Specialist, Psychological Health and Wellness (Region of Peel)

Specialist, Psychological Health and Wellness - Human Services

Status : Contract Full Time - 13 months duration

Salary Range : $89,469 - $111,834 per year plus comprehensive benefits

Work mode : Hybrid * see below for more details about this work mode.

Location : 10 Peel Centre Drive, Brampton

Hours of work : 35 hours per week

Deadline : May 3, 2024

We are seeking a Psychological Health and Wellness Specialist that will be responsible for working collaboratively with internal clients and stakeholders to develop, cultivate and strengthen organizational psychological health and wellness at the Region of Peel through the adoption of the National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.

This role will support the Human Services Department.

Some of the key functions of this role will be providing expert advice on psychological health and wellness, facilitating working groups through project initiatives, raising mental health awareness and increase staff engagement in psychological health and safety programs as a means of reducing stigma.

You will work to ensure corporate projects use a psychological health and safety lens throughout the project life cycle and ensure psychological health and wellness concepts and principles are applied to departmental programs.

This will also include providing input into the development of such policies and standard operating procedures.

Utilizing your skills and expertise, you will research, develop and advocate for processes and innovative, human-centric practices that respond to the issue or project, and support mental health and corporate wellness.

Lastly, you will provide support on knowledge and skill building in the areas of psychological health and safety and resiliency training for leaders and employees.

What the role requires :

• University degree or equivalent work experience in a health-related discipline
• A minimum of 5 years of related and progressive experience in workplace psychological health and wellness
• Knowledge of current trends and emerging issues related to workplace psychological health and wellness
• Periodic Travel may be required

Skills / Abilities :

• Excellent facilitation skills with sound knowledge of various facilitation techniques
• Demonstrated ability to provide facilitate change and engage in continuous improvement
• Demonstrated project and change management skills
• Strong analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision benefit plan (effective start date)
• Automatic enrolment into OMERS pension plan
• Accrue Vacation on a monthly basis; up to 3 weeks per annum
• 3 Paid personal days and floating holidays (non-union)
• Flexible hours supporting your wellness and wellbeing (non-union)
• Annual performance review and merit increases based on performance
• Supportive leadership and a culture of respect and inclusion
• Access to tuition reimbursement (where applicable) and learning and development resources

In this role you will have the ability to work remotely and attend on-site at various locations across the Region of Peel.

The frequency of on-site activities is based on operational requirements. Your remote work location must be located within the province of Ontario.

The Region of Peel offers job based flexible hours of work that allows employees to manage personal and professional responsibilities while at the same time ensures business operational needs and customer service expectations are achieved.

Interview : Our recruitment process will be completed with video conference technology.

If this opportunity matches your qualifications and experience, please visit our website and apply on-line

As part of the Region’s ongoing commitment to health and safety, there are enhanced COVID-19 specific safety protocols and / or personal protective equipment requirements (e.

g. masks, eye protection, etc.) in place to help protect health and safety. The additional requirements are determined based on the nature of the work being carried out.