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About the Role
The Addiction & Mental Health Worker will perform duties and responsibilities consistent with providing a psychosocial environment to assist with the rehabilitation and community integration of clients in Youth Housing Programs.
Responsibilities
- Assist clients to develop and coordinate Individual Rehabilitation Plans (IRPs) and motivate/support them to work towards achievement of their goals
- Be primary worker for two to three clients, ensuring paperwork is complete, goals are being worked toward, and follow-up with the team
- Champion each client’s capacity for independent community living
- Assist clients to find and maintain suitable housing
- Facilitate and implement resident meetings, small groups and activities
- Professionally liaison with community workers and agencies regarding Shared Living programs, referrals, intakes, and waitlists
- Provide health teaching about mental illness and symptom management
- Crisis intervention and prevention
- Admission and discharge of clients
- Maintenance of the facility such as repairs, common areas, grounds, resident rooms etc.
- Assist and coach clients in the learning and management/achievement of activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, daily chores, budgeting, socialization
- Assist and teach meal planning, purchasing, preparation and other food related activities
- Advocate for and support clients in accessing community resources
- Medication monitoring, management, and education
- Make decisions with team concerning operations of the program and policies of the organization
- Documentation related to clients and financial documentation including the Common Client Record (CCR) each shift
- Ensure effective communication with Director, Manager, staff team, and external treatment teams concerning client’s progress
- Assist with orientation and job shadowing of new staff and relief
- Schedule relief as needed for support and coverage, inform Director and Manager
- Identify, promote resolution, and management of all emergency situations concerning clients, staff, and property
- Collect and document receipt and spending of grocery money
- Make decisions both independently and collaboratively
- Maintain a safe living environment for clients (follow the fire plan, conduct regular resident room checks, etc.)
Requirements
- Degree or Diploma in a Social Science field or related discipline
- Current, satisfactory Police Vulnerable Sector Check (PVSC)
- Valid G driver’s licence
- Access to a vehicle with adequate insurance to carry out job duties
- Demonstrated ability to attend work regularly
- First Aid & CPR
- 1 Year of work experience in mental health field
- Residential experience
- Knowledge of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, psychiatric medications, community resources, computerized documentation methods
- Health and Safety knowledge
- Training in crisis intervention and crisis resolution, including ASIST training program
- Demonstrated ability to work with individuals living with multiple challenges related to marginalization, including involvement with the criminal justice system, mental illness, addictions, substance use, complex health challenges, street-level sex work, poverty, homelessness, abuse and trauma
Skills
- Crisis intervention
- Crisis prevention
- Medication monitoring
- Medication management
- Medication education
- Health teaching
- Budgeting
- Socialization
- Meal planning
- Food purchasing
- Food preparation
- Advocacy
- Communication
- Documentation
- Teamwork
- Decision making
- Problem solving
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Computerized documentation methods
Location
- London, Ontario (London Zone)
Work Type
- Part-Time
- Contract
- Rotating days, afternoons, evenings and weekends
Experience Level
- 1 Year of work experience in mental health field
Education Level
- Degree or Diploma in a Social Science field or related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- Starting rate: $27.14 per hour (Level 1 – Direct Service)
- Wage differential: $30.01 per hour for Level 1 – Direct Service, Regulated
- Grid progression up to Level 8 ($34.41 per hour for non-regulated, and $37.26 per hour for regulated)
- Premiums of $2.00 per hour for eligible Evening/Night (8:00pm – 7:00am) and Weekend Shifts
Benefits
- 9% in lieu of benefits
- Immediately eligible for optional enrolment in the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
About the Company
- Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome and encourage applications from all members of our community including persons of any gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, persons with disabilities, Indigenous persons, and members of our visible minorities.
- If you require accommodations related to a disability at any point during the recruitment process, please contact Human.Resources@cmhatv.ca