Adult Mental Health Worker

4 days ago

Kitchener, Canada Carizon Full time

Monica Place, KW Counselling and Carizon are planning to unify. As we begin to work more closely together, we are excited to share postings across all three organizations. **The lead organization for this role is Carizon.**

Are you passionate about contributing to the community? Are you interested in working for an organization that helps families thrive by strengthening their mental health and wellbeing?

**AGENCY OVERVIEW**:
Carizon Family and Community Services helps families thrive in their communities by strengthening their mental health and wellbeing. Our vision is to inspire and facilitate Hope, Wellness, and Community through the uniquely tailored services we provide.

We deliver Children's Mental Health, Counselling, and Community Services that foster the health, skills, confidence, and resilience of every person we serve. We believe that when we help families manage life's challenges and develop strategies to move forward, we create a healthy and vibrant community for all.

This position would be working in our Polaris team. Polaris is a multi-disciplinary team providing support and treatment to families who have one or more children with significant mental health challenges. What Polaris offers to these families is: service coordination individual, family and group therapy in-home and respite support, and connection to informal community supports. Their goal is that families will be stronger, healthier, better connected and stay together.

**POSITION OVERVIEW**:
The Poaris Adult Mental Health Worker meets with the adults in these families and provides support, intervention and treatment. They invite adults to support their children’s treatment and to receive their own treatment. The Adult Mental Health Worker assists with the coordination of mental health services to the families and with the treatment program for the adults, which may include individual support and therapy, family therapy and group psychoeducation and therapy. This may also include support to adults with respect to service navigation and connections/relationship building with formal and informal supports in the community. They do this work in the office, in family homes and in other community settings.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Participate in and contribute to the comprehensive assessment of families’ needs and desires
- Assess the mental health and addiction needs of the adult family members
- Coordinate the services offered to adult family members
- Advise and support adult family members as they navigate the adult mental health and addictions systems
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive knowledge of and connections to the local adult mental health and addictions treatment system
- Provide support and treatment to adults, individually, in families and in groups using a trauma informed motivational interviewing approach and with stage matched interventions
- Contribute to the Polaris treatment planning process
- Complete documentation according to the Polaris team practices and Carizon policies.

**RESPONSIBILITIES COMMON TO ALL CARIZON EMPLOYEES**:

- Demonstrate commitment to continuously improving professional excellence
- Participate in translating the Carizon vision into successful outcomes through involvement in all the processes and activities
- Ensure awareness and maintenance of best practices and standards for agency activities
- Develop and maintain positive professional relationships with others
- Incorporate and strengthen a team-based working environment that empowers staff to be collectively responsible for ensuring the agency achieves its mission
- Contribute to overall agency operations by embracing change and innovation ensuring excellence in customer service

**EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE**:

- Diploma or degree in social work, social service work or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience
- Experience of working in partnership with families with children with mental health challenges. Is sensitive to the fact that families can experience a power imbalance in their relationship with professionals and is committed to redressing this balance
- Experience of providing support and/or treatment to adults with significant mental health/trauma/addiction challenges
- Knowledge of attachment based developmental trauma and trauma work in general
- Knowledge of and experience in motivational interviewing and staged matched interventions
- Knowledge of the local adult mental health and addictions systems, ideally with existing personal connections within these systems and if not with an ability to network effectively
- Some understanding and a willingness to learn about childhood and adolescent development and children’s mental health
- Training in or willingness to be training in First Aid and CPR

**WORKING HOURS/CONDITIONS**:

- This position will require work beyond the normal daytime work hours, with some evenings and weekends required
- Work will take plac

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