Psychiatrist, Vancouver Acute Home-Based Treatment (AHBT)

Vancouver Coastal Health • Vancouver, BC

18d • Hybrid

About The Position

Acute Home-Based Treatment is a 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. The physician will be part of a multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, nursing, care coordinators and a family physician or nurse practitioner. Psychiatrists play a critical role in collaborating 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, including psychiatric assessment, minor medical assessment, medication management, and providing expertise on behavioural management to the allied staff. This position requires a commitment of at least 2 half days of clinical psychiatry work per week.

Requirements

• Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) – Mandatory
• Current College of Physicians of BC (CPSBC) – Eligible
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) - Eligible
• Must be appointed as medical staff of Vancouver Coastal Health.
• 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 demonstrated commitment to on-going learning and professional development.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diverse cultural beliefs and practices.
• Superior communication skills to develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Superior conflict resolution skills and expertise to persuade and negotiate effectively in the development, management and evaluation of service delivery interrelationships and service potential within a complex environment.
• Systems and critical thinking in identifying issues and solving problems and implementing effective strategies and processes in addressing and resolving issues.
• Monitoring the efficiency and provision of safe care of the program to meet the goals and maintain the objectives of the program and organization.
• Engaging in quality improvement priorities identified by medical and operational leadership in collaboration with physicians.
• Facilitating education and research in collaboration with academic partners and operational management.

Nice To Haves

• A clinical faculty appointment with the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine is highly encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with community health and acute hospital services to address the ongoing needs of clients and their families in the service continuum.
• Ensuring a smooth transition from acute care to appropriate community health services.
• Engaging with key internal and external stakeholders to achieve excellence in client and family centered care.
• Providing psychiatric assessment.
• Providing minor medical assessment.
• Providing medication management.
• Providing expertise on behavioural management to the allied staff.
• Supervising residents.
• Involvement in education initiatives.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan
• Employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families
• Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior