After Hours Team Lead, Withdrawal Management - St. Thomas, Canada - CMHA Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services

CMHA Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services

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St. Thomas, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

After Hours Team Lead, Withdrawal Management & Crisis Outreach (Elgin)

Direct Service (OPSEU)_

Full-Time, Contract (Ending:
March 29, 2025)

St. Thomas; Elgin County Catchment Area (Elgin Zone)

- Application Deadline: March 21, 2024 -

The Afterhours Team Lead - Withdrawal Management & Crisis Outreach is responsible for providing operational support to Crisis Services and Withdrawal Management teams in addition to the Program Manager.

In addition to direct client service, the afterhours team lead duties may include clinical consultation, client service tracking, staff scheduling and coordination, staff orientation and development, reporting, and assistance with implementation of program strategic objectives.

The Afterhours Team Lead will continue to provide direct client service to individuals accessing services by providing a psychosocial response in order to promote crisis resolution and empowerment for the individual.

The team lead will actively support individuals who are experiencing withdrawal from substances in a community setting.

This position will include working collaboratively with individuals to assess and identity their needs and link them with community services to provide coordinated, community-based health and social services.

The Afterhours Team Lead position is a shift differential position and is accorded a pay premium for assuming additional administrative and clinical responsibilities relevant to the Withdrawal Management & Crisis Outreach teams.

Accordingly, assignment of these responsibilities does not negate a secondary job description executed by a worker, and responsibilities of this position are assumed in addition to the other responsibilities, with recognition that the total responsibilities are still performed within the hours of the standard work week and that other responsibilities will be reduced or adjusted as needed

Consider revitalizing your career and making a difference in your community by joining our team

WHAT WE'RE OFFERING:

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What you'll be making - Starting rate for this role is
$26.48 per hour (Level

Direct Service), with a wage differential, based on regulation (
$29.

28 per hour for Level - Direct Service, Regulated):

Successful external applicants will start at Level 1, with grid progression based on seniority up to Level 8 ($33.56 per hour for nonregulated, and $36.35 per hour for regulated)
For internal applicants, grid level placement will occur as per the Collective Agreement

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When you'll work:

70 hours over twoweek period; Afternoons and Evenings, including weekends

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Your benefits will be - 9% in lieu of benefits
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Your pension plan

Immediately eligible for optional enrollment in Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)

HOW YOU WILL BE MAKING A DIFFERENCE:

_ Crisis Assessment and

Counselling Supports:
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Establish a working and supportive relationship with the client
Assess clients' mental, physical and emotional functional abilities and need
Investigates client's current resources through complete psychosocial history and domains collections, and collateral information
Provide client assessment, intervention, and counselling via telephone and in person supports based on theory of crisis management including rapid response to identify:
the impact of psychiatric symptoms on functioning

- risk factors related to safety of client and others
- opportunities for de-escalation and stabilization

Provide mental health assessments to Emergency Departments, St. Thomas Police Service and Elgin County Ontario Provincial Police upon request
Provide counselling support to those attending at one of CMHA TVAMHS Elgin County based Crisis Services at STEGH and 110 Centre as well as mobile

_ Withdrawal Supports:
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Provide clientcentered care from a harm reduction approach
Responsible for screening and assessment for individual's referral to the program
Acquire and maintain a high level of current knowledge about substance use disorders and trends as well as treatment options
Provide education, referrals and support for people using substances and related needs
Capacity and comfort level dealing with streetinvolved clients who may exhibit behaviors consistent with their distress, intoxication or other circumstances
Collaborate with addiction and mental health service providers to support the needs of clients who may be in crisis and needing supervised withdrawal management support
Providing support to clients in taking their medication as prescribed

_ Crisis Intervention:
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Provide shortterm, psychotherapeutic intervention to assist individuals in gaining insight and improving coping skills within the framework of the crisis model.
Perform in a calm, competent and efficient manner in an emergency situation acknowledging the individual's need for privacy and dignity
Teach, using a variety of approaches, life skills and adaptive techniques t