Description
Position Information
- Title: Registered Nurse (RPT)
- Position Status: Regular Part-time
- FTE: 0.0
- Job Schedule: Days/Nights/Weekends
- Department: Nursing Resource Team BMHC
- Union: ONA Local 74 (Brockville)
- Site: Brockville Mental Health Centre
- Number of Vacancies: 1
About The Royal
As one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, The Royal has a clear purpose: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. This is at the core of everything we do and it is driven by the passion, focus and dedication of our employees. Every day, the work that we do transforms the lives of people with mental illness through specialized mental healthcare, advocacy, research and education.
The Royal is currently recruiting for multiple positions. The Royal will contact all qualified candidates to further explore preference(s).
The Integrated Forensic Program delivers specialized mental health care for individuals with mental illnesses who have come into contact with the criminal justice system or who are at risk of doing so. We provide assessment and treatment services to improve our clients’ mental health and reduce their risk of re-offending. Our Brockville site offers 2 primary programs within the Integrated Forensic Program – a Secure Treatment Unit (STU) and a Forensic Treatment Unit (FTU).
The Secure Treatment Unit (STU)
The St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre-Secure Treatment Unit is a 100-bed hybrid correctional facility and mental health centre located on the same campus of the Brockville Mental Health Centre. This facility serves 25 other provincial correctional facilities from across Ontario, and provides comprehensive mental health and criminogenic needs assessments, treatment and discharge planning services for seriously mentally ill adult male offenders serving a provincial sentence (less than two years).
The Forensic Treatment Unit (FTU)
The Forensic Treatment Unit provides secure inpatient and outpatient services to individuals under the jurisdiction of the Ontario Review Board (ORB). This includes people found Not Criminally Responsible or not fit to stand trial.
Job Description
The Royal is currently seeking Registered Nurses (RN). The RN will have a sound knowledge of clinical issues in the area of mental health and addiction and will provide specialized care to patients with complex mental illnesses.
Responsibilities include the provision of supportive nursing care consistent with patient treatment/rehabilitation needs and goals. In doing so, the RN will develop and implement, in conjunction with an interdisciplinary treatment team, creative treatment plans responsive to individual needs, and identify and coordinate the provision of services and resources, in collaboration with affiliate and community partners, advocating to safeguard the person in care’s entitlements and rights. The RN will also provide a safe, therapeutic environment including crisis management and emergency nursing care.
Qualifications
- Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- BSc.N preferred.
- Certification in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing is preferred.
- Previous nursing experience working in psychiatric/mental health specialization is preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Health Care Consent Act, and Substitute Decision Act.
- Safety and Security in the Workplace Training (candidate must agree to complete prior to start date if this qualification is not met).
- Able to demonstrate knowledge and skill in psychiatric nursing practice as articulated in the Canadian Standards of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice.
- Able to meet the Standards of nursing practice of the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- Recognized leadership skills with the ability to build the inter-disciplinary team approach to delivering interventions.
- Valid drivers’ license, if required.
- English level A- is mandatory in oral expression, oral comprehension, reading comprehension and written expression. Bilingual is an asset.
Additional Information
All applicants must provide a recent resume that clearly indicate that they meet the required qualifications.
Please apply by clicking on the Apply button below.
The Royal sincerely thanks all applicants for their interest in a career with us; however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
All new hires will be required to obtain a clear and valid Criminal Record or Vulnerable Sector Records Check as a pre-condition of employment.
The Royal is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, accommodations due to a disability are available throughout the recruitment process.
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