As part of our commitment to providing a responsive and inclusive system, mental health and substance use services include short-term assessment and treatment, long-term programs for those with a serious and persistent mental illness, seniors' mental health services as well as substance use prevention and treatment services. Services are available in a variety of settings including community clinics, hospitals, the specialized settings for intensive treatment, long-term care settings, family doctors' offices, urban health centres and on an outreach basis.
Our teams of mental health professionals are highly skilled and collaborate with other agencies, programs and experts to provide the best quality service and support to our clients. Our mental health programs are designed to support clients in their recovery while ensuring health care is provided in a culturally safe and sensitive way.
It’s an exciting time to be in MHSU. A lot of work is being done to reduce stigma and barriers that prevent people from seeking treatment. Through our continued response to the opioid overdose emergency and our contribution to the redesign of primary and community care, we have the opportunity to make such a difference in our communities.
Mental Health and Substance Use Jobs
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This position provides services within a psychosocial rehabilitation and harm reduction framework for the assigned client population(s) with severe mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders as well as provides support to clients in the development and maintenance of the skills required to live successfully in their own homes. The Community Mental Health Worker is expected to engage clients in various community settings as people with full potential and as meaningful collaborators in their own service planning, delivery and evaluation.
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Life Skills Workers play an important role in care. They plan, observe, monitor and report on clients’ progress and level of acceptance to services and support. They assist clients with activities associated with daily living and work to demonstrate and model appropriate behaviors related to problem solving and decision-making.
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The Community Mental Health Life Skills Worker contributes to a supportive and empowering environment that will enhance the resident’s recovery. Within a specialized residential care environment, this position facilitates the clients’ movement toward independent living, through the maintenance/cleanliness of the facility and engaging in daily activities with the clients that are established through the Clients’ care plan.
View all Mental Health and Substance Use Counselling & Treatment Clinician Jobs
The day-to-day aspect of this position ensures that persons with serious acute mental health problems and or problematic substance use issues have access to timely, responsive, evidence based short term treatment and clinical supports across the continuum of available services. The Counselling & Treatment Clinician provide individual and group counselling. Clinicians provide, at the advanced practice level, assessment, treatment, service coordination and client-centred care as part of a larger interdisciplinary health care team.
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The Mental Health & Substance Use Worker functions as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, whose purpose is to ensure that adults with serious mental disorders and/or substance use have access to responsive, sensitive and relevant assessment and treatment services. The program serves the adult and elderly population that experiences mental health disorders or substance use and impairment in personal, family, financial, occupational and/or social life. This includes individuals with acute psychosis, bizarre behavior, depression, anxiety, complicated grief, suicidal ideation, substance use, substance dependence and concurrent disorders.
View all Registered Psychiatric Nurse Jobs
Registered Psychiatric Nurses are trained as critical thinkers, problem solvers, and decision-makers to provide safe and competent care to patients. They are strong advocates for their patients, in a shared partnership to ensure they get the best care to improve their health.
The Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides assessment, treatment, case management, community support, and as required, urgent response to clients who may also have serious functional impairment in the domains of physical health and personal, family, financial, occupational, and social life. The Registered Nurse functions as a primary clinician utilizing a variety of specialized treatment modalities/therapies for individuals, groups of clients and/or their families.
View all Rural & Remote Adult MHSU Nurse Jobs
The Rural & Remote Adult Mental Health & Substance Use Nurse works as an integral part of an integrated mental health and substance use service. The Nurse provides urgent outreach, responsive assessment and treatment, case management, GP shared care, education, and support to individuals experiencing acute and/or chronic mental illness and/or problem substance use.
A lot of times people feel at a loss like there is nowhere to go or nobody who can help. Sitting down with a patient and helping them feel comfortable, safe and heard is incredibly rewarding. There is an incredible mental health team at Interior Health.
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Party more safely this holiday season with these tips from our Harm Reduction team.
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Meet Sue Raymer, president the of the Castlegar & District Hospital Foundation, and learn more about her and her fundraising journey in Castlegar.
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Stephenie has lived in Vancouver, Ontario, and Vernon and brings her fun and positive attitude to her role as an administrator at Vernon Health Unit.
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Slips, trips, and falls can happen at any time of the year, but we typically see an increase in these incidents when conditions are snowy and icy.
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Many of us will attend holiday gatherings and with more opportunities to drink alcohol, it can be easy to overindulge. Learn how to celebrate in a healthy way.
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Social Workers provide direct psychosocial care, counselling, group work, system navigation and advocacy, education and linkage to relevant specialized complex care resources while facilitating client self-management. Our social work teams have a human caring and relationship-centred practice philosophy with the ability to communicate effectively with clients, families, the public, medical staff and members of the interdisciplinary team.
We offer opportunities in Bachelor’s and Master’s level social work positions in both acute and community care settings. Our worksites offer you an environment that will challenge your professional, technical, and practical skills. We are dedicated to effective quality care and patient advocacy and have leadership that is committed to teamwork, engagement, and innovation.