About Lanark County Mental Health:

Lanark County Mental Health (LCMH) is a dynamic community-based organization dedicated to supporting individuals facing mental health and substance use challenges within Lanark County. As an integral part of the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital, LCMH operates with a strong commitment to providing comprehensive care. Our organization is structured around a multidisciplinary approach, fostering collaboration among dedicated teams that deliver both community-based and crisis services.

We are proud to embrace a Stepped Care framework, ensuring the provision of evidence-based interventions tailored to individual needs.

At LCMH, we uphold a set of core cultural values that underpin our work: trust, transparency, respect, and communication. These values serve as the foundation for all our interactions, promoting a supportive and inclusive environment for our staff and clients alike. With a transparent vision for the future, our organization places strategic emphasis on the following key areas: Access, Service Expansion, Partnerships, and System Integration.

By prioritizing these aspects, we strive to continually enhance our services and contribute to a robust and integrated mental health ecosystem.

About the Position:

Reporting to the Housing and Community Services Supervisor and supported by a team lead, this position is part of a newly formed, integrated crisis response team.

The Social

Worker will practice within their full scope while providing embedded, co-response, and follow-up interventions in partnership with local police services.



The role provides immediate mobile mental health and substance use response, intervention, support, and service navigation. Working closely with Lanark County OPP and Smiths Falls Police Service, the incumbent will be stationed within police service locations as a key resource, assisting with mental health and substance use calls when safe and appropriate.

The Social

Worker will also serve as a primary point of contact for police partners and collaborate with LCMH, other health system partners, and LCMH staff to support engagement, referrals, counselling, harm reduction, crisis planning, and follow-up.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Master of Social Work degree from a recognized university and registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW).
- Ability to obtain and maintain enhance security screening as per police SOP
- Wide range of crisis intervention experience, risk assessments and interventions that include hospital based psychiatric services, emergency department experience and community mental health services and system navigation.
- Minimum three to five years relevant/recent experience directly related to the provision of mental health and/or addictions services required.
- Certification in First Aid and CPR an asset.
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) an asset.
- Crisis Prevention and Intervention training an asset.

Pay: $44.67-$57.90 per hour

Benefits

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Flexible schedule

Work Location: In person

📌 Social Worker (Smiths Falls)
🏢 PERTH AND SMITHS FALLS DISTRICT HOSPITAL
📍 Smiths Falls