Position Overview

The Community Mental Health Worker (CMHW) is a regulated health provider who provides mental health services to residents of Southern Health-Santé Sud (SH-SS). As a member of an interdisciplinary team, the incumbent provides a broad range of mental health services to clients and their families that are based on principles of recovery, empowerment, and self-determination. Services are evidence-based, time-limited, goal-oriented, change-focused interventions, therapies, and/or consultations that are based on informed consent, voluntary participation and within individual capacity. The CMHW requires a comprehensive knowledge base about trauma informed psychiatric care, evidence-based therapies and the ability to possess and integrate into practice crisis management and suicide intervention skills.

Shared Care Mental Health & Addictions Counsellor specific role Working collaboratively with, and guided by the principles of My Health Teams, the Share...