Case Worker; Child & Youth Worker; Concurrent Youth Unit

The Child Youth and Family Services (CYFS) at CAMH is located in our Intergenerational Wellness Building at the redeveloped Queen Street Site of CAMH. As an integral part of the ambitious growth agenda for CAMH, the Child and Family Services clinics serve children, youth and emerging adults who have mental health and/or addiction challenges along with their families and caregivers. These services are closely aligned with our Research Centres including the McCain Centre for Child, Youth and Family Mental Health and the Cundill Centre for Child and Youth Depression.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is currently seeking a part-time, permanent Case Worker (Child and Youth Worker) to work on the Concurrent Youth Unit serving province-wide youth with concurrent disorders: a moderate to severe addiction to substances and co-occuring mental health issues. Reporting to the Senior Manager, you will be part of an inter-professional team and responsible for providing a range of specialized services to youth between the ages of 13 and 18, and potentially to 21 years of age.

The Case Workers’ duties will include client and environmental assessments, patient care planning, intervention and care delivery, patient support toward goal achievement, care evaluation, family support, and development and facilitation of groups and other programming.

Your role will include supporting evidence based models of care and programming, such as Motivational Interviewing (MI) Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The role will be familiar with and supportive of program and CAMH policies and processes. The supervision and support of clients will include classroom assistance. Your skills include the ability to make behavioural observations, mental status and risk assessments, and understand stages of development.

In your role, you will provide quality clinical documentation, engage in effective communication, and promote positive working relationships with other team members. You will have knowledge of crisis prevention and intervention, mental health and addiction issues, trauma-informed care, recovery, and family-informed care. As a member of an inter-professional treatment team, you will work collaboratively and contribute discipline specific knowledge, skills and services to the team.

You will contribute to activities such as unit/program development, and will deliver services and programming in a manner that is safe, support student and volunteer placements, and you will support the program’s evaluation and research activities. You will value and engage in self-reflection and continuous learning. Your role will include support to clients in transition to other services and you will liaise with other services at CAMH and with community agencies, as required, to coordinate care for clients.

You will sustain positive working relationships with internal and external partners. Supervision of Child and Youth professional students is expected. You will support a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, and complies with all applicable and regulatory requirements. This position involves shift rotation, and this position is located at 80 Workman Way on the Queen Street Site.

The successful candidates will have a three (3) year College Diploma in Child and Youth Care combined with two (2) years of related experience. Membership in the Ontario Association of Child and Youth Counsellors in good standing is required. Experience with concurrent disordered youth in a substance abuse treatment program is an asset. You will have experience dealing with complex and challenging youth, and possess the ability to intervene in…