#443 Mental Health Support Worker (Housing Retention Wellness Worker) (Temporary Full-Time)

Functions & Responsibilities

• Demonstrate knowledge of concurrent disorders, including understanding underlying causes, treatments, and strategies for advanced crisis intervention and counseling.
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  • Coordinate care for clients by collaborating with the interprofessional care team.
  • This involves conducting mental health assessments, developing, implementing, maintaining, and adjusting comprehensive treatment plans based on client needs and best practices, administering prescribed medications, and monitoring and assessing clients' mental state and response to medications to ensure optimum client-centered care.
• Plan and provide direct nursing care to clients in compliance with standards of practice. This includes conducting physical/psychosocial assessments, developing client-specific care plans, and collaborating with other members of the health care team to discuss and review the care plan.
• Implement and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions, modifying as necessary, and recommending adjustments to treatment plans to enable independence.
• Implement trauma-informed practice and demonstrate a strong understanding of harm reduction principles.
• Maintain awareness of community social and mental health resources, making this information available to clients while respecting their individual goals.
• Initiate and participate in case conferences/meetings with clients, family, service providers, and members of the interprofessional team to identify client mental health issues, concerns regarding services and coordination, emergent issues, and discussions of ongoing follow-up care to ensure a coordinated approach to treatment.
• Act as a client advocate to protect and promote clients' right to autonomy, respect, privacy, dignity, and access to information.
• Effectively manage crisis situations, using non-violent crisis intervention techniques and behavior management.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team, including providing mentorship, support, and training as needed.

Qualifications

• Practicing Psychiatric Nurse, registered with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives.
• Current First Aid and CPR certification.
• Minimum 1-year experience in a mental health-centered environment.

Abilities

• Ability to uphold best practices in the nursing field.
• Ability to independently analyze and interpret policies and make recommendations on feasible solutions.
• Ability to independently plan, organize, manage, and control a high volume of activities.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and discretion within policy guidelines.