Assertive Community Treatment nursing at Vancouver Coastal Health brings psychiatric assessment and counseling into community-based care. Support clients experiencing reliable and persistent mental health or substance use challenges.
As a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse, you provide intensive, continuous outreach through a transdisciplinary team. The work combines treatment, rehabilitation, and support services while promoting recovery, wellness, harm reduction, and access to care. You assess needs, address high-risk situations, and coordinate services across the continuum.
Key Responsibilities: Deliver intensive community-based treatment and rehabilitation support
Assess psychiatric, physical, psychological, and social needs
Provide counseling and crisis intervention during high-risk situations




Coordinate case conferences and interdisciplinary care planning
Support access to health care and social services
Requirements: Current BCCNM registration as a Registered Nurse or RPN
Two years’ related mental health and substance use experience
Knowledge of recovery-focused mental health and substance use care
Demonstrated psychiatric assessment and treatment planning ability
Ability to work independently and collaboratively
Use psychiatric nursing, crisis intervention, and recovery-focused coordination skills to support Vancouver Coastal Health ACT clients.

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📌 Assertive Community Treatment Nurse (British Columbia)
🏢 Vancouver Coastal Health
📍 British Columbia