Job Description
Horticulture Therapist, Minimum and Medium Security Units
BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services
Coquitlam, BC
This Regular Full-Time opportunity is with the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital. The Horticulture Therapist plans, develops, implements, and evaluates patient therapeutic garden programs and provides horticulture therapy to promote, maintain, and restore patient’s mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health and fit the specific needs of forensic patients who have complex mental health illnesses and may have co-occurring substance use issues and medical conditions.
What is the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital?
The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital (FPH) is a 190-bed secure facility located in Coquitlam, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded core territory of the kwikwəƛ̓əm First Nation (Kwikwetlem). We treat people who have been found not criminally responsible for a crime or unfit to stand trial due to a mental health disorde...