The Youth Mental Health Promotion Worker (YMHPW) is responsible for CMHA Winnipeg’s overall youth mental health promotion initiative, which includes the research, design, and delivery of workshops and programming. The position will involve both school based and post-secondary mental health promotion programming, collaboration work with other agencies, and the maintenance and coordination of a youth speaker’s bureau. Communications activities will include engagement with both traditional media and social media platforms. This position will provide support to other CMHA branches throughout the province to support evidence based mental health promotion strategies and support capacity building throughout the CMHA organization.

A. Primary Accountabilities

1. Develop, maintain, and deliver mental health promotion, illness prevention and stigma reduction activities for youth.

• Assesses education and training needs for pre-determined target groups
• Researches, investigates and evaluates evidence-based and/or evidence-informed interventions and curricula being used elsewhere for suitability
• Develops workshops curricula when content not available to achieve specific learning objectives of groups
• Organizes workshop content
• Promotes mental health promotion and illness prevention opportunities
• Makes logistical arrangements
• Monitors and evaluates program activities

2. Develop and coordinate youth focused mental health promotion events and campaigns.

• Researches current evidence-based and/or evidence-informed mental health promotion activities targeted to youth including social marketing strategies.
• Works collaboratively with project partners such as school division, colleges and universities and youth service agencies.
• Organizes event/campaign content
• Promotes event/campaign opportunities
• Manages logistics of events/campaigns

3. Maintain and manage a speaker’s bureau for youth stigma reduction and mental health promotion activities

• Development of policies and guidelines
• Recruitment of speakers
• Training of speakers
• Coordination of speaker engagements
• Coordination of speaker recognition activities

B. Other Accountabilities

• Participates in agency events such as the annual meeting, planning sessions, and regular staff meetings
• Provides statistical data and prepares reports related to youth mental health promotion programs and activities
• Supports both internal and external program evaluation processes
• Represents the service area in the community and develops important alliances and partnerships including school divisions and post-secondary institutions.
• Operates general youth outreach strategies including agency social media
• Demonstrates competence in understanding cultural diversity and works effectively with individuals with various cultural backgrounds

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Technical Competencies

Education/Experience
This position requires a post-secondary degree or program in a human service related discipline such as social work, psychology, health promotion, sociology, nursing or education and over two years of experience in the following:

• Developing and implementing mental health promotion programming, especially targeted to youth
• Delivering workshops, especially targeted to youth
• Developing a range of printed materials in both English and French
• Delivering presentations in small and large groups settings
• Coordination of large events
• Working with diverse audiences and community partners
• Developing and implementing research and evaluation activities

Knowledge

• Knowledge of mental health and evidence based mental health promotion interventions
• Knowledge of the determinants of mental health as well as behavioural and contextual factors that influence children and youth mental health and social well-being
• Knowledge of mental illness and the impact of stigma on individual and community
• Knowledge of mental illness services
• Knowledge of child and youth mental health
• Knowledge of project management practices
• Knowledge of current audio/visual technology
• Knowledge of program evaluation

Skills

Administrative Skills:

• Establish plans
• Coordination of logistics
• Work efficiently
• Use computer software (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and existing & emerging social media tools.

Communication Skills:

• Bilingual French/English
• Prepare written communication
• Speak effectively
• Listen to others
• Deliver presentations
• Use current audio/visual/technology
• Provide effective feedback to speakers in program

Interpersonal Skills:

• Build relations
• Leverage networks
• Manage disagreements
• Value diversity

Organizational Skills:

• Understand the mental health and mental illness system in Winnipeg and Manitoba, especially the child and youth system and transitional supports
• Commit to quality
• Focus on the needs of youth being reached through this program.
• Focus on evidence based practices

Self-Management Skills:

• Act with integrity
• Demonstrate adaptability
• Develop oneself

Thinking Skills:

• Analyze issues
• Use sound judgment
• Innovate

Other:

• Must have a valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle
• Must have a recent satisfactory criminal records check and a recent satisfactory child abuse registry check

Salary range: $42,580.99 - $51,798.51 (after April 1, 2015: $43,006.80 - $52,316.50)

Please submit your resume and cover letter by Friday, March 20, 2015 to:

Bill Burrows, Manager,
Information and Education Services
CMHA Winnipeg Region
930 Portage Ave R3G 0P8
or fax to 982-6128
email: office at cmhawpg.mb.ca

Applicants are encouraged to indicate in their covering letter or resume if they are from any of the following groups: Aboriginal, Visible Minority, and/or Persons with a Disability. Employment equity is a factor in the hiring process.

We welcome all applications but only those being interviewed
will be contacted.