Join CASA Mental Health in shaping a brighter future for children, youth and families by providing them with timely mental health care and empowering them to thrive.
Job Details
Wage range: $43.17 to $55.39, plus an additional $9/hour CASA Classrooms premium
Shift structure: Monday to Friday, 7.25 hours/day
Primary location: CASA Fort Road (Edmonton)
Secondary location: Multisite
Union: In-scope
Classification: Mental Health Therapist
FTE: 0.87
Status: Permanent

About the Role
CASA Mental Health Classrooms are CASA's new model for school-based mental health service. The program addresses the need for services closer to students by bridging a child's mental health and school needs, through a coordinated approach by a mental health team and a teacher. CASA Classrooms are delivered in partnership with the Government of Alberta, community partners and school divisions.
The Mental Health Therapist will:

• Work with the CASA team and external supports to provide high-quality, trauma-focused mental health therapies to children, teens and families.
• Build specialized parenting skills for caregivers with children who have exceptional needs.
• Formulate diagnoses as appropriate, using the DSM-5-TR and other diagnostic tools.
• Conduct case management functions, including convening case conferences and liaising with CASA therapists and psychiatrists, community services and other professionals involved with the child and their family.
• Coordinate consultation with others therapists or external partners as appropriate.
• Supervise and/or precept student placements.
• Contribute to staff knowledge and understanding of discipline-specific issues.
• Participate in intake and admission process with the CASA Classroom team, Clinical Manager, Professional Practice Lead – Therapy and the Division Teacher.
• Lead daily debriefs with the team, participate in weekly case conferences and collaboratively build and supports transition planning.
• Co-facilitate parent support groups and multi-family therapy groups that are psycho-educational and/or psychodynamic in context.
• Make appropriate referrals to consulting services to inform treatment planning and diagnostic clarification.
• Complete written discharge summaries to referring therapist and/or psychiatrist after patient discharge to support continuity of care for the adolescent and family.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in psychology, social work or occupational therapy.
• A minimum of two years of clinical practice in child and family mental health and/or youth addictions.
• Active registration and in good standing with Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW), College of Alberta Psychologists (CAP) or Alberta College of Occupational Therapists (ACOT).

Conditions of Employment

• A satisfactory Criminal Records Check with Vulnerable Sector Search. This would be the financial responsibility of the successful candidate.
• A satisfactory Child Intervention Check.
• Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or exemption on the basis of a protected legal ground.

Closing Date: July 2, 2024
Please quote the following competition number in your application materials: 24-106. #MHT

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