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Employer Job Number: GO-00229574
Facility: BATTLEFORDS MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE
Job Description: This position performs intake interviews and crisis intervention procedures, as well as a broad range of psychotherapy and other counseling interventions. Clients include children and youth who are insecure, aggressive, depressed, anxious and/or withdrawn, who may live in dysfunctional families and communities and who are suicidal, traumatized, criminally offending and suffering from significant developmental disabilities. Public education and other primary prevention activities may be required as well as a range of integrated case-management services and consults with other organizations and agencies. Major challenges include managing a large and diverse caseload, developing the technical skills to deal with a broad range of presenting problems and developing the skill to accurately and succinctly document care plans and progress. Within the general mandate parameters and under the general direction and supervision of the program manager, the position independently makes decisions around assessment procedures, intervention strategies, exercising clinical judgment and sound ethical decision making.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor Degree in Social Work
Registered or eligible for registration with the Saskatchewan Association of Social Workers (SASW)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Organizational skills
Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
Ability to adapt to changing conditions
Assessment skills
Expected Start Date: September 8, 2015
Expected Up To Date: September 23, 2016
FTE: 1.00
Hours of Work: In a 3 week rotation: 14 shifts of 8.00 hours
Human Resources Department, Prairie North Health Region
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