Psychiatry

Job summary

Provide on-site and outreach primary care and addiction medicine services to clients with complex medical, mental health, and substance use needs, including assessment, treatment, referrals, and harm reduction. Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and program psychiatrist, and teach medical students and residents.

Job details

Role and Facility Information The Nanaimo Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) program are looking for an Addiction Medicine, Family Physician to provide part-time services with the Complex Care Housing (CCH) Team in Nanaimo. Services will occur on site at three supportive housing locations in Nanaimo: Samaritan Place, Wesley Street and Prideaux Place. The patient population is complex, difficult to house individuals with moderate to severe mental health, substance use or chronic medical co-morbidities, behaviour problems, history of violence, hoarding (etc) in order to support individuals to retain housing. The successful candidate will provide General Practitioner (GP) Addiction Medicine Services to clients living with complex medical conditions including persistent mental health and/or substance use disorders to all CCH clients at Tillicum Apartments as well as at various locations as required in an outreach setting. Services to be provided include: Primary care for acute and chronic medical conditions, screening and treatment of STI’s and viral blood-borne illnesses, specialty referrals as appropriate; Addiction medicine services including assessment and provision of OAT, alcohol anti-craving medications, Safer Supply, harm reduction, possibly low-risk alcohol withdrawal management; Mental health support in collaboration with program Psychiatrist including assessment, referral, continuation of psychiatric medications. Physician must have methadone prescribing ability, and preferably advanced AM skills The successful candidate, as part of the multidisciplinary CCH team, will works in collaboration with Nursing, Social Work, Metal Health Support workers, Occupational Therapy as well as peer support workers & persons with lived and living experience. Island Health is part of the UBC Faculty of Medicine Island Medical Program. The successful candidate will be required to provide teaching and training for medical students and residents. A clinical faculty appointment at UBC is necessary. Start Date As soon as possible Benefits Furnished office space, computer and administrative support provided. Community Information Nanaimo, an exciting urban community with a breathtaking waterfront, provides an opportunity to enjoy an active exciting lifestyle with a multitude of year-round recreational opportunities including golf, mountain biking and walking trails, kayaking, paddle boarding and sailing, or dive to explore three artificial reefs created by wrecks sunk in the harbour. In winter, both downhill and cross-country skiing can be enjoyed at Mount Washington, just 1.5 hours north. This vibrant, growing city of 120,000, is a great place to raise a family and boasts its own symphony and theater, offers post-secondary education at the Vancouver Island University, is just 15 minutes by seaplane or ferry to downtown Vancouver and a pleasant drive to Victoria. Request Info Terms Compensation Compensation Type Clinical Service Contract Request Info

What you’ll do

Provide on-site and outreach primary care and addiction medicine services to clients with complex medical, mental health, and substance use needs, including assessment, treatment, referrals, and harm reduction. Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and program psychiatrist, and teach medical students and residents.

Requirements

The physician must be able to prescribe methadone; advanced addiction medicine skills are preferred. A clinical faculty appointment at UBC is necessary, and the role includes teaching and training medical students and residents.

Benefits

• Furnished Office Space • Computer • Administrative Support

Listed skills

• interdisciplinary collaboration · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Addiction Medicine
• Family Medicine
• Primary Care
• Opioid Agonist Therapy
• Methadone Prescribing
• Safer Supply
• Harm Reduction
• Alcohol Withdrawal Management
• Mental Health Assessment
• Psychiatric Medication Management
• Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening and Treatment
• Viral Blood-Borne Illness Screening and Treatment
• Chronic Disease Management
• Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Medical Education
• Outreach Care

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Education
• Social Services