St. Thomas, ON, Canada

Part Time

Entry Level

Transitional Case Manager, Addictions
Direct Service Regulated - (OPSEU)
Part-Time, Contract (Approximately 12 months)

St. Thomas, Ontario (Elgin Zone)

- Application Deadline: January 1, 2026 -

As a Transitional Case Manager, Addictions, you will play a vital role in transforming the way individuals access addiction support during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Using a compassionate psychosocial model of care, you’ll help streamline access and bridge the gap between hospital and community, ensuring that no one faces recovery alone.

Through crisis intervention, brief transitional case management, and system navigation, you will provide addiction and mental health services in a collaborative manner to support clients in achieving greater stability while helping reduce avoidable, unnecessary and repeat emergency department visits.

In this role, you will support a combination of referral sources from a hospital setting including, but not limited to, hospital staff through both the general referral pathway accessed by doctors, occupational therapists, social workers, and other healthcare providers as well as the Addiction Medicine Consult Service (where these roles are often referred to as Addiction Medicine Navigators).

This role includes a connection to the St. Thomas shelter, The INN, once a week. The INN is a 40-bed low barrier housing program focused on emergency shelter offering an overnight accommodation.

Consider revitalizing your career and making a difference in your community by joining our team!

WHAT WE'RE OFFERING:

• What you'll be making - Starting rate for this role is $27.14 per hour (Level 1 – Direct Service), with a wage differential, based on regulation ( $30.01 per hour for Level 1 – Direct Service, Regulated):

  • Successful candidates who are registered with one of the designated professional colleges (e.g. OCSWSSW, CNO, COTO, CRPO, CPSO, or CPO) will receive the wage differential for regulation
  • Successful external applicants will start at Level 1, with grid progression based on seniority up to Level 8 ($34.41 per hour for non-regulated, and $37.26 per hour for regulated); for internal applicants, grid level placement will occur as per the Collective Agreement

• When you'll work – 14 hours bi-weekly; 8:30am-4:30pm; 1-hour unpaid lunch

• What your benefits will be – 9% in lieu of benefits

• Your pension plan –Immediately eligible for optional enrolment in the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)

HOW YOU WILL BE MAKING A DIFFERENCE:

Key Duties:

• Share in the provision of face-to-face Entry / First Contact / Intake Services as well as using virtual technology and clinical conferencing
• Provide a quick response to urgent situations as they arise
• Provide intervention and short-term support to individuals experiencing an addiction or mental health crisis
• Facilitate early linkage with internal programs and/or other agencies and/or supports i.e. family, neighbours etc. by communicating and coordinating relevant information and providing case management services until linkages are created
• Provide screening for addiction and mental health issues and assessment of appropriateness of service
• Provide addiction and mental health screening, referrals for psychiatric consultation, mental health supports and referrals to community resources
• Provide and facilitate referrals to addiction resources as appropriate
• Provide referrals to all appropriate social and health related services based on client wishes
• Offer harm reduction strategies as well as abstinence strategies based on client’s intentions and stated needs
• Provide discharge planning and support
• Deliver appropriate level of navigational support based on client capacity
• Share information about health and community/social services and link clients to same
• Provide assessment, treatment planning, referral, advocacy, preliminary case management, community treatment and education as appropriate to persons who have concerns about their own substance use or someone else’s. Counselling may be on an individual or group basis
• Facilitate community treatment groups as needed and appropriate
• Engage in advocacy and system transformation as appropriate
• Provide the above-mentioned clinical services at various points of access and other locations as designated and needed
• Manage and meet targets for a clinical caseload and maintain direct service requirements
• Manage indirect services and administrative duties
• Engage in community development, community awareness, education and outreach as designated and appropriate
• Maintain awareness of and adherence to agency policies and protocols
• Establish a caring and therapeutic relationship with clients; demonstrating trust, respect, and honesty
• Promote decisions/actions that are consistent with a culture that values client-centred care
• Demonstrate ability to deal effectively with sensitive issues with clients and families using a harm-reduction and trauma-informed approach
• Support inclusion and equity by respecting others, embracing diversity and addressing oppression
• Actively participate in the supervisory process with immediate supervisor and site supervisor
• Engage in and complete special projects as assigned by the supervisor
• Other duties as directed by supervisor

The INN Specific Duties;

• Attend The INN once a week on a scheduled day to engage with individuals, build rapport, identify needs within the scope of Addictions and Mental Health
• Work closely with staff from The INN to identify individuals who might need connections and referrals to CMHA services
• Participate in coordinating care with other health providers promoting an integrated care approach Promote CMHA adjunct services with staff and share new initiatives/resources that are available

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO APPLY:

Police Vulnerable Sector Check Requirements
Successful candidates must have a Police Vulnerable Sector Check completed in the last six months. Interested applicants who reside in the City of London and are in need of a Police Vulnerable Sector Check (PVSC) are encouraged to apply for one as soon as possible as PVSCs in the City of London are currently taking approximately 2 weeks to be processed and offers of employment cannot be made without receipt of a PVSC.

We require the following qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in a related field, e.g. BSW, MSW, post-graduate diploma in addictions or equivalent (primary proof of credentials will be required during the hiring process i.e. original degree/diploma or official transcript)
• Valid driver’s licence and access to a vehicle with adequate insurance to carry out job duties

We prefer the following qualifications:

• Excellent knowledge of community resources in the region relevant to clients, including other mental health and addiction services, entitlement and benefit programs (e.g. ODSP, Ontario Works, London Housing)

• Knowledge of range of crisis prevention and intervention approaches including crisis prevention strategies, crisis planning, crisis intervention, risk assessment, relapse prevention strategies, crisis services and hospital services

• Knowledge of mental health and addiction, and their impact on clients

• Knowledge of the bio-psychosocial approach to understanding addictions and mental illness and co-occurring issues

• Working knowledge of assessment, treatment, intervention, and support tools and strategies

• Familiarity with a Harm Reduction approach to client engagement and treatment

• Knowledge of WHMIS, fire, health, and safety procedures

• Clinical work experience ideally in substance use assessment and treatment including intake services, referral and treatment planning

• Experience working with community and health care organizations and leveraging community resources to coordinate healthcare and support services

• Experience in crisis intervention/management and crisis resolution

• Experience conducting complex assessments and treatment plans (including safety plans)

• Regulated Professional

• NVCI and ASIST trained

• Training to administer Naloxone

• Current First Aid and CPR certification Bilingual both official languages, preferred; préférence sera accordée aux candidats qui sont compétents dans les deux langues officielles du Canada

INTERNAL APPLICANTS: To be considered as an internal applicant, current staff members are reminded to apply using their @cmhatv.ca or @slwar.ca email address.

Get your application in by – January 1, 2026

Our recruitment process allows us to learn about your previous work experience, your qualifications and your commitment to fulfilling our vision. While we appreciate the interest of all applicants, only those individuals being considered for a position will be personally contacted by someone from the interview team.

We welcome and encourage applications from all members of our community including persons of any gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, persons with disabilities, Indigenous persons, and members of visible minorities. If you require accommodations related to a disability at any point during the recruitment process, please contact Human.Resources@cmhatv.ca

Legal Notifications:

• For legal purposes our full business name is: Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services
• Artificial Intelligence is not currently employed in our recruitment processes