Responsibilities
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- Support and deliver the development and implementation of multi-staged interventions centered on strengthening child and family mental wellness. Continuum to include prevention, early intervention, clinical and tertiary intervention, and continuing care.
- Provide clinical mental health services to children/youth, in individual, family, and/or group contexts.
- Collaborate with and support community and regional service providers in delivering programs and services for child and youth mental health, with a particular focus on trauma-informed, family-centered, strengths-based, harm-reducing, and holistic approaches which span the continuum of prevention, early intervention, clinical and tertiary intervention, and continuing care.
- Support and deliver programming materials, resources, and trainings which incorporate cultural and traditional approaches with best and promising practices for child, youth, and family mental health and wellbeing, including consideration for the specific context and needs of Nunatsiavut children and youth. Resources developed to include health promotion messaging, workshops and guidebooks for community programming, and materials for child, youth and family mental health therapeutic services particularly early intervention and continuing care.
- In collaboration with the Child & Youth Mental Health Clinical Lead, provide specialized training and clinical consultation/direction to community and regional staff and professionals working with children, youth, and families. Focus to be on interventions to achieve mental wellness and social-emotional learning for children and youth, including prevention, early intervention, clinical/tertiary intervention, and continuing care.
- Liaise with pertinent specialists, service providers, and knowledge holders to ensure that all mental health programming and services delivered to Nunatsiavut children and youth incorporate best and promising clinical practices with cultural and community wisdom.
- Advocate and coordinate for the enhanced delivery of specialist mental health services for children and youth in Nunatsiavut, including close collaboration with specialists based elsewhere within the province and country to increase regularity of access to services and collaboration with community supports to ensure the delivery of care plans.
- Maintain current knowledge of issues, trends, and best practices within the child, youth, and family mental health fields, particularly related to northern/remote and Indigenous populations.
- As needed, support the delivery of clinical services to children, youth, and families.
- Incorporate holistic wellness approaches such as: expressive arts, psychodrama, meditation, land-based/cultural activities, Elders, etc. into therapeutic environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree is Social Worker and eligibility for registration with the Newfoundland Labrador Association of Social Workers or Canadian Certified Counsellor.
- Demonstrated clinical expertise in child and youth mental health, preferably in an Indigenous context (minimum 3 years).
- Knowledge of family-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, holistic approaches
- Ability to work flexible hours and travel
- Other duties as required
Assets
- Bilingual in English and Inuktitut
Benefits
- Competitive Paid Leave Package
- Travel Benefit
- Labrador Allowance
- Group insurance including health and dental
- Group pension
Department: Health and Social Development
Location: Nunatsiavut (Nain, Hopedale, Makkovik, Postville or Rigolet) or Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL
Term: Temporary Full-time (3 years)
Closing Date: September 12, 2025
How to Apply:
Please submit your resume to careers@nunatsiavut.com.
Applications should be submitted before 4:30 pm on closing day.