Your Opportunity:
An exciting opportunity exists to be part of the changing landscape of addiction and mental health services in the North Zone. Access Addiction & Mental Health (AAMH) will be a single point of contact for AHS Addiction & Mental Health (AMH) services in northern Alberta and will support Albertans who are looking to access services and programs, as well as provide system navigation support and general service information. As a member of the AAMH Intake Team, you will be responding to callers and conducting the tele-triage of addiction and mental health calls. Dependent on the nature of the call, you may be required to conduct a thorough screening and intake assessment to determine appropriate level of service required for the caller, enroll the caller into an AHS AMH service, advise of appropriate external community based services, provide immediate brief intervention and solution-focused support (if required), and appropriately triage to services where necessary. As part of a virtual team providing expanded intake services for North Zone community clinics in the days and evenings, you will be supporting clients across the age continuum, including clients in rural and remote areas. If you are ready to grow your career by expanding your intake skillsets and having an impact across the North Zone, this could be the opportunity you have been searching for. Candidates must reside in the North Zone or are prepared to work out of a North Zone office will only be selected. This position has transitioned to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you agree to and will become an employee of Recovery Alberta.
Description:

As the Mental Health Therapist, you will be required to use a variety of treatment modalities (individual, family, and group) to persons experiencing significant mental health difficulties. Working both independently and as a member of a collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will provide evidence informed and best practices in crisis intervention, assessment, consultation, referral, case management and treatment.

• Transition Company: Recovery Alberta
• Classification: Mental Health Therapist Provin
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Mental Health & Addictions
• Primary Location: Fort Saskatchewan Health Ctr
• Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

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