Description
The Opportunity
CMHA (Canadian Mental Health Association) has delivered a successful Intensive Case Management Housing First Program called Community housing with Supports, since 2011. We are now expanding and developing a comprehensive community housing and wellness support continuum including all three levels of Housing First, including Assertive community Treatment and Rapid Re-housing. This opportunity is for a manager of the Assertive Community Treatment team. The Manager will ensure the programs are successfully meeting their mandates, while overseeing staff, operations, and future program growth. The Associate Director of Housing Services supports this position.
Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) is a client-centred, recovery-focused mental health service for people with serious and persistent mental health illnesses. ACTT services are delivered by multidisciplinary mental health staff who work as a team to provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to clients in achieving their goals. The team consists of a Psychiatrist, Registered Nurse, Social Worker, Peer Specialist, Addiction Specialist, Occupational Therapist, and Mental Health and Addiction Counsellors.
The Position
The Assertive Community Treatment Manager is responsible for supporting the multidisciplinary Assertive Community Treatment team direct reports, and housing resource information for the agency. The CMHA ACTT Manager provides supports to the team who are using Housing First, Harm Reduction and Psychiatric Rehabilitation approaches as well as other relevant clinical tools and methods of responding (i.e., Stages of Change, Carkhuff, Motivational Interviewing) to assist participants to gain skills and resources that assist them to choose, get and keep housing in the community. Other goal areas may include meaningful roles related to working, learning, and socializing. The ACTT Manager oversees staff responsible for procuring housing for participants in the community, building and maintaining relationships with property owners, and supporting the team in Eviction Prevention Planning. This work can be in office, in the community, homes, including homeless shelters.
The Qualifications
Required
- 3-year post-secondary degree in a human service- related discipline such as social work, psychology, or nursing. Eligible for registration in your professional designation
- Five years’ experience in a community-based mental health or addiction related setting
- Three years' demonstrated leadership experience
- Effective communication and comprehension of the English language
- Experience and demonstrated knowledge of Housing First approach
- Experience in leading change management processes with a view to increase and enhance program delivery
- Knowledge of Indigenous experiences of trauma and colonization and of cultural healing practices and resources
- Knowledge of issues related to poverty, homelessness, mental health, and addictions and of related systems and community services
- Clinical assessment and counselling skills
- Knowledge of the impact of stigma, and of the impacts of trauma
- Demonstrates competence in cultural safety and works effectively with individuals with various backgrounds
- Experience is community outreach and engagement
- Applicants must have both a recent satisfactory criminal record check and abuse registry checks
- A valid driver’s license and access to a reliable and Manitoba registered vehicle
- Legally entitled to work in Canada
- Acceptable work record
- Work hours require flexibility during operating hours of CMHA; 830 am - 830 pm with occasional evening and weekend coverage
Preferred
- Strong advocacy skills while remaining professional
- Training in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and experience in delivering recovery-oriented services Demonstrated knowledge of Stages of Change and Motivational Interviewing
- Ability to develop program proposals and funding requests
Please send a cover letter and a resume to employerrep@abcentre.org.
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