Department: Community Mental Health & Addictions
QUALIFICATIONS
Certification/Experience/Knowledge:
- Current Certificate of Registration ~ College of Nurses of Ontario required
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) for Health Care Providers (HCP) required (recent within the last twelve months)
- Current Gentle Persuasive Approach (GPA) Certificate
- Experience in Community Mental Health and Addictions
- Medical/clinical experience in an active care setting or substance use withdrawal setting
- Knowledge of Mental Health conditions, psychotropic medication, related side effects, symptom management and health teaching
- Sound knowledge of substance misuse and addictions treatment
- Knowledge and experience in implementing a Recovery Based Philosophy and knowledge of the Patient and Family Partnered Care Practices
- Knowledge of Meditech modules and basic computer knowledge
- Previous experience providing individual goal directed counselling and group health teaching
Skills/Abilities:
- Applied approached in health promotion, self-management, harm reduction , disease management and monitoring practices
- Ability to support clients with a variety of mental health, addictions, and physical health conditions
- Conduct mental and physical status assessments and assess clients’ physiological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual needs to determine priority of care requirements based on client needs, availability of resources and best practices
- Ability to assume responsibility for patient care in a total patient care climate
- Skilled in client engagement, readiness development and group work
- Assess high risk situations and provide effective crisis management and de escalation
- Demonstrate effective decision making ability to problem solve and deal effectively with conflict situations
- Ability to work collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team, able to build and inspire a positive team culture that exemplifies our CARE values
- Involved in continuing education and demonstrate commitment to quality improvement
- Demonstrated listening and information seeking skills that promotes communication and lead to a cooperative approach to problem solving within a multidisciplinary setting
- Ability to meet the physical demands required to provide nursing care
- Good attendance and work record
- Must support and contribute to a culture of safety and prevention of adverse health events in this organization
- Committed to ensuring your safety, the safety of fellow workers, patients, volunteers, and visitors
- Bilingualism (Advanced level English/French) is required. All unilingual candidates are encouraged to apply and may be considered if the identified French requirement has been met or there are no successful bilingual candidates. A formal French test will be conducted to evaluate the proficiency level.
Pay rate, benefits and other terms and conditions are as per the CUPE 139 Collective Agreement
North Bay Regional Health Centre is committed to providing accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require an accommodation for disability during any stage of the recruitment process, please indicate this in your application.
All new hires are required to complete a Criminal Record Check (CRC) or a Vulnerable Sector Check (VSC), as applicable to the position. A satisfactory result, in accordance with organizational requirements, is a condition of employment.
NORTH BAY REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
