cmhadurham
Registered Nurse (RN) NIGHT SHIFT FULL TIME
Oshawa, Ontario · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
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About the role
- This position is community clinic-based serving those who are homeless or precariously housed with a focus on specialized care for complex individuals.
Responsibilities
- Performs venipuncture and wound care daily
- Manages multiple nursing interventions simultaneously in rapidly changing situations
- Implements plans of care for highly complex clients in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team at HART Hub
Requirements
- Valid First Aid/CPR and/or Basic Life Support required
- Sound knowledge of psychotropic medications including usage and potential side effects
- Ability to acquire and utilize community resources effectively to meet client's needs
- Ability to resolve complex client problems to ensure a high standard of nursing service
- Ability to work independently when necessary
- Ability to think critically and creatively
- Ability to work a variable schedule which may include evenings and weekends as required
- Ability to adapt to change and navigate through ambiguous situations
- Intermediate proficiency in French considered an asset.
- Work outside of normal business hours as required
- Registered Nursing Diploma or Degree and a minimum of two years related mental health experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Membership in the Ontario College of Nurses' Association and the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
- Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Health Care Consent Act, Internal agency and other related legislation in Ontario
- Ability to develop and maintain positive relationships clients, community, partners, employees and always represent the agency in a professional manner
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills and ability to formally present information to individuals or groups to develop, implement and monitor nursing care plans and attend meetings
- Excellent assessment and organizational skills
- Flexibility to adapt to change
- Ability to make accurate nursing assessments and implement best practices
Nice to have
- Knowledge of Indigenous communities and cultural practices (preferred).
Benefits
- Performs triage assessments and comprehensive mental health and addictions assessments
- Assessments are holistic and include relevant medical, psychiatric and social domains
- Facilitates access to mental health and addictions services including diagnosis, treatment, counselling (individual, group), and ongoing evaluation.
Company info
- Canadian Mental Health Association Durham is an integrated community mental health and primary care hub that has been providing mental health services to Durham Region for over 60 years.
- During that time, it has evolved to provide a broad range of services to individuals and their families experiencing mental health challenges, from information and education to case management, psychosocial rehabilitation, housing and primary healthcare. These services are provided through inter-professional teams focused on providing clinically based services that, in addition to dealing with client mental health issues, address social determinants of health using the recovery model.
- Overview of the Role:
- Reporting to the HART Hub Lead, this individual will have responsibility to provide outstanding primary care nursing services for marginalized clients, who may have severe and persistent mental illness and addictions, across the lifespan. This position is community clinic-based serving those who are homeless or precariously housed with a focus on specialized care for complex individuals.
- During that time, it has evolved to provide a broad range of services to individuals and their families experiencing mental health challenges, from information and education to case management, psychosocial rehabilitation, housing and primary healthcare.
- These services are provided through inter-professional teams focused on providing clinically based services that, in addition to dealing with client mental health issues, address social determinants of health using the recovery model.
- Reporting to the HART Hub Lead, this individual will have responsibility to provide outstanding primary care nursing services for marginalized clients, who may have severe and persistent mental illness and addictions, across the lifespan.
- West, and will move to the designated HART Hub location in Oshawa at a later date.
- Duties and Responsibilities:
- Direct Client Care
- Participates to full scope as a member of a multidisciplinary clinical team providing nursing services for all clients
- Functions within the HART Hub model in all daily encounters
Equal opportunity
- Please advise us if you require any level of accommodation; we are here to help and support you.
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