Community Mental Health Worker

**Requisition ID**: 388528

**Position Number**: 480-715701076C565-13

**Posting End Date**:September 25, 2025

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

**Site**:_ _Mental Health - Portage la Prairie

**Union**: MGEU

**Department/Unit**: Mental Health Program

**Work Location**:Mental Health - Portage la Prairie

**City**: Portage la Prairie

**Hiring Status**: Permanent

**FTE**: 1.0

**Employment arrangement**:In Person

**Daily hours worked**: 7.75

**Anticipated shift**: Days

**Annual base hours**:2015

**Anticipated Start Date**:Top be determined

**Salary**:As per MGEU Prof Tech 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 Adult program portfolio will work in an integrated team approach, within a framework of mental health clinical practice, including consultation, assessment, and therapeutic interventions/treatment. The CMHW - Adult 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 - Adult, will work collaboratively with primary health care providers, specialists, families, and services/agencies involved with the adult as required in supporting individuals in their personal recovery where they live, learn, work and socialize.

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**:

- Minimum two (2) years’ experience providing evidence-based therapy to adults. 3-5 years preferred.
- Minimum of two (2) years supervised counselling experience.
- Experience and training in trauma informed care, Brief Treatment models, CBT, DBT, etc.
- 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 Sciences (e.g. BSW, BScMH, BScPN, BN, RPN). Other relevant educational qualifications and experience may be considered.
- Master’s degree an asset - qualified as a Psychiatric Nurse, Occupational Therapist (MOT), Clinical Social Worker (MSW), Family Therapist (MFT), Masters of Counselling Psychology (MACP), or equivalent.
- Training and demonstrated skill in the following areas: clinical assessment and case formulation, psychotropic medications, psychopathology, individual/group/family/systems intervention.

**Certification/Licensure/Registration**:

- Active license and registration to practice as required by professional association and provincial legislation.
- Certificate in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST).

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Knowledge and understanding of all aspects of mental health service.
- Advanced mental health psychosocial assessment skills and knowledge of appropriate evidence informed therapeutic co