Mobile Mental Health and Addictions Response Team Worker

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By Canadian Mental Health Association Grey Bruce

Posted Date: Posted 2 days ago

Final date to receive applications Date: February 23, 2026

At the CMHA Grey Bruce we cultivate hope, resilience and community for those who live with, and are impacted by, mental illness and/ or/ addiction. We are driven by our values of compassion, dignity, inclusivity, integrity and choice. We will create an inclusive community inspiring hope, choice and well-being for all.

We are currently recruiting for:

PERMANENT FULL TIME

JOB
-06

LOCATION:
Grey Bruce

JOB TYPE:
Non-Union

Final date to receive applications:
February 23, 2026

This posting is for an existing vacancy

x Internal & External Posting

The MMHART Worker is responsible for providing residents of the Grey and Bruce counties with serious mental illness, or those at risk, with telephone or face to face crisis assessment, intervention and resolution with the goal of reduced admission or re-admission and utilization of hospital inpatient services.

• Provide onsite response crisis intervention to people in crisis in collaboration with first responders, health professionals, schools or community stakeholders
• Attend rural hospitals in Grey and Bruce to conduct crisis assessments
• Attend community locations with police for crisis intervention and/or risk assessment as a first response
• Attend community locations with EMS for crisis intervention and/or risk assessment as a tiered response
• Attend schools to provide onsite assessments without police presence, as per the Bluewater School Board suicide prevention strategy, and in an effort to avoid having youth needlessly taken to hospital for risk assessment.
• Provide crisis follow-up counselling for up to thirty days to ensure appropriate linkages are made to services and supports to improve client coping skills
• Act as a resource to other services in Grey and Bruce and liaise with Schedule 1 hospitals
• Provide consultation to community stakeholders, offer referrals and resources for mental health and addictions services
• Provide client assessment, intervention and counselling for mental health and addictions
• Collaborate in the multi-disciplinary approach to service
• Meet professional standards according to the relevant professional code of ethics
• Maintain current and accurate client records as prescribed in the above noted manual
• Maintain statistical records associated with caseload functions according to agency guidelines
• Meet with supervisor for general supervision, performance evaluations and identify training needs
• Responsible for ongoing professional development/continuing education towards the delivery of mental health services
• Ensure that all confidential program/caseload information and material is handled in a confidential manner
• Assess clients’ immediate and ongoing needs
• Assist clients to identify and advocate for their civil and legal rights
• Facilitate access to other services in areas such as assistance with daily living crisis intervention and treatment
• Provide clinical counselling and information to reduce the incidence, duration and intensity of a crisis in conjunction with hospital staff and first responders to a crisis
• Work collaboratively with other services, supports and resources, with respect to diversity
• Advocating for clients’ needs within the medical care and mental health systems
• Participate in case conferences
• Evaluate the achievement of goals and client satisfaction

37.5 hours per week, providing 24/6 coverage, currently no Sunday shifts. Schedule subject to change. Must be available for day, overnight, weekend and holiday shifts. Interactions with clients in crisis. May require travel with police in cruisers, wearing police vests. Environments can be unstable and uncontrolled. Multi demand work environment

• A competitive hourly wage ranging between $35.00 and $38.63 (5 step grid)
• Vacation of 4 weeks to start, 5 weeks at 5 years, 6 weeks at 10 years
• Paid personal, floater…