Registered Practical Nurse - Downtown West FACT
About The Position
The Complex Care & Recovery Program is currently seeking a full-time, temporary (12 months) Registered Practical Nurse to work with the Downtown West Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Team (FACT). As a member of a community based inter-professional team, you will provide client-centred psychiatric and general nursing care. In addition, you will practice in accordance with the regulatory standards, and CAMH Policies and Practice Model, and the Canadian Standards of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice. The team follows an inter-professional field-based case management model of recovery-oriented mental health care and provides intensive psychiatric treatment; medication administration and monitoring; and rehabilitation and support services for individuals with serious mental illness and complex needs who find it difficult to engage in other mental health services. In addition, the team helps clients to access community services and assists them with activities of daily living. The goal is to support these individuals in their desire to live in the community by providing responsive, assertive and frequent contact, and ultimately to transition them to a less intensive level of care in the community. Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system – a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca. To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here.
Requirements
- Registered Practical Nurse qualification
- Experience in psychiatric and mental health nursing practice
Responsibilities
- Provide client-centred psychiatric and general nursing care.
- Practice in accordance with regulatory standards, CAMH Policies and Practice Model, and Canadian Standards of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice.
- Provide intensive psychiatric treatment.
- Administer and monitor medication.
- Provide rehabilitation and support services for individuals with serious mental illness and complex needs.
- Help clients access community services.
- Assist clients with activities of daily living.
- Support individuals in their desire to live in the community through responsive, assertive, and frequent contact.
- Transition clients to a less intensive level of care in the community.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
