Job Description:

CBFHT is currently recruiting for a full-time Social Worker/Mental Health Counsellor who has a special interest in mindfulness and supporting patients to strengthen their emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills.

Referrals to the Social Worker/Mental Health Counsellor may include treatment for trauma, OCD, and eating disorders. The successful candidate will support primary health care functions and work in collaboration with Central Brampton’s FHT full Interprofessional Healthcare Provider (IHP) team. The candidate will share their expertise and knowledge of mental health services that will support and align with CBFHT’s other health prevention programs.

Responsibilities:

- Perform client Psychosocial Assessments, Treatment, Psychoeducation and Evaluations.
- Assess, formulate and provide collaborative care plans with clients.
- Provide short-term treatment, outcome evaluation and resource referrals where required.
- Responsible for making clinical decisions and exercising judgement to ensure best possible care is provided within available resources.
- Strong relationships with CBFHT Mental Health Team members.
- Collaborate with other Interdisciplinary Health Professionals, assess, formulate, implement and discuss appropriate individualized care coordination and care plans based on best practices.
- Provide consults of assessments and intervention with referring physicians and other team clinicians within a specified timeframe.
- Support patients to manage their clinical plans including healthy choices, healthy lifestyles, appointments, medication as necessary, and self-management of care.




- Assist patients and providers to navigate the health and community service systems to identify and connect them with appropriate services and supports.
- Participate in team building, program development, and improvement activities.
- Comply with established personnel policies, procedures, standards and guidelines for operation.
- Comply with Health and Safety laws, adhering to safe work practices and procedures established by the CBFHT.

Skills:

- Preferred experience with MBCT – Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, MBSR – Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, DBT – Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Preferred experience with ERP Therapy – Exposure and Response Prevention Therapy
- Experience with managing intake assessments and providing counselling services to meet individual, family, and young-adult needs to positively impact the health of patients and families.
- Ability to communicate care plans and care coordination with referring physicians and the inter-professional health team.
- Experience providing individual, adult, couples and family sessions virtually and in person.
- Experience providing individual and group sessions for emotional regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance.
- Knowledge of the community and the resources available, especially in the areas of crisis services, Mental Health, and Long-Term Care;




- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-directed and highly motivated
- Strong organization and time management skills with demonstrated flexibility
- Ability to be open, non-judgmental and client-centred
- Experience with the use of EMR (Oscar Preferred)
- Proficiency in the use of computer hardware and software, particularly in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and electronic medical records
- Must have access to reliable transportation as travel between sites is required maybe required

Education/Specific Requirements:

- Master’s degree in social work, Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or another related graduate degree
- Registration with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and/or registration with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
- Proof of own professional liability insurance
- Fluency in other language(s) (particularly in Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese, Farsi, Arabic, etc.) would be an asset.

Experience:

- Minimum three years’ experience in a community and/or Primary Health care setting and able to demonstrate effective delivery of quality care virtually and/or in person.
- Experience in creating recent program ideas from implementation to monitoring and evaluation.

The candidate should be an enthusiastic and motivated professional seeking to contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of programs and services as well as participate fully in the delivery of comprehensive primary care.

Pay: $73,819.00-$77,673.00 per year

Work Location: In person

📌 Social Worker/Mental Health Counsellor (Brampton)
🏢 Central Brampton Family Health Team
📍 Brampton