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Join CASA Mental Health in shaping a brighter future for children, youth and families by providing them with timely mental health care and empowering them to thrive.

Job Details

Wage range: $33.26 – $40.89
Shift structure: Monday to Friday, 7.25 hours per day
Primary location: CASA West
Secondary location (s): Enoch Cree Nation
Union: In-Scope
Classification: Therapy Support Navigator
FTE: 1.0
Status: Permanent

About the Role:
The Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Program supports First Nation and Métis school divisions to develop mental health strategies and models of intervention. School staff are provided access to professional development training and consultation services. The school-based wrap-around team provides universal mental health education, targeted group programming, and mental health services to children and adolescents attending partner First Nation and Métis schools.

The Wellness Coach will:

• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with children and adolescents in the school setting.
• Provide mentorship, modeling and coaching to students.
• Develop and facilitate developmentally appropriate, evidence-based universal mental health programming to reduce stigma and increase mental health literacy in children and adolescents attending partner schools.
• Facilitate access to community services for children, adolescents and their families.
• Provide Indigenous-informed services through the implementation of culturally integrated practice, including Indigenous ways of knowing, healing, ceremony, culture and spirituality.
• Develop and facilitate targeted group programming for children and adolescents.
• Work to develop collaborative relationships with First Nation and Métis community service providers, Elders and Knowledge Keepers to support the continuum of care in First Nation and Métis communities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, child and youth care, education, psychology or related field.
• Minimum of three years of practical experience in a children’s mental health treatment setting, with a particular emphasis on dual diagnosis, learning disability, developmental delay and executive dysfunction.
• Experience working in school-based services.
• Experience working with Indigenous children, adolescents and families, or in First Nation and Métis communities, is an asset.
• Mental health literacy and/or social-emotional learning training is an asset.
• Valid Class 5 driver’s license and access to a vehicle.

Conditions of Employment

• A satisfactory Criminal Records Check with Vulnerable Sector Search. This would be the financial responsibility of the successful candidate.
• Ability to pass and maintain Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) certification (training provided by CASA), as well as physical ability to perform all interventions.

Closing Date: October 27, 2024

Please quote the following competition number in your application materials: 24-166. #WC

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