Case Worker - Toronto, Canada - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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Toronto, Canada

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Description

Job Number: 919930

Category:
Allied Health Professionals

Positions Available: 2

Years Experience Required: 1 year

Location:
Toronto, Ontario

Posted Date:
May 19, 2023

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Case Worker (x2) (Child & Youth Worker/Counsellor)

Concurrent Youth Unit

Child, Youth & Family Services

Child, Youth & Emerging Adult Program

As part of the Child, Youth & Emerging Adult Program (CYEAP), Child, Youth and Family Services (CYFS) provides care and treatment to children and youth between the ages of 6 and 24.

Clients and their families served by CYFS are offered specialized services and customized care across an inpatient, day treatment, and outpatient continuum of care.

These services are closely aligned with our Research Centres including the McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health and the Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression.

Position Description

Your role will include supporting evidence based models of care and programming, such as Motivational Interviewing (MI) Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

The role will be familiar with and supportive CAMH policies and processes. The supervision and support of clients will include classroom assistance. Your skills include the ability to make behavioral observations, mental status and risk assessments, and understand stages of development.

In your role, you will provide quality clinical documentation, engage in effective communication, and promote positive working relationships with other team members.

You will have knowledge of crisis prevention and intervention, mental health and addiction issues, trauma-informed care, recovery, and family-informed care.

As a member of an inter-professional treatment team, you will work collaboratively and contribute discipline specific knowledge, skills and services to the team.

You will contribute to activities such as unit/program development, and will deliver services and programming in a manner that is safe, support student and volunteer placements, and you will support the program's evaluation and research activities.

You will value and engage in self-reflection and continuous learning.

Your role will include support to clients in transition to other services and you will liaise with other services at CAMH and with community agencies, as required, to coordinate care for clients.

You will sustain positive working relationships with internal and external partners. Supervision of Child and Youth professional students is expected. You will support a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, and complies with all applicable and regulatory requirements. This position involves shift rotation, and this position is located at 80 Workman Way at the Queen Street Site.

Qualifications
All applicants offered and accepting employment must complete a Vulnerable Sector Police Records Check. The offer of employment will be conditional upon receipt of the satisfactory Vulnerable Sector Police Records Check.

Please Note:
These two part-time, permanent positions are part of the OPSEU bargaining unit.

Salary Range:
$ $34.64 per hour

CAMH is a Tobacco-Free Organization.

CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto and is a teaching hospital and research institute. As a CAMH employee, you will be expected to actively support CAMH's teaching and research activities, in addition to supporting the clinical work of the hospital.

At CAMH, we strive to be an equitable and inclusive employer. Our commitment to equity is grounded in an institution-wide commitment to achieving a working, teaching, and learning environment that is free of discrimination and harassment.
**We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please inform us if you require accommodations during the interview process.