About the role
Job Description
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**.**
The Nursing Resource Unit (NRU) at CAMH is an internal float pool comprised of Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses, and Program Assistants, who deliver exceptional client care across all inpatient units at CAMH, in the event of strategically planned and unplanned staff absences.
Reporting to the NRU Manager, the three (3) full-time, permanent successful applicants will be on-boarded and cross-trained to work across all inpatient clinical areas, including: acute, forensics, rehab, and specialty units (i.e., geriatrics, concurrent youth, medical withdrawal, extended observation).
You will complete a competency-based orientation and then apply and maintain practice-based competencies throughout all clinical assignments. You will provide high-quality nursing care to patients/clients and families and will engage in ongoing and structured learning throughout the NRU to achieve this goal.
As a member of an interprofessional team, you will provide client-centered mental health and addictions, as well as general nursing care. In addition, you will ensure the security and safety of the inpatient unit to which you are assigned, and practice in accordance with professional regulatory standards, CAMH Policies and Professional Practice Model, and the Canadian Standards of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice.
Your skills include the ability to make behavioural observations; perform ongoing physical and mental status assessments; monitor the client’s response to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions; develop, implement and evaluate interprofessional client-centred care plans; and effectively communicate with other team members. You will support and contribute to a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork, and complies with all applicable regulatory and legislative requirements.
The successful applicant will work a rotating schedule that includes 12-hour days (0730-1930), 12-hour nights (1930-0730), and weekends, at the Queen Street site.
Job Requirements
- Must be a member in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Current B.C.L.S. (CPR) certificate is also required
- Preference will be given to candidates who possess, or are currently pursuing a B.Sc.N and CAN certification in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to develop the Nurse-Client relationship and work within a collaborative and diverse interprofessional team
- Effective organizational and problem-solving skills, including a demonstrated ability to think
- Demonstrated ability to intervene effectively in clinical situations requiring the management of disturbed behaviour
- Demonstrated interest in continuous learning and professional development
- Able to work with clients of diverse cultural and social backgrounds is necessary
- Computer literacy is required
- Bilingualism (French/English) and/or proficiency in a second language would be an asset
About CAMH
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
As a teaching hospital, CAMH provides education, training, internships and residencies for students. People training to work in the health care field, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and laboratory technologists, come to CAMH for practical experience.
We believe that Mental Health is Health, and through our work we are building a movement for social change: raising awareness, challenging prejudice, and advocating for public policies that support mental health.
Please note that our social media channels are not monitored 24/7. If you are experiencing thoughts of suicide, you are deserving of help - visit www.camh.ca/gethelp for more information. If you feel safe in the moment, follow up with your family physician or care team. If you require immediate, in-person emergency care, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency department.
About the role
Job Description
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**.**
The Nursing Resource Unit (NRU) at CAMH is an internal float pool comprised of Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses, and Program Assistants, who deliver exceptional client care across all inpatient units at CAMH, in the event of strategically planned and unplanned staff absences.
Reporting to the NRU Manager, the three (3) full-time, permanent successful applicants will be on-boarded and cross-trained to work across all inpatient clinical areas, including: acute, forensics, rehab, and specialty units (i.e., geriatrics, concurrent youth, medical withdrawal, extended observation).
You will complete a competency-based orientation and then apply and maintain practice-based competencies throughout all clinical assignments. You will provide high-quality nursing care to patients/clients and families and will engage in ongoing and structured learning throughout the NRU to achieve this goal.
As a member of an interprofessional team, you will provide client-centered mental health and addictions, as well as general nursing care. In addition, you will ensure the security and safety of the inpatient unit to which you are assigned, and practice in accordance with professional regulatory standards, CAMH Policies and Professional Practice Model, and the Canadian Standards of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Practice.
Your skills include the ability to make behavioural observations; perform ongoing physical and mental status assessments; monitor the client’s response to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions; develop, implement and evaluate interprofessional client-centred care plans; and effectively communicate with other team members. You will support and contribute to a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork, and complies with all applicable regulatory and legislative requirements.
The successful applicant will work a rotating schedule that includes 12-hour days (0730-1930), 12-hour nights (1930-0730), and weekends, at the Queen Street site.
Job Requirements
- Must be a member in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Current B.C.L.S. (CPR) certificate is also required
- Preference will be given to candidates who possess, or are currently pursuing a B.Sc.N and CAN certification in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to develop the Nurse-Client relationship and work within a collaborative and diverse interprofessional team
- Effective organizational and problem-solving skills, including a demonstrated ability to think
- Demonstrated ability to intervene effectively in clinical situations requiring the management of disturbed behaviour
- Demonstrated interest in continuous learning and professional development
- Able to work with clients of diverse cultural and social backgrounds is necessary
- Computer literacy is required
- Bilingualism (French/English) and/or proficiency in a second language would be an asset
About CAMH
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues.
As a teaching hospital, CAMH provides education, training, internships and residencies for students. People training to work in the health care field, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, occupational therapists, social workers and laboratory technologists, come to CAMH for practical experience.
We believe that Mental Health is Health, and through our work we are building a movement for social change: raising awareness, challenging prejudice, and advocating for public policies that support mental health.
Please note that our social media channels are not monitored 24/7. If you are experiencing thoughts of suicide, you are deserving of help - visit www.camh.ca/gethelp for more information. If you feel safe in the moment, follow up with your family physician or care team. If you require immediate, in-person emergency care, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency department.