Mental Health Clinician

2 weeks ago

Langley, Canada Fraser Health Full time
Mental Health Clinician Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Mental Health Clinician to join our team at Fraser Health. As a Mental Health Clinician, you will work with clients and families affected by mental illness and substance use disorders, providing personalized support and guidance to help them navigate their journey toward recovery and well-being.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide treatment and support for complex situations to clients and natural supports, collaborating with them to develop and implement recovery-oriented treatment options and plans.
  • Provide short-term brief interventions, follow-up, monitoring, and evaluating treatment outcomes as required.
  • Provide individual and group therapy, and family support, using a variety of interviewing, supportive counseling, and assessment methods.
  • Support the intake process and assess client needs by performing initial screening of referrals from other health care providers/agencies, family members, physicians and other sources.
  • Make necessary arrangements for clients to be admitted to hospital when required, including on an involuntary basis.
  • Facilitate client utilization of appropriate community services and rehabilitative programs.
  • Coordinate services with police, hospitals, crisis lines and suicide prevention programs.
  • Facilitate family and lived experience involvement activities.
  • Provide information and guidance to other caregivers, health providers and the general public regarding the Mental Health & Substance Use Services.
  • Maintain client records by recording information such as client assessments, charting client information via PARIS and/or other clinical information systems.
  • Provide advocacy for clients by providing information about appeal processes, access to information, and availability of client representatives.
  • Provide follow-up care and services as required.
  • Promote quality improvement through recommendations on policies, processes and procedures that streamline and provide for more efficient and effective client/family centred practices.
  • Participate actively and collaboratively in team planning and team meetings, as well as local committees, advisory boards, and/or corporate initiatives.
  • Maintain relevant data and statistics on information such as intakes, requests, referrals in/out, priority, sources and nature of requests.
  • Carry out responsibilities in accordance with health and safety requirements.
  • Develop linkages with other facilities and community resources, and advocate on behalf of the client and others to improve access, integration and coordination of mental health services.
  • Maintain current and relevant mental health and substance practice through methods such as reviewing literature and research, consulting with clinical and community experts within the field.
  • Participate in clinical research and program evaluation activities relevant to the needs of clients, families, hospitals, and the community.

Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Social Work, Counselling Psychology or other relevant social or health sciences discipline.
  • Two (2) years' recent, related experience working with clients and families with, or affected by, mental illness and substance use disorders, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
  • Eligible for registration with relevant professional association.
  • Valid Class V British Columbia driver's license and access to a personal vehicle for business related purposes.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of mental health psychiatric assessment skills, crisis intervention techniques, de-escalation techniques, brief/short-term therapy skills and interventions, psycho-pharmacology used in psychiatric treatment, abnormal psychology, general counseling theory/principles, current DSM multi-axial diagnosis or International Classification of Diseases (ICD), community response procedures, and community resource utilization.
  • Demonstrated ability to deal with others effectively, including establishing and maintaining rapport with psychotic, crisis-prone, non-compliant people, and working collaboratively and co-operatively with other care providers to facilitate and enhance interdisciplinary, inter-departmental, and interagency communication and problem solving.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan, problems solve, organize and prioritize workload, including setting clear clinical priorities in relation to identified risk factors in a continuously changing environment.
  • Working knowledge of violence de-escalation and conflict resolution skills.
  • Ability to work independently and in a self-directed manner.
  • Ability to facilitate group therapy and educational sessions.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate related equipment.
  • Basic computer literacy to operate a computerized client/family information system, word processing and e-mail.
  • Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act, and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPP).
  • Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

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