Community Mental Health Worker

**Requisition ID**: 379072

**Position Number**: 480-715701076C565-11

**Posting End Date**:April 15, 2025

**Employer**:**Southern Health-Santé Sud

**Site**:_ _Mental Health Program

**Union**:MGEU

**Department/Unit**: Mental Health & Addictions

**Work Location**:Mental Health - Steinbach or Winkler

**City**: Steinbach or Winkler

**Hiring Status**: Temporary

**FTE**: 1.0

**Employment arrangement**:In Person

**Daily hours worked**: 7.75

**Anticipated shift**: Days

**Annual base hours**:2015

**Anticipated Start Date - End Date**: 04/21/2025 - Indefinite

**Reason for Term**:_ _Other Leave

**Salary**: As per Collective Agreement

Find your rewarding career in a vibrant and diverse community within Southern Health-Santé Sud. Our organization is privileged to provide care for people at every point in their lives.

Partnering with our communities, we provide safe, accessible and sustainable people-centered health care. We are proud to work in collaboration with all our partners within and throughout our diverse region: seven First Nations Communities, Francophone, Métis, Mennonite and Hutterite communities as well as a growing number of immigrants from all over the world.

Be part of the **Southern Health-Santé Sud team, who is rooted in what matters most.**Join**a region that offers a lifestyle like no other - a safe, peaceful, beautiful, fulfilling life for you and your family.

**Position Overview**:
Services are based on the principles of recovery, empowerment, self-determination and responsibility and are part of a continuum of mental health services. Clinicians operate within a collaborative care structure and provide time-limited, goal-oriented, change-focused interventions and/or consultations that are based on informed consent, voluntary participation and within individual capacity. The CMHW requires a diverse and comprehensive knowledge base about trauma informed psychiatric care as well as other adopted mental health therapies and the ability possess and integrate into practice crisis management and suicide intervention skills. The CMHW exercises the appropriate level of initiative and independent judgment in determining work priorities, work methods to be employed and action to be taken on unusual matters.

The CMHW as part of the Intensive Case Management (ICM) Mental Health program offers recovery orientated, community-based rehabilitation, and supports to individuals living with a psychotic disorder accompanied by or experiencing a severe and persistent functional impairment that limits major life activities in one or more areas including daily living, employment, education, and/or leisure. The CMHW - ICM clinician will provide Intensive case management services to individuals through community-based, person-centered and strengths-based supports, that promote recovery, stabilization and independent living. Supports include crisis intervention, functional assessment, identification of service plan goals and objectives, ongoing service planning/intervention, skill development, relapse prevention, linkage to services, evaluation of measurable outcomes related to individual progress, case coordination and consultation with other service providers, and transfer of service, where appropriate. The CMHW as part of the Transition program will provide short term support to individuals and families who require support navigating and accessing alternate services, where the individual is not connected to other resources and appears to require assistance in identifying/connecting to other resources.

Services enable individuals to regain hope, self-determination and empowerment, identify and strengthen skills and abilities, achievement of personal goals, increase personal supports and community integration, and become active partners in their recovery journey to improve the quality of all aspects of life including social, occupational, educational, residential, intellectual, spiritual and financial.

The Community Mental Health Worker works to the full scope of practice and engages in ongoing education and maintains competency congruent with Southern Health-Santé Sud policies, professional standards of practice, the appropriate college and code of ethics and the Regulated Health Professions Act. The position functions in a manner that is consistent with the mission, vision and values; and the policies of Southern Health-Santé Sud.

**Experience**:

- ICM - Demonstrated experience and/or significant knowledge of working with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
- Minimum of two (2) years supervised counselling experience.
- Experience in providing mental health services for adults or children and adolescents or adults with serious mental illnesses, or senior’s mental health.
- Experience in completing psychosocial assessments and mental status examinations.

**Education (Degree/Diploma/Certificate)**:

- Graduate of an accredited post-secondary education in Health-Related Social Sci