The salary range for this position is CAD $42.56 - $52.95 / hour Are you passionate about working in Mental Health & Substance Use Services? We're thrilled to announce that we have a Casual position available based in Tri-Cities, BC. A successful candidate will be added to the casual pool for the regional Rehabilitation & Recovery team, which provides OT services at community mental health & substance use programs and tertiary facilities throughout Fraser Health.

As a casual, you will receive offers for blocks of shifts in advance; we do not ask casuals to fill in for therapists who call in sick on a single day. You will also be able to set parameters of which communities you are willing to work in, and when you would be open to shift offers. Please feel free to apply to any of our casual postings; we will reach out to you and discuss which communities and facilities you are interested in working in.

If you are looking for steady work (e.g. two days per week), you may be able to provide partial coverage for vacant positions while we are recruiting. If you are looking for intermittent work, that can also be accommodated in this role, so long as you work a sufficient amount of shifts over time. Most shift offers can be negotiated.

Work with adult clients (individually and in groups) referred by their Most Responsible Clinician for support with diverse occupations such as: volunteering, education, social activities, community navigation, daily routines, or dating. Clients may have any type of mental health and/or substance use diagnosis. In tertiary MHSU practice, you would work with residents of a bed-based program to meet their occupational needs, both psychosocial and physical.

You will have an opportunity to get to know and build relationships with the residents throughout their stay, which range from several months to several years. Assist residents to engage in meaningful activity and move toward their next setting; this may include building up independent living skills, engaging in pre-employment, education, behavioural activation, or other routines. You would also assess residents’ function to assist in determining appropriate services and discharge destinations.

Current full registration with the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC Two (2) years recent related experience working in a community mental health and/or substance use setting Watch this video to learn how Fraser Health supports mental health, hosted by our President, Dr. To learn more about our MHSU programs and services, read employee insights, and current job vacancies, please visit Fraser Health MHSU. Abiding by Fraser Health Policies and Procedures impacting rehabilitation and recovery services, and as a member of the interdisciplinary team, provides direct and indirect specialized occupational therapy services to clients of their area of practice using recognized occupational therapy tools and techniques.

The Occupational

Therapist engages with individual clients and support systems as full collaborators in service planning, delivery, and evaluation; develops partnerships with community agencies to encourage client participation; focuses on occupational performance (person-occupation-setting) from a psychosocial rehabilitation (PSR)



perspective for Mental Health & Substance Use program clients; provides input into the evaluation of process and outcomes to ensure quality of services; participates in joint planning with team members for overall service delivery to clients, and works collaboratively with MHSU staff, agencies, and community service providers. This position may be required to work in different settings such as at more than one location within an assigned geographical area, or within a virtual/remote service delivery environment. Screens and assesses client’s functional capacity, occupational performance, and environmental supports to make appropriate referrals by reporting client’s occupational profile, skills, limitations, support needs, and goals. # Conducts home assessments/community visits as required. # Analyses and reviews assessment results with the client to determine a course of action, and provides verbal and written assessment reports to the case manager and other relevant stakeholders such as housing support staff. # Provides individual and group treatment with selected clients of the mental health and substance use program by collaborating with inter-professional team members to determine recovery priorities and goals, and providing group leadership/co-leadership to meet psycho-education, skill development, and other needs. # Identifies appropriate Frame of Reference for intervention/treatment and reviews assessment results, develops treatment goals with the client and treatment team, identifies resources required for treatment, including tests, materials and equipment, initiates the required funding requests, and provides individual treatments as required to restore, develop, or maintain occupational performance/functional responsibilities. # Assists in the provision of education regarding rehabilitation and recovery to mental health & substance use program staff.

Identifies education needs and/or provides education to service providers, and assists in the development of training workshops to meet their identified needs. # Applies psychosocial rehabilitation approach with mental health & substance use program clients/consumers to facilitate clients’ effective entry and participation in psychosocial rehabilitation, education, employment, and leisure programs, and provides information to assist the most responsible clinician in facilitating the client’s effective rehabilitation. # Supports overall service delivery of the program through joint planning, responding to team priorities, and providing verbal and written reports regarding the progress towards program goals to the team coordinator. # plans, develops and coordinates the development of rehabilitation programs in consultation and collaboration with clients, team members, other professionals, service providers and families; Represents their program, service area,



or profession on Fraser Health and local committees on the development of rehabilitation policy, program planning and standards. Coordinates rehabilitation resources, including but not limited to, Peer Support, Therapeutic Volunteer and Rehabilitation Fund programs. # In consultation with the Coordinator and Manager, reviews the services of contracted rehabilitation programs by identifying strengths and areas which need improvement, strengthening existing partnerships and if necessary recommends corrective action, and developing new partnerships to provide rehabilitative services. # Collaborates with community agencies and communicates to provide specialized information regarding roles and services, and to support capacity development of programs and services for the client group. Acts as a consultant/resource regarding psychosocial rehabilitation to community agencies and services funded by Mental Health & Substance Use Services to provide rehabilitation, and to those that provide education, training, employment services and recreation services to Mental Health consumers. # Supervises as preceptor to occupational therapy students as required. # Current full registration with the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC.

Two (2) years recent related experience working in a community mental health and/or substance use setting, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Class V Driver's License and access to a personal vehicle for business purposes. Working knowledge of current psychiatric rehabilitation, psychosocial approaches, and recovery practices.

Demonstrated knowledge of the major categories of mental illness and substance use and their appropriate rehabilitation treatments. Demonstrated ability to use activity analysis to assess occupational performance and modify the activity, environment, or supports to enable occupation. Demonstrated ability to operate related equipment such as computers including applicable software applications within the context of remote/virtual delivery of care.

Ability to collaborate and work effectively in a community team setting, as well as independently. Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with clients, families and other members of the health care team and community agencies.

About Fraser Health Fraser

Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers. We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce.

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📌 Community Occupational Therapist - Mental Health & Substance Use - All Community and Tertiary S[...] (Port Coquitlam)
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