Youth Care Worker, Adolescent Intensive Services - Halifax, Canada - IWK Health Centre

IWK Health Centre

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Halifax, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Company :

IWK Health**:

Req ID:161199

Department/Program:
AIS Primary Mental Health 24/5, Mental Health & Addictions Program

Location:
Halifax

Type of Employment:
Permanent Hourly PT (50% FTE) x 1 position(s)

Start Date:
July 2023

Union Status:
NSGEU Hlthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit

Compensation:
$25.9095**:

- **$ /hour

Closing Date:
July 25, 2023 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region.

We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other's talent and celebrate our successes.

We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs.

We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

The Opportunity:

Adolescent Intensive Services is a mental health and addictions treatment setting that provides Day 24/5 and 24/7 treatment services to aolescents between the ages of 13 up to 19 years of age.

The Youth Care Worker participates as a member of an interdisciplinary team to assist in providing holistic and comprehensive treatment to meet the needs of adolescents who present with significant mental health challenges causing them to experience functional impairment at school, home and/or in the community.

Utilizing an attachment-based model (CONNECT), AIS works with clients and families to enhance adaptive living skills, address underpinning biopsychosocial issues and to assist in improving their function at home, in the community and at school.

Reporting to the Manager of Adolescent Intensive Services, and under the leadership and supervision of regulated health care providers, the Youth Care Worker collaborates with the inter-professional team members and partners to provide quality physical and psychosocial care.

The Youth Care Worker works to provide supervision and guidance regarding mental and physical health, daily living skills, community integration and advocacy for children and their families.

The Youth Care Worker builds constructive supportive relationships; ensuring client confidentiality and professional boundaries.

The Youth Care Worker, under the direction of an interdisciplinary mental health and addictions team, provides quality emotional and physical care to clients in a 24-hour inpatient and day program setting; assists with developing individualized treatment plans and is responsible to implement that plan; provides information, training, education and support to parents and caregivers; develops and implements program related activities; maintains documentation of client care; manages disruptive and aggressive behaviours using non-violent crisis intervention and de-escalation skills.

The Youth Care Worker could be reassigned to other Mental Health and Addictions units as operationally required.

Hours of Work:

Monday - Sunday (7.5 and/or 11.25 hour shifts); Weekends and Holidays; Day, evening, and night shifts

Your Qualifications:

Successful completion of an undergraduate degree in Child and Youth Care Studies or a Diploma from an accredited 2 year program in Child and Youth Care Studies.
Minimum one (1) year experience delivering direct mental health and addictions care to a child and/or youth population required; two (2) three (3) years preferred.
CYC Practitioner Certification preferred
Demonstrated ability to deliver evidencebased practice and to initiate treatment plans within the scope of practice required.
Understanding/experience in the CONNECT attachmentbased model preferred.
Working knowledge of mental health and/or concurrent disordered required.
Current certification in Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) required.
Successful completion of a Heart and Stroke Foundation Basic Life Support (BLS) program within the last 12 months required or successful completion of a BLS Renewal Challenge Certificate required.
Demonstrated commitment to familycentred care required.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, with a minimum of supervision required.
Demonstrated commitment to multidisciplinary collaboration required.
Proven decisionmaking ability, initiative, and demonstrated ability to handle stressful situations successfully required.
Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills required.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage time appropriately required.
Valid Class 5 Drivers License required.
Must be able to drive the Program van (clear driver's abstract).
Competencies in other languages an asset