Registered Practical Nurse (TFT 1.0 FTE)
Position Information
| Posting Number: | ROM24-295E |
| Title: | Registered Practical Nurse (TFT 1.0 FTE) |
| Position Status: | Temporary Full-time | Contract End Date: | 05/19/2025 |
| FTE: | 1.0 |
| Job Schedule: | Days/Evenings/Weekends |
| Unit: | Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Team for Persons Dually Diagnosed |
| Department: | Community Mental Health |
| Union: | CUPE Local 942 |
| Site: | Community Mental Health - Carlingwood & Satellite Offices |
| Number of Vacancies: | 1 |
About The Royal
As one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, The Royal has a clear purpose: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. This is at the core of everything we do and it is driven by the passion, focus and dedication of our employees. Every day, the work that we do transforms the lives of people with mental illness through specialized mental healthcare, advocacy, research and education.
Duties:
- Provides professional nursing/mental health services to persons with a serious mental illness and intellectual disability living in the community
- Develops and implements, in conjunction with treatment team members, creative treatment plans responsive to client needs
- Identifies and coordinates provision of service and resources for clients, in collaboration with affiliate and community partners, advocating on client’s behalf to safeguard and ensure their entitlements and rights
- Conducts regular home visits to clients, requiring extensive driving in the catchment area
- Provides assessment and crisis intervention services
- Participates in the development and delivery of educational and informational programs for clients, families, service providers, employees and the public
- Provide necessary activities of daily living support within the framework of the FACT DD model based on client need
- Safe preparation and administration of medication as per the Royal policy and procedure
- Demonstrated ability to recognize and intervene around emergent health problems
- Work in a manner that is in compliance with staff and patient/client safety practices, policies and procedures of The Royal.
- Ensure a work environment that is conducive to The Royal’s Anti-Racism, Discrimination and Harassment-Free Workplace policy.
Qualifications:
- Graduate of recognized Diploma Program in Practical Nursing
- Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- Knowledge of CNO Standards regarding RPN scope of practice.
- Understanding of MHA and relevant legislation required.
- Experience working with persons with Dual Diagnosis (Intellectual Disability and Psychiatric Illness) required.
- Community Mental Health experience preferred.
- Ability to apply critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, conflict resolution and prioritization skills to nursing duties required
- Knowledge of major mental illness from a bio-psychosocial perspective and experience in applying the psychosocial principles of rehabilitation and case management required
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and as a member of a professional inter-disciplinary team.
- Maintain work load measurement and data collection as required and input into the workload measurement system on a regular basis.
- WHMIS update in preceding 12 months.
- CPR Certification within the last 12 months.
- Completion of Prevention of Violence in the Workplace training (C.P.I.) is preferred.
- Basic computer skills required.
- Access to a reliable vehicle for day to day operations of the team
- Valid G License
- Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- English level A- is mandatory in oral expression, oral comprehension, reading comprehension and written expression. Bilingual (French/English) is considered an asset.
| Salary Range: | $35.36 to $37.05 per hour |
Additional Information
- All applicants must provide a recent resume that clearly indicate that they meet the required qualifications.
- Please apply by clicking on the Apply button below.
- The Royal sincerely thanks all applicants for their interest in a career with us; however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
- All new hires will be required to obtain a clear and valid Criminal Record or Vulnerable Sector Records Check as a pre-condition of employment.
- The Royal is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, accommodations due to a disability are available throughout the recruitment process.