Community Mental Health Specialist
3 weeks ago
Coast Mental Health is seeking a skilled Community Mental Health Worker to join our team. As a Community Mental Health Worker, you will be responsible for delivering housing and support services to enable clients to enter, maintain, and exit supported, independent living.
Key Responsibilities- Implement programs, including leisure activities, cooking, housekeeping, and maintenance tasks, by engaging clients in daily life skills activities.
- Provide community-based psycho-social rehabilitation services by identifying and supporting clients in accessing and developing links into community programs and services.
- Teach and model life skills and strategies necessary for self-care, independent living, and interaction with outside social agencies.
- Apply effective communication strategies, such as role modeling, to establish a collaborative rapport with clients.
- Provide support and information to help clients build self-esteem and develop decision-making skills through role modeling and other techniques.
- Assist clients in identifying and gaining access to formal and informal community supports, such as leisure, vocational, and educational services.
- Observe and record the physical and mental health status of clients and take necessary action.
- Advocate for and with clients to encourage them to maintain their rights and dignity.
- Work collaboratively with clients, peers, supervisors, other agencies, and relatives.
- Develop individualized life skills programs with clients, involving family, friends, and community resources, as appropriate.
- Ensure all requirements of the QWIK process and administrative tasks are completed within allocated timeframes.
- Use formal and informal assessment practices, such as interviews, to develop individual plans identifying clients' areas of interest and need.
- Distribute medications safely in accordance with medication policies and procedures.
- Ensure the implementation of program maintenance, housekeeping, and cooking tasks.
- Report and address health and safety issues/concerns as they arise.
- Perform administrative tasks, as assigned.
- Maintain records as required.
- Diploma in Community Social Service or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Recent, related experience of two years.
- Ability to provide/obtain the following upon hire: Certificates in First Aid + CPR, WHMIS, and FoodSafe; Ministry of Justice Criminal Record Clearance; TB Clearance; Immunization Records.
Coast Mental Health is one of the largest mental health non-profit societies in Canada, operating a large array of innovative housing and community-based rehabilitation services for people with a mental illness living in and around Vancouver.
We foster a client-driven, recovery-oriented environment that promotes restoring health, personal growth, and a return to society for individuals with a mental illness through advocacy and providing direct programs and services.
Why Coast- We believe in the person, not the disease.
- We operate client-centered care under the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation.
- There is a variety of work within a particular position and within the organization.
- We strive to be the best that we can be.
- We hold Exemplary Status accreditation through Accreditation Canada.
- We have won numerous awards for our innovative programming.
- We care about our employees and believe in living our values and culture throughout the organization.
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