WAHA Job Board
2025-203 Regional Mental Health Clinician
Attawapiskat, Ontario, Canada .
contract . May 20, 2025
Description
Title: Regional Mental Health Clinician
Division: Integrated Indigenous and Specialized Community Services
Affiliation: Non-unionized
Location: Attawapiskat, ON
Reports to: Director of Mental Health & Addictions
Status: Term
The Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is looking for an experienced professional to fill the key role of Regional Mental Health Educator.
Life at WAHA
A beacon of healing, wellness, and innovation, WAHA connects remote communities with the care they deserve. With spellbinding views surrounding each site, team members bask in the tranquility of the land, juxtaposed against a bustling workplace busy addressing the complex needs of the region. Here, we work with purpose, knowing each action matters. Patients are neighbours, family, and colleagues. Each day brings a challenge- the good kind that stretches you, helps you grow, and makes you feel vital. These hurdles birth opportunities to problem solve, develop new skills, and explore new roles. Here, we step into a version of ourselves once forgotten, overshadowed by the daily grind, and rediscover a deep connection with ourselves, the land, and each other. Here, we experience work with wonder. #WeAreWAHA
What We Do
There has never been a more exciting time to be at WAHA. We are an integrated health system providing the full continuum of care to the six communities of the western James Bay coast with over 500 employees, physicians, and partners in care. As a health authority, you will work in a unique setting where you have the opportunity to care for patients in all phases of their life journey, in all areas of their health experience. From Primary, Acute, and Mental Health, Dental, Specialty Clinics, Population Health and the WAHA Paramedic Service, the opportunities for growth are boundless. We provide community-based programming in all six of our communities, have six paramedic bases, three hospitals, four emergency departments, one community health centre and a total of 72 beds. Our guiding goal is to be a centre of excellence in Indigenous and remote healthcare. To make this goal a reality, we have formed partnerships with other centres of excellence to remove barriers and eliminate the inequity of health services access that have long impacted the patients that we serve.
At WAHA, we are leading the way in health transformation. Come and immerse yourself in the local Cree culture, work with dedicated and passionate colleagues, and live in beautiful northern communities with amazing community members. Our mission is to provide optimum healthcare as close to home as possible. You can be part of this rewarding experience. Come and find your adventure in the north.
Who You Are
- Experience in assessment of clients with mental health and substance use concerns
- Direct service experience in delivery of mental health services
- Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
- Working knowledge of Mental Health Act and related legislation, mental health assessments, general counselling principles and interview techniques, crisis intervention, concurrent disorders, motivational interviewing, de-escalation techniques, and community resources and social services utilization.
- Experience working with First Nations people
What You’ll Do
- Provide culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health services to the population within WAHA’s catchment area
- Provide counselling specific to client needs
- Maintain counselling case load
- Process referrals and determine urgency of each referral
- Perform comprehensive psychosocial assessments for patients presenting with psychiatric symptoms that include suicidal ideation, psychosis, confusion including where substance abuse/dependence is a precipitant or compounding factor.
- Provides crisis intervention service for patients experiencing situational crises related to problems coping with chronic and serious mental illness, chemical dependency, primary support group, social environment, housing, finance and legal problems
- Develop treatment plans in consultation with clients that reflect their individual needs
- Implement and follow through with treatment plans based upon client needs
What You Bring
- Diploma in social service work or a related field required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work or a related field preferred
- Registration in good standing with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers or College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario
- Experience in assessment of clients with mental health and substance use concerns
- Effectively communicates both verbally and in writing
- Good interpersonal skills
- Willingness to travel as required by your employer
- Valid G license
Why Choose Us
- Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan
- Be part of an organization leading health transformation in the remote north
How to Apply
The successful candidate must provide a valid Vulnerable Sector Screen Check within a specified time frame.
Please apply in writing, providing three recent work references, quoting Competition #2025-203 to:
- For more information contact the HR team by email: jobs@waha.ca
- Only those selected for an interview will be contacted
- This position will remain open till filled
- Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Weeneebayko Area Health Authority, all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority is an inclusive employer. Accommodations are available in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights code and Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.