Lifeskills Support Worker Mental Health

Support client wellbeing and independent living with Northern Health using psychosocial rehabilitation principles and a harm reduction approach. Work Monday to Friday, days, from 08:30 to 16:30.

As a Life Skills Worker 2, you will support clients within Mental Health and Addictions services. Under a Manager or designate, you will work within an assigned program and multidisciplinary team. Your practice will address physical, social, and emotional development while supporting community living.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure client wellbeing within the assigned program
• Promote independent living in the community
• Provide support using psychosocial rehabilitation principles
• Teach skills that support clients' development
• Reduce potential hospitalization and incarceration

Requirements:

• Knowledge, skills, and abilities as a lifeskills support worker
• Ability to support serious and persistent mental illness
• Ability to address addictions issues
• Understanding of harm reduction approaches
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team

Bring lifeskills support, psychosocial rehabilitation, and harm reduction knowledge to Northern Health's Mental Health and Addictions services.

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