Registered Nurse - Mental Health - Kingston, Ontario
- Kingston, ON, Canada
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Job details
- Experience
- Minimum 7 years RN experience
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
Registered Nurse - Mental Health
Kingston, Ontario
In-Person Contract Assignments. You Decide Which Positions /Locations You Accept.
After-Hours and Weekends Paid At Automatic Premium
Multiple Positions
What You Will Be Doing:
- Providing nursing care to individuals with mental illness, concurrent disorders, and complex presentations
- Crisis assessment and de-escalation in institutional and community settings
- Supporting care coordination between facility staff, mental health providers, and the external community services
- Navigating consent under the Health Care Consent Act - working with patients who may lack capacity
- Maintaining clinical documentation in compliance with PHIPA
- Health promotion and patient education for individuals with mental health conditions
- Collaboration with correctional officers, youth workers, school staff, and community providers, as applicable to the setting
Must-Haves:
- CNO registered, in good standing
- Minimum 7 years RN experience
- Inpatient psychiatric, community mental health, or crisis intervention experience
- Working knowledge of HCCA (Health Care Consent Act) - you have navigated consent with patients lacking capacity
- PHIPA knowledge - you handle personal health information in compliance with Ontario privacy law
- Experience with involuntary or non-voluntary patients
- Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing - RN diploma or BScN
- Current BLS / BCLS certification
- Legal right to work in Canada
- Available for in-person assignments - this is not remote work
Preferred:
- CRPN designation (Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing)
- ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)
- NVCI (Non-Violent Crisis Intervention) training
- Experience with Indigenous populations or Indigenous cultural safety training
- ACT team (Assertive Community Treatment) or crisis response team background
- Experience with homeless, street-involved, or marginalized populations
- Experience at: CAMH (Toronto), Royal Ottawa, Ontario Shores (Whitby), Waypoint Center, Brockville Mental Health Center
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Registered Nurse at Source Code will provide mental health nursing care, assess and de-escalate crises, and coordinate care with facility staff and community services. They will also navigate consent for patients who may lack capacity and keep clinical records that comply with privacy law.
Requirements
Candidates need current CNO registration in good standing, at least 7 years of RN experience, and inpatient psychiatric, community mental health or crisis experience. They must also know the Health Care Consent Act and PHIPA, have worked with involuntary patients, hold current BLS or BCLS, and be legally able to work in Canada.
Skills
- Mental health nursing
- Psychiatric nursing
- Crisis assessment
- De-escalation
- Suicide risk assessment
- Health Care Consent Act
- PHIPA
- Clinical documentation
- Patient education
- Care coordination
- Health promotion
- Capacity assessment
- Involuntary patient care
- Non-violent crisis intervention
- BLS
- BCLS
- ASIST
- Indigenous cultural safety
- Assertive Community Treatment
Benefits
- Automatic premium pay for after-hours and weekend shifts
- Choice of assignments and locations
Categories
- Healthcare
- Social Services
- Customer Service & Support
Keywords
- Registered Nurse
- mental health nursing
- psychiatric nursing
- crisis intervention
- de-escalation
- Health Care Consent Act
- HCCA
- PHIPA
- CNO
- CRPN
- BLS
- BCLS
- ASIST
- NVCI
- Indigenous cultural safety
- ACT team
- contract nursing
- locum
- in-person
- Kingston
Seniority
Senior
Licences and certifications
- BLS
- BCLS
- CRPN
- ASIST
- NVCI
Languages
- English
Fields of study
- Nursing