Adult Mental Health

**Position: Adult Mental Health & Wellness Lead**

**Background**:
Incorporated in 2017, the Matawa Health Cooperative (MHC) is a Matawa First Nation owned and controlled health co-operative that provides health care services to enhance existing health services to achieve long-term health and well-being for all members within the nine (9) Matawa First Nations. It is overseen by a Board of Directors and is a member of the Health Care Co
- operatives Federation of Canada. The MHC is community-driven with available services being tailored to individual community's needs. It is the first of its kind in Canada.

The MHC works to incorporate traditional healing and medicines in addressing the wholistic health needs of the Matawa First Nations focusing on the priorities of mental health and addictions, diabetes, and chronic diseases.

**Position Summary**:
The MHC Adult Mental Health & Wellness Lead will oversee our Adult Mental Health Team/Staff who service and provide mental health and wellness supports to our adult populations from the communities served by Matawa. They will oversee preventative mental health and wellness-based service delivery and programming from a wholistic perspective; seeking to address all areas of wellness including: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Service delivery must also take into strong consideration our Indigenous culture and traditional values.

**Specific Duties Include**:
**Supervision & Support of Adult Mental Health Team Staff**:

- Acts as a role model; provides strong leadership and guidance to Adult Mental Health Team/Staff; Ability to build positive rapport and healthy working relationships with superiors, colleagues, and staff while also demonstrating the ability to respectfully give constructive criticism in a way that encourages and promotes growth and skill development amongst staff;
- Supervises and directs the activities of Adult Mental Health Team. Works with team members to ensure they are being given adequate support, supervision, and direction while also ensuring necessary performance evaluations are being completed in a timely fashion;
- Assists Adult Mental Health Team/Staff with coordination, planning, and scheduling of travel and necessary arrangements;
- Oversees scheduling and time off requests (e.g., overtime, lieu time, annual/vacation leave, medical/sick leave, etc.) of Adult Mental Health Team/Staff to ensure consistency, continuity of care, and ongoing maintenance of day-to-day operations and services;
**Program Management & Development**:

- Participates in the development policies and procedures and work instructions for Adult Mental Health Team;
- Seeks input and feedback from our Matawa communities, Health Directors, and leadership, as well as MHC Adult Mental Health Team/Staff to ensure mental health services are responsive to the unique needs and requests of each Matawa community;
- Works in collaboration with MHC Director of Mental Health, Child & Youth Mental Health Team, and the EMR/Privacy Coordinator to ensure and maintain that all documentation, reporting, and forms are being created, collected, and stored in a way that respects and honours client confidentiality and ethics;
- Works collaboratively with MHC Director of Mental Health and Child & Youth Mental Health Team to ensure ongoing program evaluation of youth mental health services is taking place. Seeks input and feedback in order to ensure we are consistently improving the quality of our youth services;
- Gives input and assists MHC Director of Mental Health with proposal development and submissions that will benefit and support youth services based on areas of need;
- Works with MHC Director of Mental Health & Child & Youth Mental Health Team to ensure necessary data and statistics are being inputted and collected as required;
- Ensures service delivery is being delivered in compliance with regulations, policies, and procedures. Ensures they remain current on relevant mental health regulations, laws, policies, and standards which may impact service delivery. Ensures that Adult Mental Health Team is aware of necessary updates impacting service delivery and compliant;
- Works with the Director of Mental Health Services (and designated Board Members) in recruiting and hiring qualified mental health staff. Recruits, screens and interviews, conducts reference checks, and facilitates orientation/training for new team members;
- Provides any necessary updates to MHC’s Executive Director, Director of Mental Health Services, Chiefs, and MHC Board Members as required/directed in a timely fashion. May be required to participate in Chiefs Meetings/MHC Board of Directors Meetings as requested;
- Schedules, coordinates, and chairs team meetings and supervision as required;
- Routinely oversees and assists with any relevant patient issues or concerns by offering supervisorial consultation as needed. Works collaboratively with Intake Worker as well as with Adult Mental Health Team to