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

Job summary

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides recovery-oriented care and ensures effective linkage between hospital acute 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 acute 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 hold a current practicing registration as an RN or RPN with the BCCNM and possess at least two years of recent experience in child and adolescent psychiatric or crisis settings. A valid Class 5 BC Driver’s License and access to a personal vehicle are also required.

What you’ll do

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides recovery-oriented care and ensures effective linkage between hospital acute 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 hold a current practicing registration as an RN or RPN with the BCCNM and possess at least two years of recent experience in child and adolescent psychiatric or crisis settings. A valid Class 5 BC Driver’s License and access to a personal vehicle are also 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
• Patient advocacy
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Clinical documentation
• Psychopharmacology
• Group facilitation
• Discharge planning
• Nursing care
• Crisis counselling
• Evidence-based practice

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Social Services

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