinical skill in engagement, assessment, counselling and group work with an in-depth understanding of trauma, mental health and concurrent addictions, and their effects on women and children from a trauma informed and harm reduction framework (Cases for Equivalency will be considered);
- Thorough working knowledge of the diagnostic criteria in the DSM (diagnostic and statistical manual) in addition to an anti-oppression and feminist analysis of women and mental health /concurrent addictions issues;
- Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in providing support to women living with experience of precarious housing, poverty, violence/trauma, mental health/concurrent addictions issues to develop strategies for successful tenancy and successful recovery goals;
- Demonstrated ability to deliver programming that recognizes and values cultural identities (ethno-racial, LGBTQ, e.g.) And creates opportunities for strengthening community through sharing and building understanding and respect;
- Training and experience supporting peer-led initiatives or conflict resolution an asset;
- Counselling approach that is flexible, de-escalate

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