Description:
As a member of the inter-professional team, the Mental Health Clinician role will involve clinical care coordination, patient care, and program development and capacity building for older adults and their care-partners. The Mental Health Clinician scope of practice will include the provision of clinical triage, mental health intake assessments and treatment, case management, and community resource connection within a framework of integrated care. This will also include the provision of group therapy.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical triage, care coordination, and disposition planning for older adults and their care partners facing a broad range of mental health challenges, including dementia
- Contribute to comprehensive geriatric mental health assessments with the goal of formulating care plans that promote integration of care between patients, the inter-professional team, home-based supports, and the patient’s social and community networks
- Utilizes comprehensive knowledge of senior’s mental health and addiction, social, and home-based interventions to facilitate linkages and referrals to local programs across a broad range of sectors
- Provide patient and family centered psychiatric care, including safety assessments and crisis interventions, focused therapeutic interventions, and family focused interventions with emphasis on recovery, education, and supporting quality of life
- Provide both individual and group treatments in various modalities with evidence for geriatric populations
- Promote and support a trauma-informed, equity centered patient care approach
- Contribute to program development, provide education and support to learners from all disciplines
- Performs other duties consistent with job classification, as required
- Successful completion of a Master’s degree in a health-related discipline, including Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or related clinical discipline or Bachelors of Nursing. Additional training in geriatric psychiatry and/or medicine is preferred
- Registration and current membership in good standing with a relevant regulatory college
- Minimum 3 years relevant clinical work experience in a mental health setting. Recent clinical experience with the geriatric population is preferred
- Demonstrated knowledge of psychiatric conditions and clinical competence in providing mental health assessments and clinical triage, preferably within a geriatric population
- Experience with evidence-based therapy interventions, crisis intervention skills, and family interventions for treatment of mood, anxiety, psychotic, trauma, substance use and cognitive disorders
- Knowledge of system resources and system navigation interventions across the health and social services spectrum for older adults
- Excellent organizational, communication, time management and interpersonal skills, along with ability to work effectively as a team member in a dynamic, inter-professional environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of the Ontario Mental Health Act, the Substitute Decisions Act, the Health Care Consent Act and PHIPA requirements
- Ability to utilize information technology
- Proactively able to identify opportunities for and make continuous process improvement to prevent harm and improve patient outcomes
- Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance
- Demonstrated commitment to collaborative practice
- Strong decision making, problem recognition, problem solving skills and conflict resolution skills
- Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance history