Mental Health Care Worker, Emergency - Mental Health & Substance Use Zone - Burnaby Hospital

Fraser Health Authority

Burnaby, BC

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Description

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $30.72 - $30.72 / hour
Job Summary

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby.

The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces

New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine, and mental health patients

New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces

New acute care tower with 160 beds

New medical imaging department

New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety of health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and plastics specialties.

We are currently hiring for a casual Mental Health Care Worker, Emergency - Mental Health & Substance Use Zone to join our Emergency Department at Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C.

Experience the exceptional benefits of working with us including:

Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.

Generous Vacation Time: Eligible employees can start earning up to four weeks of vacation in your first year.

Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.

Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.

Maternity Top-Up: Receive a top-up during maternity leave.

TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes

Additional employee discounts and perks available

*Eligibility based on employment status

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

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Detailed Overview

Under supervision of the Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse, assists in routine care of patients during psychosocial rehabilitative care/treatment within the Mental Health Substance Use Zone of the Emergency Department. Assists in maintaining a safe environment and provides ongoing monitoring of patients' status. As required, assists patients to undertake activities of daily living including organizing personal belongings and doing personal laundry.
Responsibilities

Working under the direction of the Patient Care Coordinator participates in the stabilization, rehabilitation and care of psychiatric patients by providing personal care, teaching simple social skills, escorting patients and monitoring activities.
Provides direct personal care by assisting patients with bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, prosthetics and elimination. Escorts patients for treatment, diagnostic procedures or transfers.
Assists patients at meal time, while monitoring their safety, by providing assistance with meal trays and assisting with feeding of selected patients as required.
Assists patients to undertake activities of daily living (ADL) including assisting patients to organize personal belongings and do personal laundry. Assists patients with retrieving personal care supplies from storage area as required.
Provides one to one personal care and observation of specific patients as directed by the Patient Care Coordinator. Assists with care of the patient in the seclusion room as directed by the Patient Care Coordinator such as assisting with ADL activities and delivering food.
Reports observations of patients' conditions to the Nursing staff and care team in accordance with established procedures/practice by recording observations on the patient health care record at the direction of the nursing staff. Participates in meetings such as ward rounds and team meetings, as directed, by providing feedback on observations related to work done with specific patients.
Working under the direction of the RN/RPN, facilitates patients' participation in psychosocial rehabilitation activities by participating in individual activities with patients.
Participates in orientation to the zone by familiarizing patients, families, new staff, volunteers, and students with the layout of the zone, patient rooms and zone routines
Maintains zone safety by assisting with routine search of room and client belongings as directed by nursing staff.
Performs procedures such as weighing patients, monitoring nutritional and fluid intake and elimination and collecting specimens. Records observations and reports problems and/or changes to the Registered Psychiatric Nurse/Registered Nurse.
Assists patients with retrieval/storage and/or relocation of personal effects.
Transports patients utilizing mechanical aids such as wheelchairs and stretchers.
Participates in quality improvement activities by providing input and feedback on department initiatives.
Assists in providing patients with a safe, secure environment by checking and ensuring the zone is uncluttered and reporting unsafe and hazardous conditions. Follows employer's established procedures to ensure patient safety.
Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Grade ten plus graduation from a recognized Mental Health Care Worker program or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Ability to deal with others effectively.
Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
Ability to organize work.
Ability to operate related equipment.

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.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. 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 work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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