Community Mental Health Worker - Adult - Repost

Position Overview

The Community Mental Health Worker (CMHW) is a clinician who provides psychosocial assessment, consultation, evidence-informed counselling intervention, and psychosocial rehabilitation to individuals referred to the mental health program for mental health related problems. Through the application of therapeutic skills that promote and build on individuals’ strengths, the CMHW assists the individual/family to maximize independence, self‑responsibility, and personal wellness, community integration, and social justice.

When working with individuals with enduring mental illness, the CMHW applies case management functions focused on functional assessment, skill development, relapse prevention, and rehabilitation.

Services are based on the principles of recovery, empowerment, self‑determination, and responsibility and form part of a continuum of mental health services. Clinicians operate within a collaborative care structure and provide time‑limited, goal‑oriented, change‑focused interventions and/or consultations that are based on informed consent, voluntary participation, and within individual capacity. The CMHW requires a comprehensive knowledge base about trauma‑informed psychiatric care, other mental health therapies, and the ability to incorporate crisis management and suicide intervention skills into practice.

The CMHW exercises the appropriate level of initiative and independent judgement to determine work priorities, methods, and actions on unusual matters.

The CMHW works as part of the Adult program portfolio in an integrated team approach within a mental health clinical practice framework, engaging in consultation, assessment, and therapeutic interventions/treatment. The CMHW collaborates with primary health care providers, specialists, families, and services/agencies involved with the adult to support individuals in their personal recovery where they live, learn, work, and socialize.

• Minimum two (2) years’ experience providing evidence‑based therapy to adults (3–5 years preferred).
• Minimum of two (2) years supervised counselling experience.
• Experience and training in trauma‑informed care, brief treatment models, CBT, DBT, etc.
• Experience in providing mental health services for adults or children and adolescents, or adults with serious mental illnesses, or seniors’ mental health.
• Experience in completing psychosocial assessments and mental status examinations.

• Graduate of an accredited post‑secondary education in Health‑Related Social Sciences (e.g., BSW, BScMH, BScPN, BN, RPN). Other relevant educational qualifications and experience may be considered.
• Master’s degree an asset – qualified as a Psychiatric Nurse, Occupational Therapist (MOT), Clinical Social Worker (MSW), Family Therapist (MFT), Masters of Counselling Psychology (MACP), or equivalent.
• Training and demonstrated skill in clinical assessment and case formulation, psychotropic medications, psychopathology, and individual / group / family / systems intervention.

• Active licence and registration to practice as required by professional association and provincial legislation.
• Certificate in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills (ASIST).

• Knowledge and understanding of all aspects of mental health service.
• Advanced mental health psychosocial assessment skills and knowledge of appropriate evidence‑informed therapeutic counselling models, approaches, and interventions.
• Advanced knowledge of human developmental theory and mental health concerns typically identified for various populations across the age spectrum, including signs and symptoms of mental illness.
• Knowledge of recovery principles in the treatment of mental illness.
• Knowledge of co‑occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Knowledge of commonly prescribed psychotropic medications for mental disorders across the age spectrum.
• Knowledge of mental health self‑help and client and family engagement in mental health treatment.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and standards in Manitoba (e.g., Personal Health Information Act) as specified by Southern…