Position Summary
Interior Health is seeking an experienced Rural Adult Mental Health & Substance Use (MHSU) Clinician to join the Child & Youth Mental Health Substance Use team for a permanent full time position based at the Williams Lake Mental Health Centre in beautiful Williams Lake, B.C.
This is a unique and special opportunity to work with and learn from Indigenous communities and wellness through an Indigenous lens. This position is integrated with Three Corners Health Services Society and engages in regular outreach to Indigenous communities in the N. Secwepemc territory.
What we offer:
• Competitive salary and an attractive remuneration package: We offer a highly competitive salary aligned with industry standards, coupled with an attractive remuneration package. This ensures you are fairly compensated for your skills, expertise, and contributions to our team.
• Career Growth: At IH, we are committed to your professional development. Whether you’re looking to enhance your skills, take on new responsibilities, or grow into leadership roles, we provide a supportive environment with clear career progression pathways to help you achieve your ambitions.
• Employer paid training/education: We invest in your success by setting you up with in-house professional development courses relevant to your role. This ensures you stay ahead in your field while growing your expertise at no personal cost.
• Employer paid vacation (per collective agreement): Enjoy the benefits of generous vacation time, paid in accordance with our collective agreement, allowing you to recharge and spend quality time with family and friends while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
• Employer paid insurance premiums: We provide peace of mind by fully covering the premiums for essential insurance plans, including life, disability, and extended health coverage, ensuring you and your loved ones are protected.
• Extended Health & Dental coverage: Our extended health and dental plans are designed to go above and beyond basic coverage, including services such as prescription medications, vision care, dental care, and specialized treatments. Your well-being is our priority.
• Contribution to Municipal Pension Plan: We contribute to the Municipal Pension Plan, helping you build a secure financial future. This pension plan offers long-term stability, giving you confidence and peace of mind for your retirement years.
• Balanced lifestyle: We believe in promoting a balanced lifestyle by fostering a workplace culture that values flexibility, mental wellness, and personal time. Our focus on balance ensures you can excel at work while thriving in your personal life.
What will you work on?
This position is for a Child & Youth Mental Health counsellor/clinician will be providing culturally appropriate services to clients within the Northern Secwepemc First Nation communities, engaging with appropriate culturally sensitive resources, providing culturally appropriate client assessments, preparing reports as required and recommending action plans to the Professional Practice Leader and Health Leads within the Northern Secwepemc communities, clinical counselling is a priority.
The focus of the position is working alongside communities, care providers and cultural resources to provide comprehensive, holistic, person-centered MHSU Care that supports addressing inequities to relevant, culturally safe and accessible MHSU care. Providing clinical counselling services from an Indigenous trauma informed lens is essential.
The Substance Use Clinician 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 Substance Use Clinician functions as a primary clinician utilizing a variety of specialized treatment modalities/therapies for individuals, groups of clients and/or their families.
Scheduling Information:
Shifts of work will be Monday to Friday 08:30-16:30 with weekends and statutory holidays off.
Who are we looking for?
The ideal candidate will have strong assessment and counselling skills and possess a human caring and relationship centred approach to practice. Experience working in community and with Indigenous populations is an asset as well as a deep understanding of the colonial impacts of assimilation and the residential school experience and its connection to mental health and substance use is an asset.
If you are a dynamic, experienced clinician, motivated to be challenged professionally, have excellent interpersonal skills and aspire to create long term roots in a small-town setting, this is the role you have been waiting for!
About this location/unit
The Interior Health Mental Health & Substance Use Services’ purpose is to restore, preserve and promote good mental health through sustainable and accountable practices.
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Reasons to Apply at Interior Health... What we can do for you
We offer a work environment conducive to growth and development of strong clinical skills and a work environment that supports and promotes psychological health & safety for all. We offer the opportunity to have a balanced lifestyle that allows you to maintain the quality of life you desire.
Come join our team and see why we’re one of Canada’s top 100 employers! Explore our extensive benefits, career growth opportunities, and lifestyle in one of the most beautiful and diverse regions of Canada. Ready to love where you live and work? Join our team today!
Qualifications
Education, Training and Experience:
Masters degree from an accredited educational institution in an Allied Health, Behavioural, or Social Science field relevant to the position.
Two years’ recent related experience in a mental health and substance use environment or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Current valid BC driver’s license. (Class V)
As part of your application, please ensure to:
• Upload your resume, cover letter (if Out of Province indicate if you are relocating to the area and when)
• Upload a copy of your Master’s Degree
Comments
Effective April 1, 2024, the pay scale for this position is $42.27 to $52.81
Interior Health is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to creating an environment free from discrimination. Our goal is to cultivate a workforce rich in culture, experience, and knowledge to enable us to provide high quality, accessible and culturally safe health services to everyone in the Interior Health region. We are committed to addressing existing inequities and barriers to achieving a diverse workforce, one that is representative of the communities we serve. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently marginalized groups.