Psychiatric Emergency Supports (PES) is seeking a Mental Health Aide (MHA) to join our dynamic team within the Emergency Department at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Working alongside nurses and other members of the interdisciplinary team, the MHA provides direct support to patients experiencing acute mental health and/or substance use concerns. The successful candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced and unpredictable environment and will demonstrate strong communication, teamwork, and de-escalation skills.

Responsibilities include supporting patient safety and observation, assisting with activities of daily living and comfort measures, maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment, and providing compassionate, respectful, patient-centred care.

Experience working with individuals experiencing mental health, addictions, behavioural concerns, or crisis is considered an asset.

Description:

As a Mental Health Aide, you will work as a collaborative member of the multidisciplinary team to provide a welcoming and secure care environment. You will assist in the provision of direct patient/client care as delegated in a person-centered, recovery oriented and safe manner. In this position, you will assist and / or promote independence to patients/clients in completing activities of daily living as well as assisting other health professionals with providing treatments and observing and reporting relevant patient/client information to professional staff.



You will assist new patients/clients and families with orientation, and assist in the general support of the work area.

- Classification: Mental Health Aide
- Union: AUPE AUX
- Unit and Program: Psychiatric Emergency Supports
- Primary Location: Red Deer Regional Hospital
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.00
- Posting End Date: 05-OCT-2026
- Employee Class: Casual/Relief
- Date Available: 15-OCT-2026
- Length of Shift in weeks: Varies
- Shifts per cycle: Varies
- Days Off: Other
- Minimum Salary: $24.77
- Maximum Salary: $28.88
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

- Classification: Mental Health Aide
- Union: AUPE AUX
- Unit and Program: Psychiatric Emergency Supports
- Primary Location: Red Deer Regional Hospital
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: Not Applicable
- FTE: 0.00
- Posting End Date: 05-OCT-2026
- Employee Class: Casual/Relief
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: Varies
- Shifts per cycle: Varies
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends
- Days Off: Other
- Minimum Salary: $24.77
- Maximum Salary: $28.88
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications

Completion of Grade 12.A combination of education and experience satisfactory to the employer will also be considered.

Additional Required Qualifications

As Required.

Preferred Qualifications

As Required.

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