SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY. ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. FULFILL YOUR PURPOSE.

Joining the Canadian Mental Health Association – Peel Dufferin Branch means you’ll be part of something meaningful. For starters, we’re honored to have received the Canadian Non-Profit Employer of Choice Award for our efforts to help people live better. Providing support and services to those who live with mental illness and addictions, we’re committed to increasing awareness and addressing the stigma surrounding mental health. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to create a diverse organization that represents the communities we serve – and the people we help.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Provide support services for a caseload of clients as their primary worker within the team
• Establish a supportive, ongoing relationship with clients and their support systems
• Develop a Crisis Plan with each client and their supports to support and maintain client wellness
• Establish and monitor a recovery plan based on clients’ goals
• Provide on-going support, life skills coaching, pre-employment coaching and appropriate referrals to enable clients to achieve their goals
• Monitor clients’ mental health and initiate intervention to promote wellness
• Provide education on mental health and wellness to clients and their families and other supports.
• Participate in daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning review meetings and to provide the addictions perspective
• Take a leadership role to ensure the provision of substance use interventions for clients including motivational counseling, harm reduction, and abstinence using the stages of change model
• Develop a trusting relationship with clients so that they may more freely discuss substance use and its effect on mental and physical health and daily functioning. May participate in setting treatment goals and plans with clients to reduce or abstain from substance use and to learn replacement behaviors
• Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify clients and establish linkage to outpatient treatment, self-help programs, outpatient services, and residential facilities
• Provide practical help, supports and advocacy to help clients obtain the necessities of daily living including medical and dental health care, legal and advocacy services, financial support, supported housing, money-management services and transportation
  This posting description indicates the key responsibilities and core functions of the position. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities.