Registered Nurse -3G Child & Youth Inpatient Mental Health

Job summary

The Registered Nurse provides direct care to children and youth with complex mental health issues, including crisis management and therapeutic interventions. They are also responsible for medication management, patient education, and contributing to quality assurance and research projects.

Job details

The Registered Nurse (RN) functions as a valuable member working primarily within the CYMHP inpatient service, providing care to children and youth with complex mental health issues. The RN is key in leading patient care, including but not limited to, establishment of effective therapeutic relationships, utilization of developmentally appropriate approaches to care, mental status examination, crisis management, implementation and evaluation of therapeutic interventions, and coordination of services. The RN offers mental health teaching to children, youth and families, demonstrates knowledge of all Ontario legislation that guides mental health care and is responsible for meeting the medical needs of clients, including medication management and education. The RN contributes to new and ongoing research and quality assurance projects. Current Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Nurse Evidence of a minimum of one (1) year recent experience within the past two (2) years in a high-acuity inpatient child and youth mental health setting as a Registered Nurse required Current Certification in Crisis Intervention Training Demonstrated expertise in crisis intervention, suicide risk assessment, behavioural de-escalation, and management of child and youth psychiatric emergencies Demonstrated ability to provide care in a fast-paced, high-acuity inpatient mental health environment Demonstrated clinical judgment in the assessment and management of children and adolescents with severe mental health, behavioural, and emotional disorders. Demonstrated ability to respond effectively to behavioural escalation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, aggression, and other acute psychiatric presentations. Demonstrated knowledge of child and youth mental health services Demonstrated knowledge of psychopharmacology Demonstrated knowledge in developmental psychology and psychopathology Demonstrated knowledge of the mental health act, substitute decisions act, health care consent act, Personal Health Information Protection Act Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and establish therapeutic relationships with clients and team members Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team Evidence of self-motivation, enthusiasm, and flexibility

What you’ll do

The Registered Nurse provides direct care to children and youth with complex mental health issues, including crisis management and therapeutic interventions. They are also responsible for medication management, patient education, and contributing to quality assurance and research projects.

Requirements

Candidates must have current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario and at least one year of recent experience in a high-acuity inpatient child and youth mental health setting. Certification in Crisis Intervention Training is also required.

Listed skills

• crisis intervention · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Crisis intervention
• Suicide risk assessment
• Behavioural de-escalation
• Mental status examination
• Psychopharmacology
• Developmental psychology
• Psychopathology
• Medication management
• Therapeutic relationships
• Clinical judgment
• Patient care coordination
• Mental health legislation
• Psychiatric emergency management
• Multidisciplinary collaboration
• Therapeutic Interventions
• De-escalation Techniques
• Ideation
• Emotional Disorders
• Self-Motivation
• Research
• Psychiatry
• Teaching
• Mental Health
• Management
• Developmental Psychology
• Community Mental Health Services
• Communication
• Crisis Intervention
• Crisis Management
• High Acuity Medicine
• Medication Administration
• Mental Status Examination
• Presentations
• Quality Assurance
• Assessment Of Suicide Risk
• Coordinating
• Mental Health Act
• Enthusiasm

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Social Services
• Science & Research
• Inpatient Registered Nurse
• Registered Nurse (General)
• Nursing Professionals
• Registered Nurses