Psychiatrist - Adult - Community - Surrey

Fraser Health Authority (FHA) is seeking a psychiatrist to work in the new MHSU Urgent Care Centre (UCRC) on the Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) campus of care. This will be a joint position with the Intensive Tertiary Rehabilitation (ITR) Unit in Timber Creek Tertiary Care Facility co-located on the SMH campus.

The UCRC component requires a 0.5 commitment (two to three 8 hour shifts per week) including some weekends. The Intensive Tertiary Rehabilitation (ITR) Unit component will require a 0.5 commitment. Participation in the on-call rota is mandatory.

Urgent Care Response Centre (UCRC): In alignment with BC Ministry of Health and FHA priorities, the MHSU program has designed a service to provide easy and timely access to personalized, coordinated care for clients in crisis. The model of care involves an interdisciplinary team of health care providers with a consistent approach that focuses on crisis management, connection to services and communication with community care providers.

The UCRC will be providing services to persons in crisis who walk in to the clinic, are referred by their primary care providers, diverted from the emergency department, or brought by EHS or Police after a call-ahead check in to ensure suitability. The UCRC hours of operation are from 0730 to 2330 daily.

This is an exciting opportunity for psychiatrists to join a multidisciplinary team to support complex, marginalized individuals with significant mental health and substance use issues. In addition to providing consultations to patients, crisis management, connection to services and referrals with warm hand overs for ongoing care, physicians will be providing OAT starts and clinical support to the Substance Access Team (enhanced access to substance use support and services). Ongoing mentorship and support will be available from FH Addiction Medicine Physicians.

Timber Creek Tertiary Mental Health Program: Inpatient mental health program for adults with serious, complex, and persistent mental illness who need intensive and highly specialized treatment and support. Services provided by assessment and treatment unit, psychiatric intensive care unit, and intensive tertiary rehabilitation unit. Average length of stay is six to 24 months.

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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