Community Mental Health Worker
- Trail, BC, Canada
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Original job description
Interior Health and our partner agencies provide a range of mental health and substance use services for all ages. We strive to ensure that our services are welcoming of all peoples, gender identities, cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a compassionate, resourceful, and client-centered professional who thrives in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment. The ideal candidate has experience supporting individuals with severe and persistent mental health challenges and/or substance use disorders and understands the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation and harm reduction. The successful applicant is someone adept at building trusting relationships with clients, promoting self-determination, and empowering individuals to engage in meaningful recovery goals across life domains such as housing, wellness, education, employment, and social connection.
This candidate is someone who can confidently deliver life skills coaching, basic case management, supportive counseling, and advocacy, while also navigating and connecting clients with a range of community resources. The successful candidate must be able to work independently in diverse community settings, communicate effectively across service sectors, and participate actively in case planning and interdisciplinary team discussions. Strong documentation skills, a non-judgmental attitude, and a commitment to trauma-informed, recovery-oriented practice are essential qualities for success in this role.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and an attractive remuneration package
- Career Growth
- Employer paid training/education
- Employer paid vacation (per collective agreement)
- Employer paid insurance premiums
- Extended Health & Dental coverage
- Contribution to Municipal Pension Plan
- Balanced lifestyle
The Community Mental Health Worker's purpose is to ensure that persons with severe and persistent mental health problems and/or substance use disorders have access to timely, responsive, evidence based psychosocial rehabilitation across the continuum of available services. As a Community Mental Health Worker you will provide basic care management as well as establish rehabilitation objectives and plans for assigned client populations. You will perform a variety of life skills, advocacy, supportive counseling, psychosocial rehabilitation planning, and general support duties involving clients who are living in their own housing.
Scheduling Information
Shift types are days and shift times are from 08:00 to 16:30 hours.
About Kiro Wellness Centre
Offers a range of mental health and substance use services to support individuals and families in the Interior Health region. Services are provided in a variety of settings including community clinics, hospitals, residential settings, and on an outreach basis.
How will you create an impact?
Joining our IH team will allow you to challenge yourself professionally while enjoying all the personal pursuits available to you within this fantastic community.
Reasons to Apply at Interior Health... What we can do for you
We offer a work environment conducive to growth and development of strong clinical skills and a work environment that supports and promotes psychological health & safety for all. We offer the opportunity to have a balanced lifestyle that allows you to maintain the quality of life you desire.
Come live, work and play where others only vacation. Make a difference. Love your work!
More about this job
Responsibilities
Provide basic care management and develop rehabilitation objectives and plans for clients with severe and persistent mental health challenges and/or substance use disorders. Deliver life skills coaching, advocacy, supportive counseling, psychosocial rehabilitation planning, and general support while connecting clients with community resources.
Requirements
The ideal candidate has experience supporting people with severe and persistent mental health challenges and/or substance use disorders, and understands psychosocial rehabilitation and harm reduction. They should be compassionate, client-centered, able to work independently and collaboratively, and have strong communication and documentation skills with a commitment to trauma-informed, recovery-oriented practice.
Skills
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Harm Reduction
- Relationship Building
- Life Skills Coaching
- Basic Case Management
- Supportive Counseling
- Advocacy
- Community Resource Navigation
- Client-Centered Care
- Trauma-Informed Practice
- Recovery-Oriented Practice
- Documentation
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Case Planning
- Communication
- Independent Community-Based Work
Benefits
- Employer-Paid Training And Education
- Employer-Paid Vacation
- Employer-Paid Insurance Premiums
- Extended Health And Dental Coverage
- Municipal Pension Plan
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Categories
- Healthcare
- Social Services
Keywords
- Community Mental Health
- Mental Health
- Substance Use Disorders
- Psychosocial Rehabilitation
- Harm Reduction
- Recovery-Oriented Practice
- Trauma-Informed Practice
- Life Skills Coaching
- Case Management
- Supportive Counseling
- Advocacy
- Rehabilitation Planning
- Client-Centered Care
- Self-Determination
- Community Resources
- Interdisciplinary Team
- Case Planning
- Documentation
- Outreach
- Community-Based Services