Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RN/RPN), Hospital Community Liaison, CYYA - Fraser East

Job summary

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides recovery-oriented care and ensures effective linkage between hospital inpatient units and community mental health services. They perform crisis counselling, suicide prevention, and short-term follow-up to support children and adolescents while reducing hospital bed utilization.

Job details

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides recovery-oriented care and ensures effective linkage between hospital inpatient units and community mental health services. They perform crisis counselling, suicide prevention, and short-term follow-up to support children and adolescents while reducing hospital bed utilization. Candidates must have graduation from an approved School of Nursing and current practicing registration with the BCCNM. A minimum of two years of recent, related experience in a child and adolescent psychiatric setting or crisis stabilization function is required.

What you’ll do

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides recovery-oriented care and ensures effective linkage between hospital inpatient units and community mental health services. They perform crisis counselling, suicide prevention, and short-term follow-up to support children and adolescents while reducing hospital bed utilization.

Requirements

Candidates must have graduation from an approved School of Nursing and current practicing registration with the BCCNM. A minimum of two years of recent, related experience in a child and adolescent psychiatric setting or crisis stabilization function is required.

Listed skills

• crisis intervention · Preferred
• Group Facilitation · Preferred
• interdisciplinary collaboration · Preferred
• case management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Crisis intervention
• Mental health assessment
• Substance use treatment
• Suicide prevention
• Case management
• Psychiatric nursing
• Patient advocacy
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Clinical documentation
• Psychopharmacology
• Group facilitation
• Crisis counselling
• Transition support
• Health education
• Clinical assessment

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Social Services

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