Role and Facility Information

The medical coordinator for Vancouver Community Mental Health and Substance Use Acute Home Based Treatment is accountable to the program medical director Vancouver Community Mental Health and Substance Use Services to provide medical leadership for an exciting new citywide program for clients with acute mental health needs who can safely be managed in their home or housing site with intensive outreach and active medical management. This physician will co-lead a multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, nursing, care coordinator and nurse practitioner.

The medical coordinator, in partnership with the operations manager, is accountable for the effective and efficient functioning of the program and fostering a collaborative inter-professional environment to enhance client-centered service.

He/she plays a critical role in linking his/her portfolio with community health and acute hospital services to address the ongoing needs of clients and their families in the service continuum, and to ensure a smooth transition from acute care to appropriate community health services. This entails engagement with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve excellence in client and family centered care.

The medical coordinator serves as a liaison between the physicians and nurse practitioners working in with the AHBT team operations manager and the medical and operations directors. She/he assists the medical director in recruitment, retention, and performance management of medical staff. Other priorities include facilitating involvement of clinical learners and facilitating research when feasible.

In addition, the candidate will have:

• Experience in a community mental health setting preferably working with marginalized populations.

• Experience in caring for and treating severe mental illness, addiction, concurrent disorders, and personality disorders.

• Completion of or willingness to complete the BCCSU Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program course.

• A demonstrated ability to work as a member of an inter-professional health care team.

• A commitment to health care quality improvement with some relevant experience or training.

• A demonstrated commitment to on-going learning and professional development.

This position requires a commitment of at least 3 half days of clinical psychiatry work per week.

As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly-funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process.

At Vancouver Coastal Health, our vision of healthy lives in healthy communities inspires us and our values and pillars guide us. We support equitable practices, diverse teams and inclusive environments, which are vital to creating welcoming spaces where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and feel supported. We encourage applications from equity-deserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation.

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Benefits and Incentives

Other Benefits/Incentives

• At least 1 one year experience working with Mental Health Substance Use (MHSU) population • A medical degree and eligibility for or licensure with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia supplemented by medical leadership experience within a health care organization, and a three or more years in independent clinical practice. • All VCH physicians must be appointed as medical staff of Vancouver Coastal Health. • A clinical faculty appointment with the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine is highly encouraged as resident supervision and involvement in education initiatives is an expectation. • Experience in a community mental health setting preferably working with marginalized populations. • Experience in caring for and treating severe mental illness, addiction, concurrent disorders, and personality disorders. • Completion of or willingness to complete the BCCSU Provincial Opioid Addiction Treatment Support Program course. • A demonstrated ability to work as a member of an inter-professional health care team. • A commitment to health care quality improvement with some relevant experience or training.

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