Mental Health Counsellor

The Central Brampton Family Health Team (CBFHT) an inter-professional primary care (IPC) dedicated to enhancing healthcare accessibility capacity through a collaborative, team-based approach. Our primary objective is to address the health needs of the community we serve, with a particular emphasis on mental health, senior wellness, diabetes management, and various prevention programs.

**CBFHT is currently recruiting for a 1 Year Maternity Contract Full-time Social Worker/Mental Health Counsellor**

**Skills and Responsibilities**:

- Perform client Psychosocial Assessments, Treatment, Psycho-education and Evaluation
- Assess, formulate and provide collaborative care plans with clients.
- Experience with managing intake assessments and provides counseling services to meet individual, family, and young-adult needs to positively impact the health of patients and families.
- Ability to communicate care plans and care coordination with referring physicians and the inter-professional health team.
- Provide short term treatment, outcome evaluation and resource referrals where required.
- Demonstrate experience with providing individual, adult, couples, and family sessions virtually and in person.
- Responsible for making clinical decisions and exercising judgment to ensure the best possible care is provided within available resources.
- Preferred experience with, MBCT - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, MBSR - Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, DBT - Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
- Demonstrate experience to provide individual and groups sessions for emotional regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance.
- Preferred experience with ERP Therapy - Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy
- Knowledgeable of the community and the resources available, especially in the areas of crisis services, Mental Health, and Long-Term Care;
- To build a strong relationship with CBFHT Mental Health Team members.
- Collaborate with other Interdisciplinary Health Professionals, assess, formulate, implement and discuss appropriate individualized care coordination and care plans based on best practices.
- To provide consults of assessment and intervention with referring physicians and other team clinicians within a specified timeframe.
- Effectively support patients to manage their clinical plans including healthy choices, healthy lifestyles, appointments, medication as necessary, and self-management of care.
- Assist patients and providers to navigate the health and community service systems to identify and connect them with appropriate services and supports.
- Participate in team building, program development, and improvement activities.
- Comply with established personnel policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines for operation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-directed and highly motivated
- Strong organization and time management skills with demonstrated flexibility
- Ability to be open, non-judgmental and client-centered
- Experience in the use of EMR (Oscar Preferred)
- Proficiency in the use of computer hardware and software, particularly in Microsoft word, excel, outlook and electronic medical records
- Must have access to reliable transportation as travel between sites is required maybe required
- Work in compliance with Health Safety laws adhering to safe work practices and procedures established by the CBFHT

**Education/Specific Job Requirements**:

- Master’s Degree in Social Work, Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or another related Graduate Degree
- Registration with the Ontario College of Social Worker and Social Service Workers and/or registration with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
- Proof of own professional liability insurance
- Fluent in other language(s) (particularly in Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese, Farsi, Arabic, etc) would be an asset.

**Experience**:

- Minimum of three years’ experience in a community and/or Primary Health care setting and able to demonstrate effective delivery of quality care virtually and, or in person.
- Experience in creating new program ideas from implementation to monitoring and evaluation.

**We thank all applicants for expressing interest in this position; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary, Contract

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Education**:

- Master's Degree (required)

Work Location: In person