What You Will Do

Summary

Join our team at Providence Health Care and help deliver compassionate, innovative mental health care to adults across British Columbia. We are seeking a skilled Social Worker to provide advanced therapeutic services, coordinate care, and contribute to education and research initiatives in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment within the Brief Intervention Clinic - Outpatient Mental Health program at SPH

Why You’ll Love Working With Us:

• Champion Social Justice: Advocate for social equity and work to address systemic healthcare challenges affecting vulnerable populations.
• Innovate for Change: Contribute new ideas to our forward-thinking, diverse programs that improve care for our community.
• Collaborative Spirit: Work alongside a team that values your expertise, where every voice is heard, and collaboration is key to success.
• Endless Growth Opportunities: Engage in practice-based research, quality improvement initiatives, and ongoing professional development to enhance your career.
• Research Connections: Leverage our strong partnerships with UBC to expand your network and stay on the cutting edge of addiction medicine research

Your Role

• Promote a safe, respectful, and civil working environment within a patient, client, and family-centred model of care

• Provide advanced therapeutic clinical services to adults receiving mental health treatment

• Conduct complex assessments, individual and group therapy

• Coordinate care and treatment for a designated caseload

• Liaise with professionals and teams across British Columbia

• Lead education, research, and program development initiatives

• Provide consultation on legislative and ethical issues

• Foster a positive, culturally responsive treatment environment

• Provide leadership in dialectical and cognitive behaviour therapies

• Teach interdisciplinary trainees from various disciplines

This role requires a Master’s in Social Work, post-master’s training in DBT or CBT, at least four years of experience delivering these therapies, and full registration with the BC College of Social Workers. If you’re passionate about transforming mental health care and ready to bring your expertise to a supportive, innovative team, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and help shape the future of mental health care across BC.

What You Bring

Education and Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work

• Completion of post-master’s training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), or equivalent

• Minimum of four (4) years experience providing DBT or CBT in a mental health setting or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

• Current full registration with the British Columbia College of Social Workers

Skills and Abilities

• Strong knowledge of mental health and substance use issues, evidence-based practices, and psychiatric diagnoses.
• Skilled in DBT, CBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, Brief Intervention, Crisis Intervention, and motivational interviewing.
• Effective communicator and collaborator with clients, families, teams, and community partners.
• Proficient in psychosocial assessments, planning, and implementing interventions across individual, couple, family, and group settings.
• Knowledgeable about community resources and inter-professional scopes of practice.
• Committed to cultural safety, humility, and equity.
• Organized, adaptable, and skilled in navigating complex environments.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and ability to educate, consult, and lead presentations.
• Proficient in computers and related applications.
• Physically able to perform duties of the role.

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary: $42.27 per hour to $52.81 per hour
• Inclusive Culture: We respect the diversity, dignity, and interdependence of all individuals. We value the cultural richness that our diverse workforce brings to the care of our equally diverse population of patients and residents.
• Comprehensive Health Benefits Package: Includes dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as a pension plan.
• State-of-the-art Facilities: The new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will offer the most innovative approach to integrated care in B.C. and Canada, designed to meet the future health needs of patients, families, and communities. From hospital care to primary and community health solutions, the new St. Paul’s Hospital will continue to lead in care, research, and teaching. The new hospital is expected to open in 2027.

Your Day to day

• Evaluates, develops, and implements treatment practices and protocols to promote excellence in social work and mental health care.

• Participates in complex discharge planning and coordinates follow-up with team members and community partners.

• Builds and maintains effective relationships with community mental health providers and agencies.

• Provides advanced therapeutic counseling and facilitates psycho-educational groups.

• Conducts psychosocial assessments, formulates care plans, and maintains client records.

• Offers consultation and leadership in program planning, research, and best practices.

• Advocates for clients and families, assists with referrals, and provides education and supervision.

• Participates in committee work and performs related administrative duties.

Who we are

Providence Health Care is one of the largest faith-based health care organizations in Canada. For the people at Providence, living our Mission, Vision and Values means providing British Columbians with compassionate, socially just, exceptional and innovative care every day.

From our humble roots 129 years ago, Providence has grown into globally renowned research, teaching, and care organization. As individuals within a mission-driven organization, we choose to be part of Providence Health Care because we value the organization’s long commitment to social justice and compassionate care, and its commitment to the process of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

We acknowledge that Providence Health Care and the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.