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Job title: Social Worker 2
Company: CAMH
Job description: The Mood and Anxiety Service is currently seeking a full-time, permanent Social Worker 2 position to work within the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program (OSP) Team. This interprofessional team works with other stakeholders to improve access to structured psychotherapy and increase the availability of evidence-based psychological treatments for individuals with mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety in Ontario. The OSP team provides evidence based individual and group-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) within CAMH and off-site at community locations including primary care.
The Social Worker 2 roles will provide cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) treatment to clients with mood, anxiety, concurrent disorders and trauma experiences. As a member of an interprofessional team, you will provide structured client-centered psychiatric care. You will work in partnership with clients, their formal and informal supports and the team to support clients’ successful integration into their communities. You will be expected to facilitate group programming (including CBT modalities), manage referrals and triage processes, and offer individual support to clients currently attending the service. Your skills include the ability to make behavioral observations, mental status assessments, monitoring of clients’ responses to care interventions and documentation and ongoing communication with other team members and primary care partners. You have a sound knowledge of emergency psychiatry, crisis intervention, recovery, addiction issues and severe and persistent mental illness. You will liaise with community health care providers, both within and outside CAMH. Collaborations with community organizations and primary care sites to deliver CBT may also be required. You will be expected to participate in professional development, including completion of required coursework and consultation. You must be capable of providing supervision to social work students and contributing to the development of best practices unique to mental health and concurrent disorder treatment. You will be expected to contribute to program development, research and educational activities of the service. You will support a workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all the applicable regulatory and legislative requirements. This position will involve providing clinical services in the day, evening and weekends and is located at the Queen Street Site.
Social Worker 2 – CONTROLLED ACT OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Qualifications
The successful candidate must have a Master of Social Work and be a member, in good standing, with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW), with a combination of three (3) years’ of post-graduate psychotherapy experience working in a mental health/addiction setting. The candidate must be able to provide evidence of the OCSWSSW Checklist for competence to perform the controlled act of psychotherapy. Candidates must have experience utilizing CBT, and preference will be given to those who hold certificates/certification. DBT is an asset. The candidate must also have received 3 years of entry-to-practice clinical supervision, plus 2-3 years (or 2000-3000 hours) of supervised experience in performing the controlled act of psychotherapy for the interventions required of the role. Social Work incumbents requiring further clinical supervision to be able to perform controlled act of psychotherapy must have this formal relationship pre-arranged by the clinical program, as a condition of hire, based on capacity. The successful candidate must be eligible for an adjunct faculty appointment with faculties of Social Work that have affiliation agreements with CAMH.
Please Note: This full-time, permanent position is part of the OPSEU Bargaining Unit.
Salary Range: $35.42 – $47.73 per hour
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CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto and is a teaching hospital and research institute. As a CAMH employee, you will be expected to actively support CAMH’s teaching and research activities, in addition to supporting the clinical work of the hospital.
At CAMH, we strive to be an equitable and inclusive employer. Our commitment to equity is grounded in an institution-wide commitment to achieving a working, teaching, and learning environment that is free of discrimination and harassment.
CAMH actively seeks candidates from First Nations, Métis and Inuit, racialized and LGBTQ2+ communities, women, and people with disabilities (including people who have experienced mental health and substance use challenges).
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Expected salary: $35.42 – 47.73 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Job date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 22:57:18 GMT
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