Health Care Worker,Float Pool,Forensic Psychiatric Hospital - BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services BC Job Coquitlam area,BC

Health Care Worker, Maximum and Multi-Level Security Units

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Coquitlam, BC

This is a Temporary Full-Time (Until May 15, 2026) position. The successful candidate will be required to work across all units within the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, including maximum/medium/minimum and multi level units, based on operational needs and as directed by the hiring manager/on-call.

For further information about the Float Pool units, please review the information provided below:

Ashworth 1 (A1) - Male remand unit

Ashworth 2 (A2) - Specialized assessment and psychiatric intensive care program

Ashworth 3 (A3) - Neuropsychiatry program

Ashworth 4 (A4) - Severe psychosis/ intensive management program

Dogwood East (DWE) - Women's program

Dogwood West (DWW) - Geriatric/ medically frail program

Elm North (Elm N) - Intensive rehabilitation program

Elm South (Elm S) - Intensive rehabilitation program

Hawthorne House (Hawthorne) - Pre-discharge program

What you’ll do

Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients/families and provides support following established care plans; greet patients/families, assist with storage of personal belongings and creation of a safe/comfortable environment, including fostering a culture of patient and staff safety. The health care worker maintains confidentiality and respect for the patient’s rights and privacy.

Provide personal care to patients such as bathes, showers, grooms, dresses, assists with oral hygiene and toileting needs, maintains skin by applying creams and ointments as applicable, serving meals and assisting with feeding patients as required; ensures dietary needs are met.

Perform nursing care functions as applicable such as ensuring they know the Kardex, risk triggers and signature behaviors, nursing care plans of any and all patients they are assigned to and the unit milieu. Communicate reports and records in the patient chart, any patient behaviors’ of concern including patient verbal or physical aggression, or violence to the nurse.

Respond to call bells/alarms by alerting the appropriate health care team member and/or assisting as necessary. Respond to emergent situations by calling appropriate code and assisting care team in accordance with unit/program guidelines.

Observe and monitor patient progress and behavioral changes and reports significant observations such as discomfort and/or pain, or condition/ complaints and/or accidents, which the patient reports and feedback from the patient into the care planning progress to the Registered Nurse or designate; as applicable.

What you bring

Qualifications

Grade 10. Graduation from a recognized Nursing Assistant or Care Attendant program, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

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 & Substance Use Services contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, BC Human Rights Code, Anti-racism Data Act and how they intersect across the health care system.

Core Competencies

Brings an understanding of the Indigenous specific racism and…


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