Mental Health Consultant

2 weeks ago

Oshawa, Canada Kinark Child & Family Services Full time

**Job Description**:
Kinark has introduced a benefit that gives employees in eligible roles the opportunity to work partially or fully remote if they choose to opt-in for this benefit. **This role (Mental Health Consultant) is assessed as a Remote position requiring a few days in the office (0-1 days per week) unless business demands require. This role is also eligible for compressed work week.**

**Job Summary**:
Urgent Response Services (URS) is one element of the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) and is designed to respond rapidly to a specific identified need to prevent further escalation of risk of harm to a child or youth, other people or property based on the identification of key high-risk factors.

While the focus will be on providing the child/youth and their family with mental health focused consultation, the mental health consultant will also be expected to make appropriate linkages to children’s mental health services to provide more intensive or longer-term support to the child/youth.

**The Mental Health Consultant will provide services in Durham Region, Haliburton County, Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough County, and Northumberland County**

**This is a temporary full-time position with a contract length of 1 year.**

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Assess nature and level of a child/youth’s mental health needs as well as strengths of the child/youth and family.
- Participate in the development of an inter-agency, inter-professional and cross-sectoral URS plan that addresses the single area of urgent need for the child/youth and family.
- Work with the child/youth and family to conduct risk assessments and to appropriately safety plan including providing consultation to support the plan to reduce and/or stabilize the identified high-risk behaviour.
- Provide brief intervention services as appropriate, to promote skill building and/or coping in alignment with service goal(s).
- Contribute to consensus building with other relevant disciplines, to refine and coordinate the delivery of the URS service elements.
- Ensure that planning for transition from URS is included in the plan and actively discussed with the child/youth and family.
- Provide mental health consultation that is effective, well-coordinated, family-centered and responsive to the child/youth and family’s needs.
- Participate in a wrap-around team-based approach in the development and implementation of the service response.
- When applicable, work collaboratively with other mental health professionals involved with the child/youth to ensure roles and responsibilities are clearly identified and implemented and transitions for families are as smooth as possible.
- Administer formal evaluation procedures to gather data on the impact of the URS intervention.

**Qualifications**:

- Master’s level education in social work or psychology and valid membership in the applicable regulated college.
- Experience supporting children/youth on the autism spectrum including relevant intervention strategies and common co-existing conditions.
- Experience collaborating with team members from multiple disciplines including but not limited to Applied Behaviour Analysis.
- Strong assessment skills for identifying child, youth and family’s mental health strengths and needs across domains.
- Exceptional interpersonal and relationship building skills.
- Exceptional problem solving skills and solution focused communication skills that promote positive, productive and proactive dialogue that contributes to the successful implementation of the URS plan.
- Exceptional conflict management and mediation skills to cultivate a team-based approach.
- Ability to effectively support families experiencing significant emotional distress.
- Ability to identify risk situations requiring prompt action.
- Appropriate independence using strong judgement skills to access supervision as required.
- Flexibility and adaptability to work within an evolving/changing system of service delivery.
- Commitment to supporting diverse families in respectful and inclusive manner.
- In depth knowledge of the broader service system for children and families, including crisis services and supports.
- Computer literacy.

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