Family Social Worker

2 weeks ago

Alliston, Canada Canadian Mental Health Association, York Full time

**Why work for CMHA York Region?**

We are a team committed to our vision of mental health support for all. We offer an inclusive, innovative and high-performance work culture that helps us deliver transformational impact. The organization cares about the growth, safety, and well-being of employees and offers:

- HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan)
- Robust Performance and Career Development program
- Learning & development opportunities

**We are hiring a Family Social Worker in our Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT)-SS Program JOIN US at CMHA-YRSS; where innovation and community mental health care intersect**

**Closing Date**:July 3, 2024

**1-Year Contract, Full-time,** 35 Hours per Week, Evening Hours and Weekends may be required

**Salary**: 61,500$-65,800$ per annum _*To commensurate with experience_

**Location**:
The Social Worker for the ACTT-SS Program will work from the Alliston Office, located at 35 Victoria Street East Town Square, Unit #1, Alliston, ON L9R 1T9 on the days of on-site work. The incumbent will work out in the community/ client visits with regular travel in the Alliston area, York Region & South Simcoe required.

**Job Profile**:
The Social Worker is an integral member of the team who provides counseling and guidance to ACT clients. The social worker counsels individuals and family members regarding behavioral modifications, symptom management, rehabilitation, social adjustment, and financial assistance.

The Social Worker uses bio-psychosocial, Recovery, and empowerment approaches, including natural supports wherever possible to enable clients to maintain and develop optimum functioning and social roles. The Social Worker works with clients ages 16 years and older with serious and persistent mental illness with severe functional challenges, who have avoided or who have not responded well to traditional community-based or other outpatient mental health care and psychiatric rehabilitation services. Clients may have additional challenges such as personality disorders, concurrent disorders (substance abuse and mental health issues), traumatic brain injury, developmental disabilities, they may be homeless, or involved with the criminal justice system. In collaboration with the team, Social Worker uses individual and group empowerment oriented social work methods based upon a strengths Model approach to help combat stigma, promote optimal personal functioning and resilience, as well as community engagement by the client, significant others, and their family. The Social Worker collaborates with clients to provide individualized and flexible services to engage, support, and integrate them into the community, and facilitates their use of resources and supports to maximize their independence and potential and promote their recovery.

In addition to adhering to all organizational policies and procedures, Social Workers are expected to adhere to the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Services Workers.

**The ACTT team social worker is responsible for**:

- Counselling and educating families about severe and persistent mental illness.
- Interviewing individuals, families and significant others to assess clients’ social, emotional, physical and mental impairments, as well as financial needs.
- Assisting clients in obtaining appropriate community resources for financial support, such as ODSP, Ontario Works, supportive housing, etc.
- Determining clients’ eligibility for financial assistance, where appropriate.
- Leads group counselling sessions and plans psychosocial programming for clients in need of specific services, essentially serving as a liaison between social service agencies and clients.
- Developing program content, organizing, and leading activities planned to enhance the social development of individual ACT clients.
- Investigating and monitoring home conditions to determine safety and avoid harmful living conditions, in partnership with the rest of the clinical team.
- Obtaining a thorough social history in a timely manner with each new client and bringing relevant concerns to the attention of all team members.
- In this role you will provide family support and therapy specific to ACT clients’ families as this is a cornerstone of ACT services.
- Plan and facilitate Family Support Groups for our ACT teams
- Offer individualized psychoeducation about the client’s illness and the role of the family and other significant people in the therapeutic process (topics such as: resolving conflict, and maintaining relationships with family and/or other significant people).
- Establish ongoing communication and collaboration, face-to-face and by telephone or electronic media, between the ACT team and the family.
- An essential core activity of ACT is supporting client self-determination in relation to legal matters (charges, diversion, probation, CTOs, SDMs, PGT- guardianship, POA, Mental Health Advance Directive

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