Mental Health Therapist, Trauma Specialist

Make a difference in a growing innovative mental health organization and centre of excellence in people-centered care. Work with supportive colleagues who are passionate about improving lives and champions for quality and continuous learning.

As a Mental Health Therapist Trauma Specialist you will be an integral part of a collaborative team focused on delivering seamless services and programs to our clients and customers. If you are looking for a company that is constantly moving forward in pursuit of successful outcomes get ready to love it here!

What youll be doing:

• Conduct interviews with clients and client-identified resources assess social psychological emotional and behavioral issues and identify core areas of concern to be addressed by therapeutic interventions
• Provide reports on clients behavior and progress and maintain clinical records
• Maintain knowledge related to the areas of trauma and therapeutic interventions
• Facilitate or co-facilitate psycho-educational experiential and process groups
• Develop implement and evaluate programs based on patient needs and goals
• Provide client-centered treatment RTW (Return to Work)-oriented support and culturally competent services to clients
• Assume responsibility for the treatment recovery process and support of assigned clients
• Facilitate group therapy provide individual counselling and therapeutic interventions
• Participate in weekly team meetings for client reviews treatment planning therapeutic interventions discharge planning and to organize daily assignments
• Establish and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with clinical and program stakeholders
• Collect client information for the purpose of customer reports program evaluation research and proposals
• Participate in trauma-related committees project development quality improvement promotional initiatives across SAW (Stay at Work) RTW Divisions and Inpatient/Residential Programs
• Supervise assigned students and/or interns

What were looking for:

• Masters in Counselling Psychology Social Work or other related discipline
• Valid registration with the relevant governing body
• Knowledge of standardized and non-standardized assessments
• Service-specific training i.e. wellness education
• Knowledge of issues of trauma concurrent addiction disorders Psychosocial Rehabilitation Recovery CBT DBT CPR Mental Health Act and PHIPA
• Strong organizational time management and presentation skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word Excel Outlook and PowerPoint
• Ability to provide seamless customer service delivery to both internal and external stakeholders and identify opportunities for customer service improvement
• Proven ability to work independently as well as to contribute actively to team objectives
• Take responsibility for actions and decisions
• Find ways to integrate sustainability into your own work
• Awareness and acknowledgment of the value of using measurement-based care when supporting patients/clients to help guide clinical decision making; experience an asset

Why work with us

Homewood Health is Canadas largest and leading service provider for medically focused evidence-based treatment of mental health and addiction disorders. Our organizational culture values service excellence integrity collaboration and innovation. Our people make a difference!

As an equal opportunity employer Homewood Health is committed to employment accessibility diversity equity and inclusion. For this reason we encourage applications from members of equity-seeking groups including women racialized and indigenous communities persons with disabilities and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.

Join us at Homewood Health and be part of a diverse team helping Canadians live healthier more productive and fulfilling lives.

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