Registered Social Worker or Mental Health Nurse

About Calian

At Calian, we help organizations overcome obstacles, manage risks, and drive progress. Since 1982, we’ve grown from a small consulting firm into a trusted global company across defence, space, health, nuclear energy, public safety, and government.

We create innovative solutions that tackle complex challenges and help organizations and communities stay resilient, informed, and connected. If you’re driven by purpose and energized by solving real-world challenges, we want you on our team.

Job Type: Full Time

Calian is proud to continue a long-standing contractual relationship with the Department of National Defence (DND) to provide healthcare services to the Canadian Armed Forces. Through the Health Care Provider Contract, Calian employs health care professionals across Canada who are integral to supporting the health and wellbeing of our military members.

Position Overview

Calian is actively seeking a Registered Social Worker or a Mental Health Nurse to join our team, focusing on delivering exceptional mental health services to Canadian Armed Forces members at an exclusive outpatient clinic situated within Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.

This role presents a unique opportunity for a registered social worker with a passion for working with the military population, specializing in providing a range of services, including counseling, to address a variety of mental illnesses such as operational trauma and occupational health challenges. Your expertise will play a pivotal role in supporting the well-being of those who bravely serve our country.

This full-time position requires a commitment of 37.5 hours per week, operating within the clinic’s operational hours from Monday to Friday during daytime hours. We offer a competitive salary, paid vacation, and comprehensive benefits to ensure your well-being as you contribute to our mission.

Additionally, collaborating within a multi-disciplinary team environment, you’ll have the opportunity to exchange insights and strategies, enriching your professional development while collectively supporting the well-being of our armed forces members. If you’re seeking a fulfilling opportunity to make a tangible impact, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Managing crisis interventions and conducting risk assessments for individuals and families.
• Conducting intakes and completing bio-psychosocial assessments for a wide range of presenting issues such as work-related stress, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, suicide ideation, relationship struggles, family stress, somatic complaints, personality disorders and PTSD.
• Providing treatment through a variety of approaches including individual therapy, couples therapy, and group treatment therapy followed by evaluation of the treatment and therapeutic outcome.
• Presenting the clients’ care with recommendations to the inter-disciplinary healthcare teams to develop an individualized treatment plan.
• Analyzing the clients’ needs and provide information and advice to them and their families related to access to appropriate services and resources.
• Facilitating educational activities and group interventions such as pre-deployment briefings, psychosocial services overview presentations, and group psycho-education sessions.
• Implementing new interventions or treatment approaches such as telemedicine and virtual reality therapy.
• Distributing local outreach material such as mental health awareness material to bases and units.
• Creating and maintaining confidential client reports on treatment services.

Qualifications

To be eligible for this position you must meet all of the following:

• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in Social Work from a recognized university.
• Must have a minimum of 3 years post-graduate experience with an adult population administering assessments, creating treatment plans, and delivering counselling services to individuals, couples, and groups for a range of mental illnesses.
• Registration as a Social Worker with the provincial regulatory body in the province of practice.

Additional Requirements

• You will be able to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level.
• Current certification or willingness to obtain CPR Level C with AED.

Mental Health Nurse Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing from a recognized college or university
• A certificate in Mental Health Nursing or certification in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing from the Canadian Nursing Association, or
• Registered Psychiatric Nurses must, as a minimum possess:

A Bachelor of Science in Psychiatric Nursing or a Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing Degree from a recognized university

• 3 years of experience within the last 5 years in nursing practice performing a variety of mental health nursing activities such as supportive psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused therapy, counselling, and crisis intervention or management in an adult community setting to clients suffering from mental illnesses or psycho-social difficulties.
• A Registered Nurse license from the provincial college in the province of practice
• Current certification or willingness to obtain CPR Level C with AED

Additional Requirements

• You will be eligible to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level.

Compensation

$46-50 per hour. Based on skills and experience

Vacancy

We have one available position

AI Usage Disclosure

At Calian, we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen or evaluate candidates. AI tools may support backend administrative tasks, but they do not influence hiring decisions. All evaluations and decisions are made by real people on our recruitment team and hiring managers. All applicants are reviewed and only those chosen for an interview will be contacted by our recruiting team.

Security clearances

• A security clearance and/or vulnerable sector screening might be required for this position.
• Our recruiter will walk you through the security clearance requirement and process.