Mental Health Worker

5 months ago

Hamilton, Canada St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Full time

**Position Details**:
**Posting #**: 28395
**Department**:Women's Health Concerns Clinic
**Employee Type**:Temporary, Full Time
**If Temporary, Number of Weeks**:40
**Union**:OPSEU
**Openings Remaining**:1

**Schedule**:
**Work Days**: Monday to Friday
**Time of Day**: Days
**Shift**: 7.5 hour
**This position may be scheduled at any of the following sites**: West 5th Campus (Hamilton Mountain)

**Application Dates**:
**Opening Date**: 20/06/24
**Closing Date**: 27/06/24 Applications must be received online by 12:00 midnight on the Closing Date

**Position Description**:
Temporary assignment - approximately 40 weeks

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This Mental Health Worker will be a part of a multidisciplinary team of mental health clinicians in the Women’s Health Concerns Clinic. The primary responsibility of the Mental Health Worker will be to provide support and/or psychotherapy to individuals seeking care; primary functions include: assessment, supportive counselling; brief psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioural therapy); care planning, including facilitating referrals to tertiary care programs when needed); provide psychoeducation; system navigation; contribute to program and system development, evaluation and support the WHCC services as needed.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Degree in nursing, social work, occupational therapy or psychology
- current registration in good standing with the College of Psychotherapists required
- Registration with a regulated healthcare College, required.
- Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in a mental health and/or addictions healthcare setting or practice
- Current First Aid/CPR certification
- Knowledgeable of the history and effects of systemic racism on indigenous peoples and their ability to access mental health and addictions supports.
- Demonstrated knowledge and practiced skills in intake assessment, care planning, supportive counselling, and system navigation in mental illness and/or addictions for adults.
- Demonstrated knowledge and practiced skills in conducting a risk assessment, intervening when required and providing necessary supports.
- Demonstrated knowledge and practiced skills in cognitive-behavioural therapy.
- Experience providing culturally-informed care to Indigenous clients
- Current and demonstrated knowledge of mental health illnesses and/or addictions symptoms, required.
- Current and demonstrated knowledge of motivation interview techniques and/or interventions, highly recommended.
- Demonstrates superior knowledge in engaging with patients and/or families who may be reluctant to seek help and establish rapport in various scenarios.
- Demonstrated educational/presentation, facilitation and networking skills.
- Understanding of basic use of psychotropic medications.
- Ability to work collaboratively and in partnership with an interdisciplinary team and other agencies/organizations in the community.
- Ability to ensure continuity of care between services and development of coordinated care plans to promote community integration for service users.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrates a strong recovery-oriented, client-focused philosophy in all interactions.
- Demonstrated ability in conflict resolution.
- Current and demonstrated knowledge of Mental Health Act, Healthcare Consent Act, Substitute Decisions Act, and Privacy Legislation.
- Maintains own competency in accordance with relevant professional standards.
- Demonstrates and role models an awareness of and commitment to personal and professional development
- Maintains membership in professional organizations as related to area of expertise and knowledge.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Assist with review and triage referrals,
- Requires extensive knowledge of St. Joe's MHAP services, as well as community resources.
- Build effective internal partnerships to support care planning, care transitions, and support SJHH system development.
- Provide supportive counselling with a focus on validation and empathy using a strengths-based framework;
- Assesses for aspects of RISK and intervenes as appropriate. Provides secondary support to crisis intervention services, as appropriate. Identifies and intervenes with high-risk social situations such as intimate partner violence, child abuse/neglect, elder abuse/neglect, financial abuse, and others as appropriate utilizing best practice social work guidelines.
- Identifies on a case-by-case basis the educational and resource needs of clients, families and service providers and provides in the most appropriate format. Provides support, system navigation and psychoeducational information to families, as required.
- Provide brief courses of psychotherapy (must have experience with CBT and solution-focused therapy);
- Documents all findings and interventions in a clear and concise manner in the client’s clinical record. Maintains records and statistics as required by the program, and St. Joseph's Healthcare.
- Assume responsibility for maintaining a level of knowled

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