Community Mental Health Worker

POSITION SUMMARY

The Community Mental Health Worker (CMHW) provides mental health service to residents of Prairie Mountain Health, and may be based in both community and facility settings. As a member of the assigned interdisciplinary team, the incumbent provides a broad range of mental health services to clients and their families, and acts as the primary counsellor and/or case manager for all newly referred clients as well as those with long-term service needs. In collaboration and partnership with other health care providers, clients’ families and community stakeholders, the CMHW focuses on supporting individuals in their personal recovery where they live, learn, work and socialize.

The CMHW requires a diverse and comprehensive knowledge base about trauma informed psychiatric care as well as other adopted mental health therapies and the ability possess and integrate into practice crisis management and suicide intervention skills. Through the applicati...