Social Worker - Community Substance Use ICM

Social Worker - Community Substance Use ICM

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The salary range for this position is CAD $42.27/Hr.

- CAD $52.81/Hr.

Come work as a Social Worker with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Social Worker to join the Specialized Substance Use (SSU) Engage team in Vancouver, BC. Apply today to join our team!

Specialized Substance Use (SSU) Engage is an interdisciplinary substance use transition team that provides low‑barrier access to recovery‑based supports for clients accessing care within Specialized Substance Use Services. SSU Engage offers short‑term support for clients navigating recovery across the substance use continuum, providing Access Central waitlist support, residential treatment application completion, and transition support between WDM, stabilization and treatment centres, and recovery community connection.

The SSU Engage Social Worker is responsible for providing transitional support, advocacy, and advanced psychosocial services to clients with a variety of substance use, who have high levels of service utilisation, and/or experience barriers connecting to substance use services.

• Work as a member of an interdisciplinary mental health team.
• Conduct comprehensive social and psychosocial assessments and collaborate with the client and interdisciplinary team to facilitate transitions through the continuum of services for clients with complex discharge and/or intake/referral needs, providing individual, family, and group counselling services.
• Attend clinical/case conferences as a member of an interdisciplinary team for client reviews, admissions and discharges.
• Provide consultative and direct services to clients, families, staff and community health professionals regarding issues such as adult guardianship, advanced directives, domestic violence, abuse and/or neglect, immigration, housing, financial concerns, or matters concerning government agencies (i.e. Public Trustee) and authorities (i.e. courts, police).
• Prepare and maintain client records in accordance with established standards, policies and procedures.

• Current full registration with the British Columbia College of Social Workers.
• Master’s degree in Social Work from an accredited School of Social Work.
• Three (3) years’ recent, related experience working in a psychiatric setting providing treatment services to individuals with complex mental health, substance use and chronic medical concerns, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Valid BC Driver’s License and access to a personal vehicle for business‑related purposes, as required.

• Knowledge of the principles of recovery in mental illness.
• Knowledge of psychosocial rehabilitation methodology.
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act as it applies to the rights and obligations of clients and staff.
• Knowledge of community, social and mental health resources.
• Ability to identify emotional, social, or environmental barriers and intervene to eliminate stigma.
• Ability to effectively manage conflict situations and aggressive behaviour and use non‑violent crisis intervention and behavioural management techniques.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with clients, families, team members, other groups and community agency personnel.
• Broad knowledge of mental illness and substance use treatment.
• Broad knowledge of systems thinking as it relates to social work process.
• Broad knowledge of other health disciplines and their role in healthcare.
• Broad knowledge of research methodology, counselling skills and clinical practice models.
• Broad knowledge of family, group and change therapy.
• Broad knowledge of legislation and government policies and procedures that relate to the client.
• Demonstrated ability to apply systems theory to practice in social work assessment and intervention.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct social and psychosocial…