Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker

Come work as a Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker with a Social Services Diploma OR a Certificate from a Health Care Worker program to join our team at UBC Hospital in Vancouver, BC. Apply today to join our team!

As a Mental Health Rehabilitation Worker at VCH, you will:

• Work as a member of an interdisciplinary tertiary mental health team to provide comprehensive psychosocial rehabilitation services within a recovery framework.
• Successfully support individuals in returning to the community through increasing functional skills and abilities, reduce the positive and negative symptoms of psychiatric illness, increase coping strategies to mitigate treatment resistant psychiatric symptoms, minimize challenging behaviours, increase social interconnections and improve physical health and wellness.
• Report to the Program Coordinator and under the daily direction of the Registered Nurse and/or Registered Psychiatric Nurse, provide support to the recovery of individuals living with severe and persistent mental illnesses who require resources beyond the scope of secondary mental health services due to the intensity, complexity or intractability of their symptoms.
• Provide a variety of day-to-day physical, emotional, and social supports, advocacy, life skills assistance and support to access resources to individuals with complex severe and persistent mental illnesses.
• Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to assist in the development of individualized rehabilitative treatment plans.
• Contribute to the overall evaluation of the client.
• Observe and monitor clients’ progress, symptoms and behavioural changes and reports significant observations.
• Establish, maintain and enhance therapeutic relationships based on respect.
• Promote independence for client while supporting them with activities of daily living such as personal care, including bathing, grooming, dressing, oral hygiene, toileting needs, perineal care and incontinence supply changes; community appointments/errands/activities; and meal planning and preparation.
• Assist in maintaining a safe environment for clients and the team.
• Participate in team meetings, engage in team planning and quality improvement activities, and maintain and update own knowledge.