Job Description
The Island Health Department of Psychiatry has an opportunity for a Psychiatrist to provide ambulatory and outreach care through the Crisis and Transitional Care Team.
This program aims to stabilize individuals and families experiencing acute mental health, situational, or substance use–related crisis through rapid, multidisciplinary trauma informed interventions that prioritize safety, dignity, and access to care recognizing the complex and intersecting needs of people in crisis. The program aims to reduce reliance on police responses and hospital admissions by offering client-centered community-based care.
The Crisis and Transitional Care Team is a multi-disciplinary team of clinical staff who provide urgent response to people of all ages in community in crisis (psychiatric, medical w psychiatric/substance use features, situational, environmental).
We accept referrals from any source, most commonly self referrals; crisis line(s), other health teams, c...