Child and Youth Worker

**OVERVIEW**

Bring your caring heart to the heart of the east at Michael Garron Hospital

Michael Garron Hospital (MGH) is an award-winning community teaching hospital and has been providing care since 1929. We proudly serve more than 400,000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. MGH is recognized as a leader in workplace wellness. We commit to living our values of Compassion, Respect, Integrity, Inclusion and Courage in many ways, including offering a quality work environment focused on learningand development. MGH invests in people to meet their professional goals and to reach their personal best.

We opened our new Ken and Marilyn Thomson Patient Care Centre in early 2023 providing eight floors of modern and bright care spaces and will continue to transform our campus in the coming years.

Our Child and Youth Mental Health Program provides child and youth workers a unique opportunity to grow their career and leadership experience. Here staff have the opportunity to improve the mental health of children and youth to 18 years of age by providing specialized youth and family-centred care. We focus on the whole person, to support youth and families to cope, develop, grow, thrive and transform, leveraging strengths of the family. This dynamic, community-oriented program has a team who are committed to learning and providing excellent client care. You will work with a diverse interprofessional team.

CYWs in the Outpatient Child & Youth Program are responsible for the provision of comprehensive child and youth behavioural counselling within an interdisciplinary team. Duties include assessment of children and youth and their families, treatment and disposition planning. Primarily, this role will focus on supporting the Day Treatment Program through supporting youth who experience school avoidance. This includes support to families and/or support networks in collaboration with the student/youth. They work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team in planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment care, case coordination, and transition plans in and out of day treatment service. The CYW provides group facilitation and health teaching to students in the day treatment program. The CYW will also be trained to provide services on the T7E Inpatient Child and Youth Mental Health Unit and the outpatient Building Bridges program offering support as needed, based on operational needs.

This role will be expected to work 8- and 12-hour shifts in other programs in the mental healthprogram during scheduled breaks in the Day Treatment Program.

The CYW may also work in other mental health services and programs, based on operational needs.

What to expect:
As a member of the Child and Youth Outpatient Mental Health team, you will grow your practice by:

- Working with the interdisciplinary team to provide behavioural counselling, support, assessment and safety plans for clients age 12 - 18, experiencing significant mental health challenges that interfere with their daily functioning and education who attend the day treatment program. This includes support to families and or support networks in collaboration with the client.
- Working in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team in planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment care, case coordination, and transition plans in and out of day treatment service.
- Providing group facilitation and health teaching to students in the day treatment program.
- Sharing knowledge and expertise with others, while advocating for and promoting health and well-being of clients.
- Working with the interdisciplinary team to proved comprehensive assessments, system navigation, resource planning, treatment and safety planning of children and youth presenting to the emergency department.
- Support the warm handover of patientstothe Child and Youth Inpatient Unit and facilitate transfer packages to other facilities as needed.
- Supporting intake tasks for the outpatient mental health program, including building bridges, urgent care clinic and other programs as assigned.

**EDUCATION**
- Child Youth Worker diploma required; Baccalaureate Degree in Child and Youth Work (preferred).
- Eligible for membership in the Ontario Association for Child and Youth Councillors.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- At least 1 year recent experience providing individual, group, and family supports in a mental health setting.
- At least 2 years of experience working in a child and youth mental health setting required.
- At least 1 year experience working with children and youth presenting with acute mental health needs considered a strong asset.
- Recent experience working in a day treatment setting an asset.
- Experience working with youth who are disengaged from school, an asset.
- Recent experience with serious mental illness and high-risk children and youth required.
- Demonstrated ability to assess children and youth in crisis.
- Experience with behavioural programming for children and