Social Worker, Overdose Outreach Team (OOT)

Join Our Team as a Clinician for Community Mental Health & Substance Use!

Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact in mental health and substance use services? We’re looking for dedicated professionals to join our dynamic team as a Clinician for Community Mental Health.

What We're Looking For: 

• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from an approved school of Social Work.
• Experience: At least two (2) years' recent, related experience in a complex healthcare environment such as a community harm reduction setting including one (1) year experience working with clients who have been systematically marginalized with multiple health issues, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience will also be considered.

Watch this video to learn how Fraser Health supports mental health, hosted by our President, Dr. Victoria Lee: Navigating mental health with compassion

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Within the context of a client and family centred care model and in accordance with the vision and values of the organization, the Social Worker is responsible for providing clinical and consultative case management and social work services to priority clients and their natural supports within the Fraser Health (FH) Overdose Outreach Team (OOT). The Social Worker provides comprehensive services and therapeutic clinical counseling to clients and their natural supports, which includes conducting comprehensive social work and psychosocial assessments of clients and their natural supports using a variety of assessment tools to provide treatment services. Provides clinical support to the interdisciplinary team including physicians in the development of care plans and services provided within the assigned area of responsibility. Participates on local committees and planning bodies to identify areas of improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery to enhance client care services and reduce service gaps. Primarily the work is done on an outreach basis to meet the needs of the clients and to provide integration and continuity across the care continuum. The Social Worker plays a central role as a liaison, and an education resource with community agencies and throughout FH. Applies advanced knowledge, skill and clinical experience in facilitating communication and decision making around client care.

Education, Training & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from an approved school of Social Work. Current full registration with the BC College of Social Workers. Two (2) years recent, related experience in a complex healthcare environment such as a community harm reduction setting including one (1) year experience working with clients who have been systematically marginalized with multiple health issues. Or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Valid B.C. driver’s license and access to a personal vehicle for business-related purposes.

Current First Aid and CPR Level C.

Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to work with priority and culturally diverse populations related to substance use and the toxic drug-poisoning crisis, including Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities.
• Demonstrated ability to do outreach to non-traditional environments where people gather (i.e. festivals, witness consumption spaces).
• Demonstrated orientation to practice that deeply listens to and honours the knowledge of the people we serve, which includes radical allyship with people who use drugs, harm reduction, cultural humility and safety, sex-positive, trauma and resiliency-informed practice.
• Knowledge of legislation and government policies and procedures that relate to substance use practices and how they may affect client care, resource access or practice guidelines.
• Crisis prevention/intervention, problem-solving skills and conflict resolution/de-escalation skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment as well as capacity to work in partnership with other community agencies with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with clients, families, team members and community agency personnel.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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