Registered Nurse Mental Health Ottawa, Ontario

Registered Nurse - Mental Health

Ottawa 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