Mental Health Support Worker

Island Health

Job title:

Psychological Well being Assist Employee

Firm

Island Well being

Job description

Shut Date

Location

Nanaimo Wentworth Avenue (Psychological Well being) – Nanaimo, BC V9R 3E4 CA (Major)

Work Space (FBA Solely)

Multi-Website

Sure

Journey Requirement

Journey between a number of websites is an everyday/on-going requirement

Shift Begin Time/Finish Time

As Required

Days Off

As required

Emptiness Kind

Informal

Wage Vary (Hourly Charge)

$30.64 – $32.31

Paid FTE

N/A

Labored BI-WEEKLY HOURS

N/A

Deliberate Begin Date

Mar. 1 2024

Approximate Finish Date (For Non permanent Assignments ONLY)

Pending Return of Incumbent

No

CRC required? (worker will probably be working with or have entry to youngsters or weak adults and requires a Felony File Test)

Sure

Job Description

In accordance with the Imaginative and prescient, Goal, and Values, and strategic path of the Vancouver Island Well being Authority (Island Well being), affected person and employees security is a precedence and a duty shared by everybody; as such, the requirement to repeatedly enhance high quality and security is inherent in all elements of this place.

Reporting to the Coordinator, as a member of a multidisciplinary workforce, the Psychological Well being Assist Employee offers life abilities coaching, teaching, advocacy, recommendation, and help providers for shoppers experiencing psychological well being, behavioral, and developmental issues and to their caregivers/households, in accordance with a longtime plan of therapy/care. Motivates, assists, and instructs shoppers with the actions of each day residing, experiences shoppers’ progress and situation, together with reactions to drugs.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Schooling, Coaching And Expertise

Diploma in Neighborhood Social Companies, e.g. Psychological Well being Employee, Neighborhood Well being Employee, Resident Care Attendant/Lengthy Time period Care Aide, or Social Companies Employee together with post-secondary training in counselling abilities coaching. Information of laws such because the Psychological Well being Act and the Guardianship Act. Information of obtainable packages, their interrelationships, and their perform in delivering care locally. Present Degree C Primary Life Saving Certificates. Legitimate Class 5 car license. Meals Secure Certificates.A minimal of two years latest associated expertise working with individuals with psychological sickness/ particular wants together with educating life abilities, or an equal mixture of training, coaching and expertise.

Expertise And Talents

  • Potential to speak successfully each verbally and in writing.
  • Potential to take care of others successfully.
  • Potential to prioritize and set up shopper calls for made and care wants.
  • Potential to drawback clear up.
  • Potential to show life abilities.
  • Sound judgment and good statement abilities.
  • Potential to display an acceptable degree of initiative and independence.
  • Potential to work cooperatively as a part of a multidisciplinary workforce.
  • Potential to advertise constructive change and independence.
  • Bodily and emotion means to hold out the duties of the place.
  • Potential to function associated gear.
  • Advocacy abilities.

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Further data for candidates

Further Clauses

Vaccination Notification: To maintain our workers, shoppers and the communities we serve protected, Island Well being is imposing an worker obligatory vaccination coverage which is meant to stop the transmission of COVID-19. As such, Island Well being requires Proof of BC Provincial Immunization Registration as a situation of employment, and any gives of employment are contingent on you offering proof of vaccination previous to graduation of the supplied efficient date. If a proposal of employment is prolonged, however proof of vaccination is just not supplied, the supply will probably be rescinded.

Requisition CA

Neighborhood Subsector

Affiliation/Union

BCGEU

Anticipated wage

Location

Nanaimo, BC

Job date

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:09:03 GMT

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