Posting End Date: July 30,2026 Southern Health-Santé Sud Site: Mental Health
- Winkler Department/Unit: Mental Health & Addictions Work

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Mental Health
- Winkler Permanent Anticipated shift: Find your rewarding career in a vibrant and diverse community within Southern Health-Santé Sud. Our organization is privileged to provide care for people at every point in their lives. Partnering with our communities, we provide safe, accessible and sustainable people-centered health care. We are proud to work in collaboration with all our partners within and throughout our diverse region: seven First Nations Communities, Francophone, Métis, Mennonite and Hutterite communities as well as a growing number of immigrants from all over the world. Be part of the Southern Health-Santé Sud team, who is rooted in what matters most. The Community Mental Health Worker (CMHW) is a clinician who provides psychosocial assessment, consultation and evidence-informed counselling intervention and psychosocial rehabilitation to individuals referred to the mental health program for mental health related problems. Through the application of therapeutic skills that promote and build on individual’s strengths, the CMHW assists the individual/family to maximize independence, self-responsibility and promotes personal wellness, community integration and social justice. Depending on individual needs and particularly when working with individuals with enduring mental illness, the CMHW applies case management functions that focus on functional assessment and skill development, relapse prevention, and rehabilitation. Services are based on the principles of recovery, empowerment, self-determination and responsibility and are part of a continuum of mental health services.



Clinicians operate within a collaborative care structure and provide time-limited, goal-oriented, change-focused interventions and/or consultations that are based on informed consent, voluntary participation and within individual capacity. The CMHW requires a diverse and comprehensive knowledge base about trauma informed psychiatric care as well as other adopted mental health therapies and the ability possess and integrate into practice crisis management and suicide intervention skills. The CMHW as part of the Intensive Case Management (ICM) Mental Health program offers recovery orientated, community-based rehabilitation, and supports to individuals living with a psychotic disorder accompanied by or experiencing a severe and persistent functional impairment that limits major life activities in one or more areas including daily living, employment, education, and/or leisure. The CMHW
- ICM clinician will provide Intensive case management services to individuals through community-based, person-centered and strengths-based supports, that promote recovery, stabilization and independent living. Supports include crisis intervention, functional assessment, identification of service plan goals and objectives, ongoing service planning/intervention, skill development, relapse prevention, linkage to services, evaluation of measurable outcomes related to individual progress, case coordination and consultation with other service providers, and transfer of service,



where appropriate. The CMHW as part of the Transition program will provide short term support to individuals and families who require support navigating and accessing alternate services, where the individual is not connected to other resources and appears to require assistance in identifying/connecting to other resources. Services enable individuals to regain hope, self-determination and empowerment, identify and strengthen skills and abilities, achievement of personal goals, increase personal supports and community integration, and become active partners in their recovery journey to improve the quality of all aspects of life including social, occupational, educational, residential, intellectual, spiritual and financial. The Community Mental Health Worker works to the full scope of practice and engages in ongoing education and maintains competency congruent with Southern Health-Santé Sud policies, qualified standards of practice, the appropriate college and code of ethics and the Regulated Health Professions Act. and the policies of Southern Health-Santé Sud. Minimum of two (2) years supervised counselling experience. Experience in providing mental health services for adults or children and adolescents or adults with serious mental illnesses, or senior’s mental health. Graduate of an accredited post-secondary education in Health-Related Social Sciences (e.g. Knowledge and understanding of all aspects of mental health service. Advanced mental health psychosocial assessment skills and knowledge of appropriate evidence informed therapeutic counseling models, approaches and interventions. Advanced knowledge of human developmental theory and mental health concerns typically identified for various popu

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