Mental Health Clinician – 30 hours/week – 12 month contract

Overview

The Mental Health Clinician is an integral part of a multidisciplinary team who provides psychosocial assessment, a range of psychosocial/psychiatric treatments/interventions, psychosocial health education, and advocacy on behalf of rostered and referred patients within the Family Health Team. This is a 12 month contract working 30 hours/week with the Peterborough Community FHO.

Responsibilities

Clinical:

• Provides bio-psychosocial assessment of individual patients and their families
• Coordinates referrals and facilitates access to other health care providers and community organizations
• Initiates and provides a variety of psychotherapeutic, and psycho-educational treatments
• Individual sessions are by phone, virtual and/or in-person and groups may be virtual or in-person
• Assists in overcoming barriers within the healthcare system to ensure timely delivery of services
• Monitors patient goals and outcomes through ongoing assessment and documentation of treatment progress
• Participates in treatment planning with other team members as required
• Facilitates clinical groups and services when needed
• Provides cognitive behavioural and supportive therapy to identified patients as required to effect change
• Consults with team members and external professionals involved in the care of patients as required
• Liaises and consults with other agencies/programs/services as required
• Participates in case presentations/reviews and discussions from the mental health perspective within the team
• Advocates on behalf of patients in their care

Administrative:

• Maintains an organized appointment schedule
• Monitors and manages referrals from the team
• Maintains workload measures data as required
• Participates in evaluations processes as required
• Maintains up-to-date charting on the patient within the team medical record
• Completes documentation required to facilitate care for the patient (reports, referrals, forms, etc)
• Actively participates in the functioning of the team (business meetings, CQI, etc.)
• Participates in mental health program planning and development within the team or externally as appropriate in order to facilitate integration of services
• Regular attendance to all FHT/FHO meetings is mandatory.

 Educational:

• Maintains current discipline specific standards of practice in line with the professional college
• Establishes and implements an annual plan for professional development in order to maintain evidence-informed clinical skills
• Participates in local educational presentations
• Accesses formal/informal supervision or peer consultation
• Maintains awareness and understanding of current Mental Health legislation and Privacy legislation

Other Related Duties:

• Contributes to the team by performing related tasks as required
• Complies with all Privacy Legislation
• Assists in training and orientation of new staff
• Demonstrates basic computer skills or willing to learn

Hours of Work:

Hours of service are pre-established per employment agreement and may require some evenings and weekends. Any deviation from the established schedule shall not negatively impact upon the provision of service to the patient population.

Qualifications

• 3+ years clinical experience in the community
• Master of Social Work or M.ED/MA in Counselling Psychology
• OCSWSSW or CRPO registration
• Experience leading groups is an asset
• Addition training/experience also considered an asset:
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
  • Trauma Informed Approach
• Comfort level and experience working with issues across a broad spectrum
• Other degrees will be considered; however, you must belong to a related professional college.

Additional benefits of joining the Peterborough Family Health Team

• A provincial leader among Family Health Teams in Ontario
• Excellent team/office environment
• Multidisciplinary team expertise
• PFHT provides clinical supervision
• Organizational commitment to work-life balance
• HOOPP Pension Plan

The Peterborough Family Health Team are leaders in advocating for full vaccination against the COVID-19 virus and its variants, for persons who are medically able to receive the vaccination. All applicants should know that PFHT employees are expected to support this position.

Interested candidates can email their resume and cover letter to resumes@peterboroughfht.com by the application deadline.

• Application deadline: April 9, 2025
• Hours: .8 FTE – 30 hrs/week, Monday to Friday
• Expected start date: June 9, 2025
• Job type: 12 month contract
• Salary: $71,234 to $77,844 per year based on full-time equivalent

The Peterborough Family Health Team is actively committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. The Peterborough Family Health Team offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment processes. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.