JOB DESCRIPTION – IN-HOME SUPPORT PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH WORKER
Full-Time Position – One Year Contract
(35 hours per week)
DATE APPROVED: January 23, 2025
JOB TITLE: In-Home Support Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Worker
REPORTS TO: Supervisor of Perinatal Mental Health Programs
HOURS: 35 hours per week. This position requires flexing of hours and possible evening or week-end work to accommodate program and client needs. There is no paid overtime provided with this position.
LOCATION: This position is primarily based at the Midnapore Centre but involves regular travel to the agency’s other Centres and off-site meetings in the community.
JOB PURPOSE: The In-Home Support PMH Worker supports the Families Matter vision by ensuring that families we support are building confidence, competence, and connection. The purpose of this role is to support caregivers by providing home-based support to families with children ages 0-2 to promote healthy child development; caregiver capacity-building; family resilience; and community connections. This position will also facilitate a PPD Group once a week as part of the 35 hours. This service is offered city wide, within the city limits of Calgary.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Educational and professional requirements
- A degree or diploma in a Human Services field is required with a minimum of 2 years of experience working with families within perinatal period.
- This position requires the completion of a Criminal Record Check and a Child Intervention Record Check with results that are satisfactory to the employer. Both Checks must be renewed by the employee before their expiry every three (3) years.
Knowledge, Experience and skills requirements
- Experience providing support to families with complex needs.
- Knowledge of the Perinatal Mental Health spectrum of illness.
- Experience facilitating a Peer lead Postpartum support group.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Utilizing a client database and tracking assessment and outcome data for families served.
- Proficient computer skills.
- Ability to work in a very organized, accurate and detail-oriented way.
- Self-directed, and able to take initiative.
- Having experience parenting young children while navigating mental health struggles is an asset.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and use of own vehicle.
TRAINING QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- ASQ & ASQ-SE Developmental Screening
- Strengthening Families Approach
- Standard First Aid with CPR Level B
- Suicide Awareness and Intervention
- Indigenous Awareness (minimum 8 hours per year)
- Diversity Competence (minimum 4 hours per year)
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Serve families in Calgary as assigned.
- Establish and maintain a supportive and mentoring relationship with complex families by providing regular services through weekly in-home visits.
- Provide targeted group-based Perinatal Mental Health support and learning opportunities for families.
- Use skills to address identified family concerns and implements effective interventions with families, utilizing advanced strength-based, solution focused strategies. Implement assessment tools including Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), Outcome STAR, Perinatal Anxiety Screening Scale (PASS), Parent Assessment of Protective Factors (PAPF), and others to support family goal setting.
- Act as a liaison between families and other community agencies and promote family resilience and self-sufficiency.
- Establish and implement a family support plan with goals, strategies and activities developed with parents. Ensure these documentations are completed on time and kept up to date.
- Utilize developmental assessment tools (ASQ3/ASQ-SE and DSP) for children and make recommendations to parents to support optimal child development.
- Assist parents with referrals to community services and resources required.
- Maintain best practice, a high quality of service, and ensure that your work is fully compliant with provincial home visitation standards.
- Ensure complete and accurate data entry into the agency’s client database.
- Work cooperatively as part of the Perinatal Mental Health Team and act as back-up for other Perinatal Mental Health Workers.
- Work collaboratively with Calgary Region and key community stakeholders.
- Other related duties as assigned by the Society.
Peer Mentor Responsibilities:
- Debrief with Peer Volunteers on an as needed basis.
- Support Peer Volunteers in connecting to appropriate resources for families when needed.
- Relevant program data entry as delegated by direct supervisor.
- Run monthly group supervisions with Peer Volunteers.
- Quarterly Team Gatherings coordinated with support of direct supervisor.
Salary: $48,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year
Application Deadline: August 29, 2025
We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, we will only contact those invited for an interview.
Please send a cover letter and resume to Lisa Farrell, Supervisor PMH Programs at: [email protected]
For more information about the Families Matter Society, please visit: www.familiesmatter.ca
