Patrice Fugah

Providing operational leadership for mental health and substance use rehabilitation and recovery clinicians embedded in mental health centres within the Fraser Health Region, Supporting role development and expansion for Clinical Practice Leads and Educators for Occupational Therapy, Disciplines Allied to Social Work (DASW) and Nursing with the MHSU Community Services in the Fraser Health region. Advancing the reach of the FH Family Support Services by working with stakeholders and Communications Department within FH to create community awareness of the availability of the service and also recruiting members for the Regional Family Advisory Community who supports FH MHSU in deepening the delivery of client and family centred care.

Provide oversight for contracts with 11 Club Houses and 6 specialized contracted service providers to support recovery oriented services for MHSU clients

• Programs in Portfolio are:

Early Intervention in Psychosis Team, (built program from conceptualization to implementation)

Older Adult Mental Health Team,

Geriatric Assessment Program,

MHSU Central Intake,

Concurrent Disorders Counseling Team,

MHSU OPD,

Richmond Short Term Assessment and Treatment Team (RSTAT),

Hand Therapy Clinic and Outpatients Rehab Services

• Coached team members on productivity strategies, policy updates and performance improvement plans to accomplish challenging goals.
• Monitored progress of programs, using and applying programming documents, program directives, funding documents and other program material.
• Addressed and resolved operational concerns by working with team members and directors.

• Programs in Portfolio were:

Acute Care for the Elderly

Acute Medicine and Stroke Unit,

Occupational Therapy and Social Work teams

LPN and PCA Float and Casual Pools,

• Coached team members on productivity strategies, policy updates and performance improvement plans to accomplish challenging goals.
• Collaborated with families and community partners to facilitate prompt and safe discharges from hospital
• Providing leadership for 168 staff
• Maintained viable float and casual pools of LPNs and PCAs to meet hospital wide demands.

• Team Leader for Richmond MHSU OPD and Richmond Short Term Assessment and Treatment Team
• Supported safe, effective and quality care delivery to patients/clients and their families
• Supported physicians and interdisciplinary team in accessing community resources for patients and their supports, and, facilitated family engagement processes to support working in partnership values
• Provided leadership for team of nurses and allied staff to meet service delivery mandates.
• Provided supervision for 68

• Reporting to Patient Services Manager, role involved working as part of team supporting mental health units with coaching, mentoring and supervising of junior staff and student nurses on placement
• Providing clinical consultation and expertise to teams in designated inpatient areas within Vancouver General and UBC Hospitals.
• Proved successful working within tight deadlines and fast-paced atmosphere

• Reporting to Program Manager, the role involved coordinating client care activities and needs to meet service mandates
• Provided leadership for interdisciplinary team of nurses, allied and support staff
• Provided leadership for initiating and sustaining family and client engagement activities to support client transition and discharge processes.

• Reporting to Program Coordinator, role involved completing learning needs assessment for nursing staff and supporting access to relevant training and learning resources
• Initiated reflection in practice processes for staff, and, medication self administration and management processes for clients
• Supported with recruitment and retention processes for the program.

• Reporting to Director of Quality Assuarance, role involved leading teams of surveyors on accreditation and quality inspection visits to healthcare facilities registered or seeking registration with the National Health Insurance scheme of Ghana
• Contract surveyed 86 facilities, both public and private through out the ten regions of the Ghana.

• Reporting to Program Lead, role involved implementing national strategy for sustaining engagement with difficult to engage clients with first episode psychosis
• Developed comprehensive template for interdisciplinary reports for mental health act review tribunals for the team
• Developed template for triaging referrals to the team.

• Reporting to Program Director, role involved working with adolescent males on probation for various offences and mandated to live in halfway houses as part of their rehabilitation program
• Worked with probation and immigration officers to facilitate humane repatriation of some of the young persons to their countries of origin in a way that supports their mental health needs.

• Reporting to Program Lead, role involved assessing and coordinating care for young people (16-33) experiencing first onset psychosis
• Took on team leader role for 9 months
• Participated in Poster Presentation at the 2nd International Early Psychosis Intervention Conference in Vancouver, Canada in Oct.

• Took over class for regular classroom teacher, managing assignments, student needs and recordkeeping.
• Delivered personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
• Developed lesson plans that incorporated mandated topics and included immersive activities for student engagement.
• Monitored classrooms for safety and good behavior, offering students positive reinforcement to maintain discipline.

• Reporting to Charge Nurses/Unit Supervisors, role involved assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating care for different patient groups across the health authority.