Employment Support Worker - Peterborough, Canada - Canadian Mental Health Association - Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge

Canadian Mental Health Association - Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge

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Peterborough, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

About our Organization:

When you work at C.M.H.A.

Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge Branch, you are working for an agency that touches the lives of more than 15,000 people every year.

You can take pride in the fact that you are part of a team that is helping some of the most vulnerable people in our society lead more fulfilling lives.

You are also building a better community by contributing to C.M.H.A. H.K.P.R.'s efforts to combat the stigma associated with mental illness and raise awareness about the importance of mental health.

Diversity Statement:

Vaccination Policy:

C.M.H.A. H.K.P.R.

will require all new staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide proof of vaccination status before the first day of employment.

For this purpose, an individual is defined as fully immunized equal or greater than 14 days after receiving their second dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series or their first dose of a one-dose COVID-19 vaccine series that is approved by Health Canada.

Position Summary:

The Employment Support Worker in the At Work program provides individualized, intensive vocational supports and services to help clients with mental health concerns find and maintain competitive employment.

Staff must demonstrate the professional ability to build working relationships with employers and other relevant community partners to develop an employment network, decrease mental health stigma and provide education regarding psychological health and safety in the workplace.

Services are delivered using the Individual Placement and Support Model, an evidence based best practice, client centred, strength based approach.

The Employment Support Worker must also provide:

job development within the community, employment determination, career planning, mental health supports, employment preparation, service coordination as required, arrange unpaid placements, job crisis support, accommodation planning and implementation, education and supports to both employees and employers within the community, job retention and on site coaching.

The Employment Support Worker must possess the ability to efficiently and accurately collect and enter statistical and financial reporting to program funders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Vocational Support to Clients and Employers

Provide support to clients using the eight principles of the Individual Placement and Support model
Assist individuals with mental health concerns to identify viable work options
Assess employment readiness
Plan courses of action as a result of assessments functional capacity evaluations, consideration of clients' physical tolerances, impact of mental health on employability and activities of daily living etc.
Recommend, develop and implement employment plans
Service coordination as required
Assist individuals to prepare for and find meaningful and competitive employment
Job development, including job carving
Provide job coaching (on site support to job train clients and/or assist them to maintain quality, accuracy and quality of work)
Provide intensive job retention support
Market the At Work program to prospective employers
Advocate and negotiate on behalf of clients, when necessary
Facilitate referrals to identified community resources
Develop accommodation plans
Provide job crisis support
Provide preemployment services i.e. resume development, interview coaching
Negotiate job trials and subsidies with employers and other Employment Services agencies
Understand and provide Labour Market Information to job seekers to direct their employment search

2. Documentation

Document and maintain electronic and paper client records (intake and assessment forms, progress notes, correspondences, database files, etc.)
Complete administrative tasks including: timesheets, expense reports, vacation requests
Complete other required documents in program and agency policies and procedures and standards
Report and maintain programrelated statistical data
Enter employment details (including job type, job title, hours, wage, etc.) and monthly income earnings in funder database

3. Other Activities

Liaise with Community Employment Resource Partnerships, E.S. service provider meeting group, Employment Networking Group, the local Ontario Disability Support Program, and Ontario Works offices and various other community partners
Participate in community outreach activities through the development of collaborative partnerships, on interagency committees and through presentations, education and visits to community agencies and services as appropriate

4. Performance Management and Professional Development

Participate cooperatively in the agency performance management process/system
Stay current on relevant legislation and best practices, current research, policies and procedures
Participate in ongoing professional development and mandatory training
Actively engage and participate in sup