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Registered Nurse - Mental Health

Ontario, Canada

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