Mental Health and Substance Use
2 weeks ago
Interior Health is seeking a casual Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) Crisis Response Worker to join and support our MHSU Services as well as the Substance Use Connections team in Vernon, B.C.
**How Will You Create Impact?**
The Crisis Response Worker functions as a member of the larger Hospitals & Communities Integrated Services (HCIS) health care team and as a member of a specific multi-disciplinary team whose purpose is to provide direct and indirect mobile crisis intervention and mental health clinical services. The Crisis Response Worker ensures that persons with serious mental health problems and/or problematic substance use or withdrawal management issues have access to timely, responsive, evidence based treatment and clinical supports across the continuum of available services.
The Crisis Response Worker provides crisis response, assessment, suicide intervention, short term treatment planning, time limited case management and, as required, rapid 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 Crisis Response Worker functions as a primary clinician for short periods of time utilizing a variety of specialized treatment modalities/therapies for individuals, groups of clients and/or their families.
Shift times are from 08:00 to 16:00, 08:30 to 16:30 hours.
**What Will You Work On?**
Typical Duties and Responsibilities:
- While directly involved with the client, conducts follow up assessments of the client’s condition and determines the client’s needs.
- Provides comprehensive short term bio/psycho/social services that include a continuum of services designed to optimize clients’ recovery and ability to function.
- Provides short term case management, supportive counseling, and other forms of direct service, and directly provides or assists the clients to access services to deal with treatment and recovery issues.
- Arranges access to specialized services.
- Identifies and responds to the need for involvement in discharge planning and follow up after an admission to a hospital unit or emergency department.
- Provides a quick response to individuals who present as “walk in” clients.
- Identifies and responds to the need for involvement in discharge planning and follow up after an admission to a hospital unit or emergency department.
- Documents assessments, treatment formulations, care plans and progress notes.
- Establishes effective working linkages/relationships with all pertinent service providers.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
**How Will We Help You Grow?**
We provide you with an orientation customized to meet your needs, and immediate support and access from excellent colleagues. You will have access to work in an interdisciplinary environment where patients are at the centre of care.
We offer an exceptional employer-paid benefits package, recognition of previous experience in determining starting salary, and generous vacation entitlement after your first year of employment.
We offer a work environment conducive to growth and development of strong clinical skills. The opportunity to have a balanced lifestyle that allows you to maintain the quality of life you desire.
An abundance of opportunity Grow your career with Interior Health and take advantage of the work life balance that living in the Interior of British Columbia provides.
Education, Training and Experience:
Bachelor degree from an accredited educational institution in an Allied Health, Behavioural, or Social Science field relevant to the position.
Two years’ recent related experience in a mental health and substance use environment or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Current valid B.C. driver’s license.
**Please upload a copy of your Bachelor’s degree and DL.
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