Social Worker, Mental Health

Salary Range: $58,715.00 To $65,228.00 Annually

Do you have experience working in the homeless-serving sector-of-care? Do you have a strong foundation in addictions and mental health? If so, this position may be for you!

Since 1973, The Alex has been a community-based, not-for-profit organization providing integrated primary health care, community support services, and housing-focused programs to individuals and families who experience barriers to accessing traditional health, housing, and social service systems. Services are grounded in principles of health equity, low-barrier access, trauma-informed practice, cultural safety, harm reduction, and person-centered care.

The Street Team provides proactive outreach to individuals who are disconnected from traditional services, combining social work and peer support to deliver harm reduction supplies, crisis response, referrals, and naloxone training and distribution.

Reporting to the Team Lead,the Social Worker works in collaboration with team members - including the team’s Peer Support Workers - and other Alex programs to support individuals, including youth and adults, who are experiencing challenges associated with mental health and addictions. Working from a harm reduction, trauma-informed and anti-oppression framework, the Social Worker delivers front-line, flexible, and proactive outreach to support individuals to achieve stability and wellness.

This is a permanent, full-time position.

• Provide assertiveand flexible community outreach services that respond to individuals’ mental health and addiction concerns.
• Promote health and harm reduction through teaching, motivational interviewing, counselling, and distributing safe supplies.
• Provide case management to assist with housing, employment, education, community integration, treatment programs, etc.
• Work supportively with clients, families, and community partners to achieve client and community goals.
• Collaborate with the variousinterdisciplinary teams at the Alex and external stakeholders to provide services that support client goals.
• Work within a trauma informed, harm reduction, and culturally sensitive framework.
• Facilitate group programming for clients and staff relevant to needs and individual expertise.
• Complete required documentation to ensure accurate, timely, and useful collection and entry of client information and program data.
• Participate in data collection and program evaluation.
• Operate a personal or Alex fleet vehicle safely to support program delivery, including occasional transportation of clients to approved community destinations.
• Represent The Alex in a professional manner at all times.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• Degree or Diploma in Social Work is required.
• Active registration with the Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW).
• Minimum two (2) years of experience, professional and/or lived, working with vulnerable populations experiencing mental health and substance use concerns, and housing instability.
• Demonstrated knowledge about resources for housing, mental health, addiction, social and financial support, etc.
• Adherence to harm reduction, trauma informed, housing first, and culturally sensitive principles.
• Knowledge of and experience developing and delivering evidence-based care plans and interventions,that are suitable for single session and inconsistent interactions (e.g., motivational interviewing, solution focused, crisis intervention, etc.)
• Dedication to accuracy in data collection and quality improvement measures.
• Commitment to respectful communication, and collaboration among internal and external team members to provide responsive and appropriate client care with complex needs.
• First Aid (Basic or Intermediate) – Level C CPR & AED within 30 days of hire date; certification must be valid for a minimum of 6 months upon hire.
• Minimum of 21 years of age and three (3) years of driving experience.
• Class 5 driver’s license, personal vehicle for business use, clean 3-year drivers abstract, and $2 million liability coverage are required.
• A satisfactory vulnerable sector criminal record clearance and child welfare intervention check are required.
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