Mental Health and Substance Use Careers

View all Community Mental Health Worker Jobs

This position provides services within a psychosocial rehabilitation and harm reduction framework for the assigned client population(s) with severe mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders as well as provides support to clients in the development and maintenance of the skills required to live successfully in their own homes. The Community Mental Health Worker is expected to engage clients in various community settings as people with full potential and as meaningful collaborators in their own service planning, delivery and evaluation.

View all Life Skills Outreach Worker Jobs

Life Skills Workers play an important role in care. They plan, observe, monitor and report on clients’ progress and level of acceptance to services and support. They assist clients with activities associated with daily living and work to demonstrate and model appropriate behaviors related to problem solving and decision-making.

View all Community Mental Health Life Skills Worker Jobs

The Community Mental Health Life Skills Worker contributes to a supportive and empowering environment that will enhance the resident’s recovery. Within a specialized residential care environment, this position facilitates the clients’ movement toward independent living, through the maintenance/cleanliness of the facility and engaging in daily activities with the clients that are established through the Clients’ care plan.

View all Mental Health and Substance Use Counselling & Treatment Clinician Jobs

The day-to-day aspect of this position ensures that persons with serious acute mental health problems and or problematic substance use issues have access to timely, responsive, evidence based short term treatment and clinical supports across the continuum of available services. The Counselling & Treatment Clinician provide individual and group counselling. Clinicians provide, at the advanced practice level, assessment, treatment, service coordination and client-centred care as part of a larger interdisciplinary health care team.

View all Mental Health and Substance Use Worker Jobs

The Mental Health & Substance Use Worker functions as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, whose purpose is to ensure that adults with serious mental disorders and/or substance use have access to responsive, sensitive and relevant assessment and treatment services. The program serves the adult and elderly population that experiences mental health disorders or substance use and impairment in personal, family, financial, occupational and/or social life. This includes individuals with acute psychosis, bizarre behavior, depression, anxiety, complicated grief, suicidal ideation, substance use, substance dependence and concurrent disorders.

View all Registered Psychiatric Nurse Jobs

Registered Psychiatric Nurses are trained as critical thinkers, problem solvers, and decision-makers to provide safe and competent care to patients. They are strong advocates for their patients, in a shared partnership to ensure they get the best care to improve their health.
The Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides assessment, treatment, case management, community support, and as required, urgent response to clients who may also have serious functional impairment in the domains of physical health and personal, family, financial, occupational, and social life. The Registered Nurse functions as a primary clinician utilizing a variety of specialized treatment modalities/therapies for individuals, groups of clients and/or their families.

View all Rural & Remote Adult MHSU Nurse Jobs

The Rural & Remote Adult Mental Health & Substance Use Nurse works as an integral part of an integrated mental health and substance use service. The Nurse provides urgent outreach, responsive assessment and treatment, case management, GP shared care, education, and support to individuals experiencing acute and/or chronic mental illness and/or problem substance use.

View all Social Worker Jobs

Social Workers provide direct psychosocial care, counselling, group work, system navigation and advocacy, education and linkage to relevant specialized complex care resources while facilitating client self-management. Our social work teams have a human caring and relationship-centred practice philosophy with the ability to communicate effectively with clients, families, the public, medical staff and members of the interdisciplinary team.

We offer opportunities in Bachelor’s and Master’s level social work positions in both acute and community care settings. Our worksites offer you an environment that will challenge your professional, technical, and practical skills. We are dedicated to effective quality care and patient advocacy and have leadership that is committed to teamwork, engagement, and innovation.