Mental Health Substance Use Nurses deliver counselling, crisis intervention, and nursing care for clients with concurrent disorders. Fraser Health supports community-based services.

As a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse, you will provide flexible, inclusionary treatment and care management. Responsibilities include mental health and substance use assessments, individualized care plans, medication administration, withdrawal monitoring, and referrals. Care emphasizes culturally secure, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented practice and continuity across services.

Key Responsibilities:

- Assess mental state, substance use, treatment response, and withdrawal symptoms
- Develop and adjust individualized treatment and service plans
- Provide outreach nursing in homes, primary care, and alternative settings




- Assist clients with appointments, transportation, forms, and community services
- Participate in case conferences and interprofessional care coordination

Requirements:

- Approved nursing or psychiatric nursing education
- Two years’ recent related treatment-services experience or equivalent preparation
- Current practicing BCCNM registration
- Counselling, group facilitation, and effective communication skills
- Ability to organize work and collaborate with care teams

Use nursing assessment, substance use knowledge, and therapeutic engagement to support coordinated community mental health care.

📌 Mental Health Substance Use Nurse (Canada)
🏢 Fraser Health Authority
📍 Canada