Mental Health Clinician, Addictions

1 month ago

Toronto, Canada Sinai Health Full time

Are you passionate about empowering individuals to overcome challenges and achieve their potential? As a Mental Health Clinician, you'll have the unique opportunity to make a tangible difference in people's lives, forging connections as you guide them on their journey to mental wellness.

This is a great opportunity for those seeking to expand their expertise within an interprofessional, collaborative academic hospital setting. Sinai Health’s Psychiatry Department offers an opportunity to provide direct patient care across a variety of clinical programs, utilizing therapeutic modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and mindfulness-based interventions.

This opportunity is within the Addictions program serving both the Mount Sinai and Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital campuses

**Is this you?**

You are a highly empathetic and compassionate individual with a deep understanding of the complexities surrounding mental health. Your calm and engaging demeanor allows you to connect with patients from diverse backgrounds, building trust and fostering a safe space.

Do you believe in meeting individuals where they are at in their recovery journey, utilizing harm reduction principles to support positive change? Are you skilled at motivational interviewing and change management? This role allows you to provide compassionate, evidence-based, trauma-focused care, to those struggling with substance use disorders. It requires flexibility and adaptability to determine the best approach for a specific client relative to the clinical context.

You are a lifelong learner, committed to staying at the forefront of evidence-based practices and expanding your therapeutic toolkit. This role enables you to utilize a wide range of clinical skills, including intake/triage, individual and group therapies, and resource connection. In the field of mental health, innovations and new discoveries are ever-present, ensuring your work remains stimulating, purpose-driven, and constantly evolving to meet the needs of those you serve.

You value interprofessional collaboration and thrive in an environment where effective communication between members of the team (both internal and external) is key. You are organized, self-sufficient, and possess excellent time management skills, allowing you to navigate the demands of a dynamic health care setting.

**About this team**

Our addictions team supports and empowers patients experiencing the effects of substance use disorders. We work with patients to develop a care plan that is tailored to individual needs. This includes the change process, where the patient is encouraged to take responsibility for the outcomes they seek to achieve. Services include harm reduction support/supplies, medication-assisted treatment for substance use, transition pain medication, counselling, community resources, and education and support for family members and loved ones.

**In this role you will**:

- Coordinate and provide clinical care for clients that facilitates and supports recovery for patients facing a broad range of mental health and addictions challenges in the inpatient, outpatient and post-ED settings
- Triage, complete mental health assessments, formulate and develop treatment plans, provide resource navigation and psychosocial interventions with ongoing collaboration and communication with the inter-professional team and with the client’s social network and community circle of care
- Utilize and demonstrate a comprehensive theoretical knowledge base and clinical competence in caring for patients with substance use disorders and psychiatric illness
- Provide both individual and group treatments in various modalities in a supportive and culturally sensitive manner
- Develop linkages within Sinai Health and with non-hospital community services and organizations to enhance continuity of care for patients
- Adapt your approach to meet the demands and needs of constantly changing conditions, situations and people
- Promote and support a trauma-focused, equity-centred client care approach
- Contribute to program development, provide education and support to learners of all disciplines
- Participate in ongoing professional development activities, and engage in reciprocal relationships of learning with colleagues to stay current in the field. A focus will be on helping colleagues work with people who use drugs
- Provide care to inpatients through the addictions consultation service, and to outpatients through both drop-in clinic and booked appointments
- Perform other duties consistent with the job classification, as required
- Job Requirements

**Job Requirements**:
Mandatory
- Successful completion of either a Bachelor of Nursing or a Master’s Degree in a health-related discipline (including Social Work, Occupational Therapy or Psychology)
- Current member in good standing with a relevant regulatory co

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