Social Worker, MSW, Red Fish Healing Centre - BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services BC
Job in
Coquitlam, BC, Canada
Listing for:
PHSA
Full Time, Seasonal/Temporary
position
Listed on 2026-01-01
Job specializations:
-
Healthcare
Mental Health, Community Health
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Social Worker, (MSW)BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
Coquitlam, BC
What is Red Fish Healing Centre
θəqiʔ ɫəwʔənəq leləm’ (the Red Fish Healing Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, or Red Fish Healing Centre) is a 105-bed facility that treats individuals from across the province who live with the most severe concurrent and complex mental health and substance use disorders. Clients admitted to the Red Fish Healing Centre have both a mental illness and a substance use disorder;
many clients also have other chronic health problems. Clients may be admitted voluntarily, or involuntarily under BC’s Mental Health Act.
What you’ll do
Conduct comprehensive concurrent disorder, mental health, psycho-social, and family assessments, as well as substance use assessments as necessary by methods such as interviewing the client and/or family, obtaining relevant information, gathering social data regarding the client’s family, environment, living situation, and financial status, and interpreting the data to therapeutically impact the client's and family's coping abilities. Formulate assessments and plans of intervention and intervene in cases of complex social-emotional or family issues.Provide clinical intervention in the context of evidence-based care to clients and their families through individual, family, and group therapy. Provide individual, family, and group counseling services by methods such as exploring emotional responses to illness/injury to identify problems, personal concerns, and treatment objectives and to facilitate change in coping style, behavior, attitude, feelings, and adaptive responses to an adverse life event.
Refer to community services for follow-up as necessary.Collaborate with designated care management personnel to facilitate the management of cases with complex discharge needs. Receive referrals from care management personnel and other members of the interdisciplinary team to assist patients/families with complex emotional or social presentations, as well as facilitate care through the continuum.Establish and maintain effective collaborative and constructive liaison relationships with a variety of individuals and groups, including clients and families and others, such as community providers, MCFD social workers, schools, hospitals, and other agencies in order to coordinate services across the continuum of health care.Support clients and their families by providing education, short-term counseling, and crisis interventions during adjustments to the assigned health care setting, new diagnoses of health, concurrent disorder, mental health, and/or substance use issues, child welfare and custody proceedings, and changes or losses in health functioning.What you bring
Education, Training and Experience
Master’s degree in social work from an accredited School of Social Work.Minimum one (1) year recent, related experience working in a health care setting with the designated population group in the applicable program area/setting, such as individuals with complex concurrent psychiatric disorder and/or substance use issues and/or individuals who have a developmental disability and concurrent mental health and/or behavioural issues, or an equivalent combination of education, training or experience.Current full registration with the British Columbia College of Social Workers.Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within healthcare settings. This involves recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change.Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services contexts found in the foundational documents including…
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