Quu’asa Wellness Worker
- Port Alberni, BC, Canada
Competitive benefit package and salary based on qualifications and experience: salary range $56,000 - $71,000. · Full-time
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- Competitive benefit package and salary based on qualifications and experience: salary range $56,000 - $71,000.
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Posting language
- English
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Original job description
Responsibilities Include
- To provide direct support to individuals, families, and communities.
- To facilitate cultural learning, activities, and ceremonies that provides cultural healing and mental wellness.
- To facilitate family support networks and facilitate family connections.
- To be familiar with other healing resources and introducing (referring) clients to these resources.
- To work with other staff to respond to crisis and mobilize community strength in response.
- To maintain reports, forms, and all required documents on a timely basis.
- Must have knowledge of Nuu-chah-nulth cultural-healing practices.
- Front-line experience working with aboriginal people.
- Diploma or other training in a field related to counselling and recovery.
- Experience in programs to facilitate transformation from addiction.
- Awareness of western mental health approaches.
- Experience working in a First Nations environment or being a First Nations person will be considered an asset.
- Must have a car and valid driver’s licence.
- Be willing to adhere to the NTC Communicable Disease Prevention Plan.
- Provide acceptable references and criminal record check.
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Responsibilities
Provide culturally based support to individuals, families, and communities, including facilitating cultural learning, ceremonies, family connections, and mental wellness activities. Coordinate referrals and crisis responses with other staff, and maintain required reports and documentation.
Requirements
Preferred qualifications include knowledge of Nuu-chah-nulth cultural healing practices, front-line experience supporting Indigenous people, and training or a diploma related to counselling and recovery. Applicants should have addiction transformation program experience, awareness of Western mental health approaches, a car and valid driver’s licence, and willingness to follow the communicable disease prevention plan; First Nations experience or identity is an asset.
Skills
- Culturally Based Support
- Cultural Healing Practices
- Mental Wellness Support
- Individual and Family Support
- Cultural Learning and Ceremonies
- Family Support Networks
- Community Crisis Response
- Addiction Recovery Support
- Client Referrals
- Western Mental Health Approaches
- Documentation and Reporting
- First Nations Community Engagement
- Valid Driver’s Licence
Benefits
- Competitive Benefits Package
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Social Services
- Healthcare
Keywords
- Nuu-chah-nulth Cultural Healing
- Mental Health
- Mental Wellness
- Culturally Based Support
- First Nations
- Indigenous Communities
- Counselling
- Recovery
- Addiction Transformation
- Crisis Response
- Family Support Networks
- Cultural Learning
- Cultural Activities
- Ceremonies
- Client Referrals
- Western Mental Health Approaches
- Community Support
- Documentation
- Reporting
- Remote Community Travel
- Valid Driver’s Licence