Clinical Resource Worker - Guelph, Canada - St. Joseph's

St. Joseph's

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Guelph, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Clinical Resource Worker

Temporary Full-Time (Approx. 18 Months), Non-Union

#T/24-50

The Organization:

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St. Joseph's Health Centre Guelph (SJHCG) is a faith-based organization that is part of St. Joseph's Health System.

We live by our CARE values:
Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence, and embed person
- and family-centred care throughout our 240 long-term care beds, 106 hospital beds, and a variety of outpatient and community support services. Our staff complement of approximately 700 employees is committed to contributing to a healthy, safe, and respectful environment. If you are a passionate and highly motivated individual, looking to help us advance in our mission, vision and values, we look forward to you joining our team

The Job Summary:

Provide mental health assessment, consultation, and intervention services for older adults with frailty, mental health and/or dementia-related issues.

Provide support, education, system navigation and service awareness for care partners and providers working with active or recently discharged participants.

Development, implementation and assessment of biopsychosocial therapeutic recreational programs for individuals with mental health and/or dementia-related issues and frailty. Provides on-site guidance and support to daily operations within daily program setting. Triage risk scenarios and provide support and/or advocacy for safe service delivery.

Key Accountabilities & Success Criteria:

Provide assessment and consultative services for individuals and families, which contribute to an increased understanding of dementia, psychological distress, psychiatric symptoms, and frailty and recommend intervention strategies.
To assist with intake procedures with referred individuals.
Provide comprehensive geriatric health assessments of individuals and families.
Provide education and support to navigate internal and external services and initiate referrals as needed.
Provide education to individuals, families, service providers and the broader community regarding dementia, frailty and mental health issues, and create strategy summaries to support individuals with a dementia, frailty and/ or mental health issue.
Act as a liaison/advocate for existing participants.
Participate in interdisciplinary program planning and client review.
Coordinate care conferences with relevant community services, resources, and network members in the provision of treatment and support to the fullest extent possible.
Lead specific biopsychosocial recreation programs as needed.
Assist with participant activities of daily living as required.
Clinical supervision and evaluation of university and college placement students.
Complies with organizational health and safety policies and processes and supports learning of safety measures to new staff and satellite teams.
Support CSS team in development of PIECES strategy summaries to ensure safe group environment and complete RL and Near misses as needed.
Attends and participates in appropriate safety training or education updates (i.e. hand hygiene, emergency code reviews).
Identifies unsafe conditions or practices and takes appropriate action to address them including reporting or removing hazards
Manage a client caseload including documentation and case management function.
Recommend needed revisions to policies and procedures guiding the team's function and provision of service as needed.
Participate in quality improvement and evaluation activities.
Participate in recruitment, onboarding, and evaluations as required.
Work collaboratively with other community services and teams to ensure coordinated and seamless transitions to service delivery.
Contributes to a transparent culture of client and staff safety by adhering to and abiding by patient and staff safety policies and procedures set by SJHC.
Promotes an environment that encourages and supports change using change leadership theory.

Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree in a field of Health or Social Sciences with an emphasis in Gerontology, Recreation Therapy, Human Kinetics or Kinesiology
Previous work experience in the community support sector
Post graduate certification in Gerontology, Dementia Care, Addictions and/ or Mental Health, Current CPR and First Aid Certificate.
Training in P.I.E.C.E.S.TM, Gentle Persuasive Approach, U-First, Dementiability.

Skills & Abilities:

Welldeveloped assessment and intervention skills
Collaborative leadership approach including ability to motivate, coach and provide capacity building amongst team members.
Strong communication, interpersonal and problemsolving skills.
Demonstrated effectiveness as a team member through collaboration, respect and effective communication skills in interacting with older adults, family members and other members of interprofessional care teams including community, primary care and long term care home team me