Mental Health And Substance Use (Mhsu) Crisis Response Worker

Interior Health is seeking a relief part time (0.88 FTE) Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) Crisis Response Worker to join our team in Kelowna, B.C. This relief position is until September 3, 2024 or the return of the incumbent.
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.
What Will You Work On?
Typical Duties And Responsibilities

• 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.
• While directly involved with the client, conducts follow up assessments of the client’s condition and determines the client’s needs.
• Provides a quick response to individuals who present as “walk in” clients.
• Establishes effective working linkages/relationships with all pertinent service providers.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Documents assessments, treatment formulations, care plans and progress notes.
• Identifies and responds to the need for involvement in discharge planning and follow up after an admission to a hospital unit or emergency department.
• Identifies and responds to the need for involvement in discharge planning and follow up after an admission to a hospital unit or emergency department.

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.
Reasons to Apply at Interior Health... What we can do for you
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.