[B] Mental Health Support Worker - AgeCare Mount Royal

Bloom Limited Partnership; Calgary; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

AgeCare Mount Royal in Calgary, AB is seeking a part-time Mental Health Support Worker for our new Long Term Care, Mental Health specialty program. You will join an interdisciplinary team to support residents 18+ with complex mental health needs.

Using a strengths-based approach, you will foster well-being, stability, and social reintegration, build rapport, and report unsafe behaviors. This role emphasizes resident-centered care and collaborative planning.

Qualifications

• Provides care and support to mental health residents in a LTC setting.
• Works with an interdisciplinary team to support residents’ mental health needs.
• Capacity to build rapport and support residents in problem solving and social integration.
• Embraces a resident-centered approach and collaborates on care planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide behaviour and symptom support to mental health residents aged 18+ in a LTC setting.
• Foster residents’ overall well-being, psycho-social recovery, stability, and community reintegration.
• Build rapport to support problem solving, competencies, and social integration.
• Report unsafe activities or behaviours that may pose risk to residents or others.

Job description

The Opportunity:

The Mental Health Support Worker, working in our new Long Term Care, Mental Health specialty program, will work as a member of the interdisciplinary team, collaborating and supporting the residents in delivering support to residents who are 18+ with complex mental health needs.

Key Responsibilities

• As a key part of the interdisciplinary team and in collaboration with the Resident Care Manager, Social Worker and Occupational Therapist, you will provide behaviour & symptom support to mental health residents, 18 years and older


• Using a strength based approach, foster residents’ overall well-being, psycho-social recovery, stability and community re-integration


• Using your ability to build rapport, support and facilitate the development of residents problem solving, competencies and social integration


• Become part of a resident-centered environment


• Report any unsafe activities or behaviours that may cause harm or injury to the resident or others

Work Location

Agecare Mount Royal

Address: 1813 9ST SW, Calgary, AB T2T 3C2

FTE: 0.60

Employment Type: Part Time

About AgeCare

Since 1998 AgeCare has been dedicated to creating vibrant communities that celebrate and support aging with dignity, independence and community interaction for seniors.

We offer our residents a safe and secure home-like atmosphere where they and their families can be assured peace of mind.

Guiding Principles

• Trust: Act with integrity and fairness


• Respect: Treat everyone with dignity, kindness, and compassion


• Quality: Relentlessly pursue excellence in care and service


• Teamwork: Uplift each other with positive energy and support