Come work as a Mental Health Clinician Child & Youth with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for an experienced Mental Health Clinician with a Master's Degree in an Health Science Discipline to join the Youth Outreach Mental Health team in Vancouver, BC.

As a Mental Health Clinician with Youth Outreach Mental Health, you will:

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, conduct mental health assessments for youth who are marginalized and street involved and are experiencing urgent and emergent mental health and/or substance use concerns.
• Assess physiological, psychological and social cultural needs; conduct risk assessments and formulate initial diagnostic impressions in order to determine priority of care requirements and the available services and resources.
• Provide direct clinical services in the form of immediate assertive outreach assessment/intervention/referral and support to clientele.
• Provide assertive outreach intervention-stabilization as required and collaborates with colleagues and other caregivers in the identification and resolution of client care issues, ethical dilemmas, coordination and integration of care.
• Act as client advocate, develops, coordinates and delivers evidence based treatment/interventions.
• Participate in clinical/case conferences, team meetings, continuing education, conferences.
• Engage in on-going team planning, development, evaluation and quality improvement activities.

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in a related Health Science discipline.
• Three (3) years’ recent, related outreach experience working with marginalized and street involved youth or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Valid BC Drivers License. Local area travel may require the use of a personal vehicle.
• Eligibility for registration with the appropriate professional body or association, as applicable.

Knowledge & Abilities

• Knowledge of the principles of recovery in mental illness.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of behavioural, social emotional and mental health/psychiatric problems in youth.
• Broad knowledge of mental illness diagnosis and treatment.
• Broad knowledge of psychopharmacology (indications and side-effects).
• Broad knowledge of psychotherapeutic and counseling skills.
• Broad knowledge of other facilities and community resources.
• Broad knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role in client care.
• Demonstrated ability to work with youth with behavioral, social, emotional and mental health/psychiatric issues.
• Demonstrated ability to do assertive outreach with youth who are marginalized and street involved.
• Broad knowledge of working with youth who are substance using/concurrent.
• Demonstrated ability to perform psychosocial assessments and provide treatment planning and care.
• Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge of theory and practice to a case coordination process.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct mental health and addictions assessments, and provide treatment planning and crisis intervention.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with youth and their families, educational personnel, child protection social workers and resource workers, service providers, colleagues, physicians, and other health care staff.
• Demonstrated listening and information seeking skills that promotes communication and lead to a co-operative approach to problem solving within a multidisciplinary setting.
• Demonstrated ability to establish workload priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to take clinical input and direction from a supervisor.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrated ability to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated ability to adjust to new or unexpected events.
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve.
• Demonstrated ability to deal effectively with conflict situations.
• Demonstrated ability to provide consultation, leadership and work direction.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Basic computer literacy to operate computerized client care information system and word processing, spreadsheet, Internet and e-mail software.

The hours of work including days off and work area may be subject to change consistent with operational requirements and the provision of the Collective Agreement and applicable statutes. Successful applicants may be required to complete a Criminal Records Review Check.

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. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process.

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 support equitable practices, diverse teams and inclusive environments, which are vital to creating welcoming spaces where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and feel supported. 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.

Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2024.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for this posting.


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Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.