Mental Health Navigator

**Mental Health Navigator - North Bay, ON**:
CBI Health is Canada’s leading community healthcare provider, and our passionate team is at the heart of what we do. Every day, our 13,000 staff make a meaningful difference in our clients’ lives as we live the core values that define us: heart, respect, reliability, teamwork and innovation. Along with mentoring and continuous learning opportunities to help advance your career, we are building a culture of inspiration, recognition and celebration for the meaningful work our team does every day, all across the country. Join the new CBI Health and find where your better begins.

**About this opportunity**

Are you an experienced mental health practitioner with strong clinical skills in the areas of crisis intervention and support for post-secondary students? CBI Workplace Solutions is seeking a Registered Psychotherapist, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or Registered Nurse for placement at Canadore College in North Bay. Student Success Services includes a multi-disciplinary team that supports Student Success and Retention and fosters a healthy environment for students to engage and thrive in their learning and development. The Mental Health Navigator works closely with the team to support students’ mental health and wellness to assure the provision of holistic support to students. The position requires a service-focused professional who treats others with respect, values their time, strives for personal best and collaborates to improve services experience for all.

**Take an inside look at what you’ll do each day**
- Maintain a student-focused approach to success wherein students are engaged as partners in learning and all stakeholders are viewed as customers. Engage community partners in supporting student success
- Manage caseload/workload for the provision of direct mental health and learning supports to students including but not limited to:

- Crisis intervention for students exhibiting significant levels of distress
- Needs assessment of students with non-urgent, self-identified mental health issues/concerns
- Solution-focused brief interventions that provide coping strategies and resiliency building based upon the student’s own strengths
- Be responsible for working effectively and collaboratively with a team of learning and mental health professionals to provide concurrent support to allow students to thrive
- Make appropriate and effective use of self in clinical setting
- Prepare and deliver presentations at conferences and workshops
- Participate in staff meetings, educational conferences and workshops
- Collaborate in the development of guidance and counselling programs
- Facilitate psycho-educational session and supervise peer support programs
- Consult with faculty, parents and community resource partners

**What you need to be successful**
- At least 3 years of clinical experience in counselling adolescents and adults with disabilities
- An MA, MSW, BScN, MScOT, or MEd in a related discipline or equivalent
- Registration in good standing with the appropriate College
- Familiarity with psycho-educational assessments/cognitive and personality assessments is an asset
- Knowledge of the mental health system and community resources as well as familiarity with a variety of mental health disabilities to ensure appropriate referrals and service coordination
- Excellent empathic, advising and counselling skills to counsel, mediate and advocate for students in distress
- Experience delivering short-term clinical interventions catered to the needs of a post-secondary population
- Clinical knowledge of suicide/self-harm, grief/loss, depression, anxiety and addictions
- The ability to plan and facilitate workshops and speak to large groups of people
- An enthusiasm for collaborating and communicating with an interdisciplinary team
- Knowledge of Indigenous cultures, including attention to mental health and wellness, with a proven ability to engage and retain Indigenous learners is an asset
- Excellent oral and written communication skills required to write support letters and other documents
- A high level of multi-tasking required and excellent organizational ability to manage competing priorities under time restraints

**What CBI Health offers you**
- Continuous learning and skills development, including management opportunities
- Training and mentoring from a national network of experts
- Competitive compensation with comprehensive benefits and rewards package, including group health, dental and vision benefits, paid 100% by the employer
- Excellent administrative support, so you can focus on your patients

**About Us**

For millions of Canadians, CBI Health is where better begins. We are Canada’s leading community healthcare provider, reliably delivering innovative rehabilitation and home care programs that help our clients achieve their health goals. With 250+ locations and supporting more than 800 communities, people are at the heart of wh