Crisis response and psychological first aid define this full-time Vancouver position with PHSA, supporting people after critical incidents and overdoses.

As a Crisis Intervention Specialist, you provide psychosocial outreach, trauma-informed care, and community support. You facilitate training, coordinate defusings, and analyze service evaluation data. The work supports resilience, emotional wellness, and peer-led psychosocial programs across British Columbia.

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide individual and group support after critical incidents
- Facilitate psychological first aid and trauma response training
- Deliver community defusings and debriefings following incidents
- Administer Naloxone and train community members




- Collect and analyze service evaluation data

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent
- Five years’ recent crisis response, mental health, and addiction experience
- Knowledge of overdose response and crisis management
- Robust communication, diplomacy, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
- Valid British Columbia driver’s license and extensive travel availability

Support PHSA communities through crisis intervention, psychological first aid, Naloxone education, and trauma-informed psychosocial services.

📌 Crisis Response Specialist Vancouver
🏢 Sanya’k̓ula
📍 Vancouver