Youth Mental Health Care Worker

Support youth mental health and substance use care with Vancouver Coastal Health’s DTES Youth Outreach Team in Vancouver. Apply trauma-informed practice daily.

As a Youth Care Worker, you provide treatment services within a multidisciplinary, team-based model of care. You support youth experiencing mental health, substance use, or concurrent disorder challenges. The work includes withdrawal management, psychoeducation, care coordination, and individualized treatment planning. You collaborate with youth, caregivers, and interdisciplinary colleagues to explore services, manage behaviour, and support recovery-oriented goals.

• Provide treatment services for youth mental health and substance use issues
• Assist with behaviour management and individualized care planning
• Support clients and caregivers through withdrawal management
• Provide psychoeducation about substance use and mental health
• Participate in case conferences and prevention strategies

• Baccalaureate degree in Child and Youth Care or related health science
• Two years’ recent related multidisciplinary youth care experience
• Knowledge of trauma-informed practice, harm reduction, and recovery-oriented care
• Ability to recognize risks of harm to clients or others
• Ability to communicate effectively with youth, families, and care teams

Bring youth care experience, treatment knowledge, and trauma-informed skills to Vancouver Coastal Health’s DTES outreach services.