Registered Practical Nurse, Emergency Mental Health and Addiction Services (EMHAS)
Overview
As a Registered Practical Nurse, you will be an integral part of a collaborative, inter-disciplinary team focused on delivering seamless services and programs to our clients and customers. If you are looking for a company that is constantly moving forward in pursuit of successful outcomes, get ready to love it here!
What you'll be doing
• Provide care based on a crisis model of care with a bio-psychosocial approach in a safe environment
• Manage crisis and emergency situations in an Emergency Department environment
• Administer psychiatric, and non-psychiatric medications and treatments
• Provide group facilitation
• Assess and prevent suicide and manage aggressive behaviour through non-violent crisis intervention techniques
• Engage with interdisciplinary teams and individual team members as appropriate
• Act as a preceptor, mentor, coach, or resource nurse as appropriate
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation and reports
• Participate in clinical discussions, team meetings, and patient/family conferences
Qualifications
• Licensed with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• 2+ years’ of experience in Mental Health/Acute Assessment/Community Crisis care
• Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and community health resources
• CPR/Basic rescuer
• Experience with group facilitation
• Sound clinical judgment based on current best practices, and patient centered care
• Applied understanding of Mental Status Exam, and Crisis management
• Knowledge of CBT/DBT is an asset
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong inter-personal skills and respectful communication style with patients, families and staff
Contact
Please apply through Homewood Health Careers Site:
http://clients.njoyn.com/CL3/xweb/xweb.asp?clid=52109&page=jobdetails&j…