Fraser Health is embracing virtual methods to enhance patient care. This position provides entirely virtual clinical services!

The Virtual Psychiatrist Unit represents a novel approach to delivering acute mental health and substance use care to clients across the Fraser Health Region. This innovative program offers the opportunity to work within a team-based, inter‑professional care environment where care is administered to acute patients directly in their homes and via virtual channels.

As a qualified or eligible Psychiatrist, you will be tasked with delivering top‑tier care to adult patients served by Fraser Health, as part of an interdisciplinary team. Your responsibilities include consulting at the new Virtual Psychiatry Unit, actively engaging in outreach to patients’ residences, providing fully remote clinical care including virtual on‑call duties (in person attendance for occasional team meetings may be required).

Services encompass assessment, outpatient treatment and consultation, conducting family meetings, organizing case conferences, discharge planning, and educating psychiatry residents and medical students. You will play a crucial role in ensuring continuity of care by fostering positive working relationships with all involved in patient care and advocating for the psychiatric needs of individual patients.

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. We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Entry level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Other
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
• Compensation type: Combination
• Location: Remote (Virtual Psychiatry Unit, Fraser Health Region)
• Terms: Request Info

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