Competition Number: 3510

Clinical Intervention Specialist, Healing Homes

Perm/Full-Time

The Clinical Intervention Specialist works in collaboration with the Healing Home Supervisor, other professionals, youth, and families in supporting the healing process for youth within our programs. They are responsible for supporting the Healing Home Supervisor in staff development and are instrumental in developing Healing Plans directed towards youth and family goals. As well, the Clinical Intervention Specialist will work closely with the Healing Home Supervisor to support and contribute to the ongoing development of the program. The Clinical Intervention Specialist functions within a collaborative, strengths based, trauma informed, culturally responsive framework.

Primary responsibilities of the CIS include, but are not limited to:

Healing Plan Development and Implementation

• Takes a lead role, under the supervision of the Healing Homes Supervisors in supporting (and training) YCP’s in developing Healing Home plans for young people and families.
• Supports the Youth Care team in identifying how the purposeful use of daily life events will help the young person achieve their goals.
• Develop risk assessments and care planning in collaboration with the Healing Home Supervisor and Youth Care team. Support the Healing Home Supervisor in ensuring that Healing Plans are effectively implemented by the Youth Care team.
• Meet regularly with Healing Home teams and other involved professionals for the purposes of collaboration, planning and supporting the Healing Plan and daily life interaction/interventions.
• Support the Healing Home team in developing and maintaining plans for family contact, transition, discharge and age of majority planning for youth in placement.
• Participate in collaboration with the Healing Home Supervisor in the placement and discharge process and life plan meetings.
• Work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of the service – e.g., not a 9 – 5 schedule.
• Provide information to the Healing Home Manager to present at MYS Centralized Intake and Assessment for decision making regarding placement.
• Other duties as required.

Healing Homes Program Development and Quality Assurance Initiatives

• Engage in on-going supervision with the Healing Home Manager according to agency expectations.
• Monitor and re-evaluate risk assessments and care plans on an ongoing basis ensuring current risk is highlighted and support the Healing Home Supervisor in ensuring identified actions to meet goals are implemented.
• Attend team meetings and children and youth care planning meetings as directed by the Healing Home Manager to support staff and contribute to program development.
• Provide support to youth experiencing crisis, as necessary, or when emergency planning is required in conjunction with the Healing Home Team.
• Training and support of Youth Care Practitioners in developing and implementing Healing Plans.
• Ensuring Care planning documentation supports the Healing Plans.
• Facilitate groups within the homes, in conjunction with the Healing Homes Supervisor, to support identified needs of youth; Psycho-Education, social skills, anger management, healthy sexuality and/or provide assistance in identifying resources to meet youth’s identified needs.
• Provide on-going feedback to the Healing Home Manager on the everyday functioning of the programs according to agency expectations.
• Participates and attends relevant training as well as clinical consultation as required by Healing Home Manager.

The successful candidate should demonstrate the following competencies, which incorporate the Seven Sacred Teachings;

Bravery/Courage – Bear

• Continuously seek opportunities that benefit our youth by taking initiative and championing new ideas.
• Initiate creative planning and problem solving: be an advocate for positive change.
• Actively advocate for youth, both within the healing home and throughout the various systems that have an impact on the lives of our youth.
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt to changing circumstances or conditions with flexibility and compassion.

Respect – Buffalo

• Build positive and caring relationships with youth, focusing on meeting their needs in all four directions of the medicine wheel.
• Build positive and caring relationships with other staff members, based on mutual respect.
• Acknowledge and advocate for teachings and/or spiritual practices and beliefs, and incorporate them into daily living whenever possible.

Honesty – Saabe

• Perform with good intention, take responsibility, and follow through on commitments.
• Demonstrate effective communication by sharing information, asking questions, and active listening.
• Role model positive practices and ethics with an ability to represent the organization in a positive manner

Love – Eagle

• Role model healthy, caring, and respectful relationships.
• Recognize the gifts that all people bring and allow people to share those gifts, even if different from our own understanding
• Show an understanding of love in the form of appropriate and effective self-care strategies

Wisdom – Beaver

• Demonstrate a good understanding of the impacts of inter-generational and historical trauma, colonization and the impacts of residential schools.
• Demonstrate respect, knowledge, and awareness of Indigenous cultures, languages, traditions, and ways of being and knowing
• Demonstrate knowledge of the impacts of the Child and Family Services and Community Living Disability systems, particularly in the context of Indigenous communities

Humility – Wolf

• Understand that the youth come to us with complex histories, stories and needs. Demonstrate clear understanding of personal
  triggers and biases in order to not take the youth’s behaviours personally.
• Demonstrate critical self-reflection, an ongoing willingness to learn, and an understanding of power and privilege (race, ability, sexuality, gender, as staff members, etc.) and how our positionality impacts our work with our youth.

Truth – Turtle

• Gather relevant information, recognize patterns and themes in the data, generate and consider multiple alternatives and make decisions in a timely manner.
• Analytical and critical thinker, particularly in regard to engaging and planning with the youth.
• Actively ensure that all documentation and assessments reflect the truth of the youth and their lived experience

Qualifications:

• Post -Secondary degree in Human Services, Bachelor of Child and Youth Care or Social Work preferred
• Engages in a Child & Youth Care Approach
• Demonstrated on-going commitment to their own professional development
• 3 years’ experience in one or more of the following areas: child & youth care, child welfare, group care, risk assessment and safety planning
• Valid driver’s license
• Strong written and oral skills
• Microsoft Office at an Intermediate level
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and Non-Violent Crisses Intervention (NVCI)
• Knowledge of systems for children in care, school, family functioning and child welfare
• Willingness to obtain training as per MYS policy/agency required training
• Knowledge and understanding of the Circle of Courage
• Completed Daily Life Events (DLE) Training and Therapeutic Crisis Solution Training

Salary Range: Depending on qualifications per annum. MYS offers a comprehensive benefit and pension plan

Hours of Work: 70 hours bi-weekly. Successful applicants may be asked to work a variety of shifts including days, evenings, weekends and holidays.

Please forward a cover letter and resume (in word or PDF format) quoting the competition number by February 11, 2021 to careers@mys.mb.ca.

MYS is committed to providing a safe environment for children. All applicants will be thoroughly screened using background checks and a review process. MYS is an equal opportunity employer, committed to developing and retaining a diverse workforce including Indigenous people, women, visible minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. For further information about our other employment and volunteer opportunities, please visit our website www.mys.ca/careers.