Mental Health Therapist
Mental Health Therapist
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$ 43 - 55
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Job Description
Join CASA Mental Health in shaping a brighter future for children youth and families by providing them with timely mental health care and empowering them to thrive.
Job Details
Wage range: $43.17 to $55.39
Shift structure: Monday to Friday 7.25 hours per day
Primary location: CASA House
Union: Inscope
FTE: 1.0 FTE 36.25 hours/week)
Status: Temporary 12 months)
About the Role:
CASA House is a livein program for teens who need support with significant mental health and/or addictions challenges. Teens stay at CASA House for an average of four months. The program involves parents and caregivers as active participants in treatment. Treatment includes individual group and family therapy social and life skills training and onsite schooling in small classroom settings.
The Mental Health Therapist will:
- Work with the CASA team and external supports to provide highquality traumafocused mental health therapies to children teens and families.
- Help caregivers with children with exceptional needs build specialized parenting skills.
- Formulate diagnoses as appropriate using the DSM5TR and other diagnostic tools.
- Provide clinical input to Therapy Support Navigators providing case management and wraparound care for patients and families.
- Conduct case management functions including convening case conferences and liaising with CASA therapists and psychiatrists community services and other professionals involved with the child and family.
- Coordinate consultation to others therapists or external partners as appropriate.
- Provide supervision or preceptorship for student placements.
- Contribute to staff knowledge and understanding of disciplinespecific issues.
- Masters degree in psychology social work (with psychosocial intervention designation) or occupational therapy.
- Current registration in good standing with a professional college identified under the Health Professions Act.
- A minimum of two years of clinical practice in child and family mental health and/or youth addictions.
- Demonstrated ability to practice culturallysafe therapeutic interventions.
- Knowledge of and experience in supporting the healing of children and youth who have experienced trauma.
- Knowledge of and experience in bottomup and topdown modalities is an asset.
- Excellent organizational interpersonal and communication skills.
- A satisfactory Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Search and Child Intervention Check. This would be the financial responsibility of the successful candidate.
- Ability to pass and maintain Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) certification (training provided by CASA) as well as physical ability to perform all interventions.
Please quote the following competition number in your application materials: 25092 #MHT
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Temp
