Academic Psychiatrist

1 week ago


Vancouver, Canada Vancouver Coastal Health Full time
h3>Job Summary

Job Title: Psychiatrist, Vancouver Acute Home-Based Treatment (AHBT)

Work Site: Woodward Building / Vancouver Community

Status: Part Time

Start Date: To be mutually agreed upon

Compensation Type: Combination

Come work as a Psychiatrist with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)

Acute Home-Based Treatment is a new citywide program for clients with acute mental health needs who can safely be managed in their home or housing site with intensive outreach and active medical management. The physician will be part of a multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, nursing, care coordinators and a family physician or nurse practitioner.

Psychiatrists play a critical role in collaborating with community health and acute hospital services to address the ongoing needs of clients and their families in the service continuum, and to ensure a smooth transition from acute care to appropriate community health services. This entails engagement with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve excellence in client and family centered care, including psychiatric assessment, minor medical assessment, medication management, and providing expertise on behavioural management to the allied staff.

This position requires a commitment of at least 2 half days of clinical psychiatry work per week.

Qualifications

Education, Licensing, & Experience:

  • Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) – Mandatory
  • Current College of Physicians of BC (CPSBC) – Eligible
  • All VCH physicians must be appointed as medical staff of Vancouver Coastal Health.
  • A clinical faculty appointment with the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine is highly encouraged as resident supervision and involvement in education initiatives is an expectation.
  • Experience in a community mental health setting preferably working with marginalized populations.
  • A demonstrated ability to work as a member of an inter-professional health care team.
  • Engages in quality improvement priorities identified by medical and operational leadership in collaboration with physicians.
  • Facilitates education and research in collaboration with academic partners and operational management.

    As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly-funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks.

    WHY JOIN VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH?

    VCH is a world class innovator in medical care, research and teaching, delivering service to more than one million BC residents. At VCH, we embrace thinking boldly, taking smart risks, and "going first" when we believe it will lead to the best possible outcomes for patients and their families. We invite you to join us in creating healthy lives in healthy communities by showcasing our passion for care, connection to the communities we serve and our culture of teamwork that makes VCH a great place to work.

    • Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan
    • Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
    • Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families
    • Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers

    At Vancouver Coastal Health, our vision of healthy lives in healthy communities inspires us and our values and pillars guide us. We encourage applications from equity-deserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation.



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