Director - Mental Health and Substance Use

Mental Health and Substance Use

Regular Full Time

Posting Date: June 30, 2025

Location: Surrey, BC

Wage: $67.38-$75.84 per hour

Hours of Work: 35 hours per week

Closing Date: July 30, 2025

Options Community Services is a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering social services across the Southern Fraser region (Surrey, Delta, White Rock and Langley) from early childhood to seniors. Our comprehensive range of programs and services relies on collaborative relationships with individuals, businesses, community groups and government bodies to create focused, effective and responsive resources for the community.

Are you a visionary leader passionate about making a real difference in mental health and substance use care? Join Options Community Services as our Director of Mental Health and Substance Use, where you’ll lead innovative programs, champion trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches, and collaborate with community partners to improve lives every day.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the successful candidate will provide strategic leadership and oversight for comprehensive mental health and addiction services, ensuring alignment with best practices, funding requirements, and organizational goals. They will lead program development, policy, research, and service delivery—focusing on trauma-informed, harm reduction, and culturally responsive approaches—while ensuring equitable access for diverse communities. The role also includes managing budgets and contracts, fostering partnerships with government and community stakeholders, advocating for systemic improvements, supervising staff, and guiding crisis response efforts. Additionally, the Director drives continuous quality improvement through evaluation, compliance monitoring, and public communication.

The ideal candidate will have a Master’s degree in social work, psychology, public health, mental health administration, or a related field. Additional training in trauma-informed care, harm reduction, project management, or Indigenous cultural safety is considered an asset.

They should also have 7–10 years of leadership experience in mental health, addiction, or social services, with proven expertise in managing large budgets, contracts, and funding agreements. The candidate will possess extensive experience supporting individuals with complex mental health and substance use needs, including concurrent disorders, and have strong knowledge of Harm Reduction, Housing First, and Trauma-Informed Care models.

Additionally, they demonstrate skills in policy development, strategic planning, program implementation, and building partnerships with Indigenous communities, healthcare providers, government agencies, and equity-deserving groups such as LGBTQ2S+ and racialized populations.

This role requires the incumbent to undergo a Police Information Check (PIC), and a Vulnerable Sector Check by the Ministry of Justice.

We thank all applicants for their interest in working with OCS. Due to the volume of applicants, only those qualified and shortlisted will be contacted.

The land which we are on is the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples including Kwantlen, Katzie, Matsqui, Musqueam, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Kwikwetlem and the Sto:lo Nations.