SOCIAL WORKER, YOUTH SHORT TERM ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE (YSTAR)

Northern Health - BC; Terrace; On-site; CAD 55,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Health is seeking a registered Social Worker to join the Specialized Services team, focused on youth and families in community settings. You will provide mental health and substance use treatment and supports in street-based, school, and community contexts.

Under supervision, you will conduct assessments, deliver early interventions, coordinate referrals, and apply Harm Reduction in collaboration with partner services to promote safer outcomes for youth in the community.

Qualifications

• Provides assessments, early interventions, and referrals for substance use and/or mental health problems.
• Works with youth at risk in street-based, school, and community settings.
• Applies Harm Reduction principles in collaboration with collateral service providers.

Responsibilities

• Provide community-based early intervention, crisis response, assessment and treatment.
• Plan and implement the acute discharge plan to ensure seamless transitions between services.
• Engage with youth and families to support ongoing treatment and rehabilitation goals.

Skills

Community outreach

Assessment

Crisis intervention

Collaboration

Job description

Are you a registered Social Worker looking to highlight your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a new and dynamic environment? We currently have an opportunity for you to bring your excellent work ethic to our Specialized Services department.

In accordance with the established mission, vision, values, and strategic priorities of Northern Health and under the general supervision of the Manager or designate, the Social Worker is a member of a multidisciplinary team that provides youth and their families with mental health and substance use treatment and supports. The primary responsibilities include community engagement and outreach services to at-risk youth or identified as at-risk, by providing assessments, early interventions and referrals for substance use and/or mental health problems. This position will work in settings where contact with youth at risk can best be established, e.g., street-based, school, and community settings. Providing mental health and substance use services where the focus is maintaining clients in the community as well as enhancing youth treatment and rehabilitation plans through regular and supportive contact. As a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, providing direct community based early intervention, crisis response, assessment and treatment, planning and implementation of the acute discharge plan, and ensuring youth have a seamless transition between services. The Social Worker, Y-Star, works within the framework of Harm Reduction in substance use, promoting the benefits of this approach in collaborative work with collateral service providers.

Shift Rotation/Hours of work:

Days - 10:00 to 18:30, Rotating