Description
The Mental Health Navigator works with participants to access social supports and coordinate resources designed to prevent the participant from requiring 9-1-1 services outside of emergencies. This includes working with both professional and informal supports to provide wraparound services while also guiding participants through the complex system of services, supporting them to follow their mental health intervention plans and obtaining necessary social supports.
Services are provided using a strength based, recovery-oriented approach that recognizes the importance of meeting individuals where they are at and moving forward.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide a full range of participant-centered social supports focused services in various community settings for identified complex mental health needs
- Assess, along with triage team, the suitability for program participation and identify alternative supports
- Utilize a strength based, wholistic, recovery-orientated approach that recognizes and respects each participant's unique experiences and needs
- Identify needs and support individuals in accessing social supports, such as subsidies, housing, mental health, addictions, parenting, engage informal support people to assist with ensuring safety, risk mitigation and supporting intervention strategies
- Complete safety risk assessments using a variety of screening and tools, creating suicide prevention safety plans and family violence screenings
- Work closely with the Supportive Outreach Services Mental Health Counsellor to implement social support strategies with participants, manage a caseload of individuals to ensure resource needs continue to be met while awaiting, treatment
- Engage informal support people to assist in ensuring safety, risk mitigation, and supporting intervention strategies that maintain stabilization, this includes consultation and liaison with families, community service providers, schools and police
- Facilitate and participate in collaborative community tables for goal setting and case planning, supporting transitions to other providers, advocating for participant in service systems as well as completing referrals to additional resources
- Meet participants, when safe to do so, in various environments conducive and appropriate for case management and intervention support, this may include office, home, virtual, community, or other agency settings
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills:
- Social Sciences university degree plus 3 years experience or a diploma and 5 years related experience with preference for fields with regulated practice
- Required to attain and maintain appropriate registrations and certificates
- Minimum of 2 years experience working in community mental health and supporting people in distress (complex, overwhelming situations) is preferred
- Training and experience in suicide and family violence risk assessment and safety planning, mental illness and addictions is required
- A strong and current understanding of evidenced based interventions/practices for complex individuals
- The ability to effectively consult, liaise and include families, community service providers, schools and police as part of the comprehensive support system
- Experience and understanding of complex social systems. current knowledge of resources and referral processes, as well as experience collaborating with community partners from varying agencies
- Communicates by effectively conveying information and expressing thoughts and facts in a clear and concise manner (both verbal and written)
- Demonstrates adaptability by positively and readily adapting to change in the work environment; changes behaviour in response to feedback and learns from experience; functions effectively in uncertain or stressful situations and motivates others to respond constructively to change
Conditions of Employment:
- Submission of a Satisfactory Vulnerable Sector Check and Child Intervention Record Check
- Valid Alberta Class 5 Driver’s licence and submission of a 5-year Driver’s Abstract with less than 7 demerits
Salary & Benefits
Salary Range: $81,868.60 - $102,338.60
Who We Are:
Strathcona County is a specialized municipality located in the heart of Alberta. Our vision is to become Canada’s most livable community, where our workplace culture and identity are supported by our people plan and values of integrity, respect, safety, fairness, and cooperation.
Why Join Strathcona County: (depending on position)
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
- Extended health and dental coverage
- Health and wellness spending account
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement and pension programs
- Paid and unpaid leave programs
- Earned day off program
- Employee and family assistance program
- Commitment to employee development, through internal and external training and development opportunities
- Well-being programs and a safety culture focused on physical and psychological health in the workplace
Equivalencies of education and experience may be considered.
This competition may be used to fill future vacancies for similar positions within the next 6 months.
Strathcona County is committed to an inclusive, respectful, and equitable workplace that represents the community we serve. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who can contribute diverse perspectives and experiences.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Contact
Please apply on our website: fa-erjf-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/11794
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