Correctional Health Services Careers
Correctional Health Services (CHS) is a province-wide, specialized service providing care for clients who are incarcerated in one of British Columbia’s ten correctional facilities.
Correctional Health Services clients receive health care services including medical and nursing care, primary care, mental health and substance use treatment support, basic emergency response service, opioid antagonist treatments and care, dentistry, and post-discharge supports.
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All care is provided in a non-judgmental, equitable environment, under the firm belief that everyone deserves to access health care treatments and to heal.
Join our dedicated, compassionate, multi-disciplinary team, where safety comes first and you make a difference every single day. CHS offers diverse career opportunities including nurses, physicians, dentists, social workers, psychologists, Indigenous patient navigators, specialized team members who help patients transition back into the community, and more.
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Mental health and substance use care at Corrections
Learn what the Correctional Health Services team loves about the work they do and how they help facilitate client recovery and community transition.
Explore correctional health career paths
Four of the many roles that make up our interdisciplinary teams supporting correctional health patients are peer support workers, nurses, physicians, and community transition team members.
Becoming a peer support worker can be a rewarding path with meaningful outcomes. If you're interested in becoming a peer support worker at Correctional Health Services, watch Steven's testimonial below to learn how being a peer support worker has been a full circle moment for him. He shares first hand how the health care staff at CHS helped him transition back into community, and how he's now giving back as a peer support worker.
Take your nursing to the next level and provide trauma-informed care to clients presenting with a wide variety and complexity of acute and chronic illnesses/diseases, including communicable diseases, substance dependency, and mental health and general health issues.
Work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary, collaborative health care team, liaising with other health care professionals, clients, family members, and community agencies to provide clients with safe and effective care.
Our physicians work with world-class teams in supporting mental health and substance use across BC. We’re looking for those with experience in addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry. Grow your medical career with us at Correctional Health Services and work with a multidisciplinary team that provides the level of nursing and administrative support you need.
The community transition teams help people with mental health and opioid-use disorders transition back into their communities after release from a corrections facility. They work with clients for up to 90 days following their release to connect with a community physician, fill prescriptions, and access other community supports. We have various roles including social workers, psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, Indigenous patient navigators and more.
Your safety is a priority
Hear first hand from our staff about how safe it is to work in Correctional Health Services. We have support in place when it comes to your safety including safety alarms, correctional officers, and correctional staff on-site to ensure the environment is safe.