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Reporting to the Health Manager, the Wellness worker will counsel and advise adult individuals with drug, alcohol, tobacco, or other problems, such as gambling and mental health disorders in a culturally responsive way. Utilizing culturally appropriate and trauma informed care may counsel individuals, families, groups, or engage in prevention programs. In delivering these services, the Wellness Worker utilizes a case management approach with collaboration with mental health counselors, medical staff and other supports within the Health Centre. The wellness worker will also be collaborative with community based organizations. The caseload tends to be varied, complex, demanding and often crisis orientated. The Wellness Worker will provide direct intervention or referral to appropriate service providers/programs, for client issues related to addictive patterns of behavior; concurrent disorders; and other mental health, behavioral and emotional concerns such as abuse, violence, grief and loss.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Additional Skills
- Use computer applications
- Perform administrative tasks
Specific Skills
- Prepare research papers, educational texts or articles
- Organize conferences and meetings
- Monitor health care programs
- Interpret trends and developments on health issues
- Provide advice to senior managers and officials
- Produce newsletters, magazines and other documents
- Produce reports
- Act as liaison within organization between staff and management around wellness issues
- Maintain, update and manage health information databases
- Coordinate workshops
- Conduct evaluations and assessments of health projects and programs
- Conduct interviews
- Develop people resources and networks for health information and other wellness issues
- Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
- Design and implement health and wellness projects or programs
Work Setting
- Health care institution
- Community organization
Research Experience
- Experimental or quantitative
Type Of Work Experience
- Public and community health
- Environmental and occupational health
- Health funding and resource allocation
- Health human resources planning
- Health promotion
Program Experience
- Mental health
- Personal life management
- Behaviour disorders
- Smoking
- Addiction or substance abuse
- Pharmaceutical use
Area of Medical Specialization
- Psychology
- Toxicology
- Behavioural science
Area of Functional Expertise
- Regulation or legislation policy interpretation and implementation
- Public education or information programming
- Public relations or communications
- Program administration or operations management
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