MHSU Counselling & Treatment Clinician | MHSU ASTAT

Position Summary

We have a permanent full time opportunity for a Mental Health Substance Use (MHSU) Counselling & Treatment Clinician to join our high functioning and well integrated MHSU Adult Short Term Assessment and Treatment (ASTAT) team at the Vernon Health Centre in beautiful Vernon, B.C.

Interior Health and our partner agencies provide a range of mental health and substance use services for all ages. We strive to ensure that our services are welcoming of all peoples, gender identities, cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.

• Competitive salary and an attractive remuneration package
• Career Growth
• Employer paid training/education
• Employer paid vacation (per collective agreement)
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Extended Health & Dental coverage
• Contribution to Municipal Pension Plan
• Balanced lifestyle

We're looking for a compassionate and skilled professional who thrives in a fast-paced, team-based environment and is driven by the desire to make a real difference in people’s lives. The ideal candidate is someone who brings strong clinical expertise and experience in supporting individuals facing complex mental health and substance use challenges, including co-occurring disorders and functional impairments. The ideal candidate must be clinically sharp, someone also collaborative, adaptable, and with a solid understanding of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, this person is equally comfortable providing one-on-one therapy, facilitating groups, coordinating care, and contributing to the broader mental health and substance use service landscape.

If you're someone who values connection, can respond calmly in moments of crisis, and wants to help individuals navigate their path toward wellness with dignity and respect, we’d love to hear from you.

The MHSU Counselling & Treatment Clinician functions as a member of the larger Integration and Strategic Services health care team and as a member of a specific MHSU multi-disciplinary team. The position provides, at the advanced practice level, assessment, treatment, service coordination, and as required, urgent response to the most complex clients, frequently with co-occurring disorders, who may also have serious functional impairment in the domains of physical health and personal, family, financial, occupational, and social life.

The MHSU Counselling & Treatment Clinician functions as a primary clinician utilizing a variety of specialized treatment modalities/therapies for individuals, groups of clients and/or their families.

• Provides comprehensive bio/psycho/social services that include a continuum of services designed to optimize clients’ recovery and ability to function.
• Arranges access to specialized services such as substance use, forensic/criminal justice, developmental disability, and acquired brain injury.
• Identifies the need for, and ensures or arranges transition plans are in place for clients transferring between levels of care, including involvement in the client’s admission to acute care and discharge planning and follow up after an admission to a hospital unit or emergency department.
• Documents assessments, treatment formulations, care plans and progress notes.
• Provides consultation and shares information with community agencies and the public about mental illness and mental health and/or substance use services, promoting good public relations and facilitating efficient and cooperative relationships.
• Delivers and participates in in-service and other educational programs as required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Shift types are days and shift times are from 08:30 to 16:30 hours.