Registered Nurse; RN/Registered Psychiatric Nurse; RPN),Float Pool,Forensic Psychiatric Hospital BC Job Coquitlam area,BC Canada

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) / Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), Float Pool, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital BC

Registered Nurse (RN) / Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), Minimum and Medium Security Units

BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services

Coquitlam, BC

This position may qualify for a one-time recruitment incentive up to $15,000, $20,000 or $30,000 (subject to funding availability). To learn more about this incentive and if you qualify, please contact Kelsey Fogliato, Talent Acquisition Advisor at

Two (2) Regular Full-Time opportunities with the Float Pool Team.

This is a float position that will be required to work across all units within the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, including maximum/medium/minimum and multi level units, based on operational needs and as directed by the hiring manager/on-call manager/designate.

For further information about the Float Pool units, please review the information provided below:

Ashworth 1 (A1) - Male remand unit

Ashworth 2 (A2) - Specialized assessment and psychiatric intensive care program

Ashworth 3 (A3) - Neuropsychiatry program

Ashworth 4 (A4) - Severe psychosis/ intensive management program

Dogwood East (DWE) - Women's program

Dogwood West (DWW) - Geriatric/ medically frail program

Elm North (Elm N) - Intensive rehabilitation program

Elm South (Elm S) - Intensive rehabilitation program

Hawthorne House (Hawthorne) - Pre-discharge program

You are a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse who works with compassion and care while practicing trauma-informed care. You’re seeking a meaningful role that provides challenge, variety, and the opportunity to make an impact on others’ lives. As someone who seeking to better your own practice through others, you appreciate your interdisciplinary team members and enjoy collaborating on complex care issues, using trauma informed practice, harm reduction, and Indigenous Cultural Safety.

What is the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital?

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital (FPH) is a 190-bed secure facility located in Coquitlam, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded core territory of the kwikwəƛ̓əm First Nation (Kwikwetlem). We treat people who have been found not criminally responsible for a crime or unfit to stand trial due to a mental health disorder. We deliver services to patients using the “Clinical Program Model,” which aims to deliver high-quality care to meet the specific needs of patients and is currently the best practice in health care.

What you’ll do

RNs / RPNs are key members of the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital (FPH) team who are working to transform services for this client population by implement leading best practices in forensic mental health. Part of the BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services program, the FPH is a world leader in providing psychiatric care through its unique, multi-site health organization. Nurses are part of the interdisciplinary team of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses and other health care professionals, who together, work in close partnership to provide specialized hospital and community-based services for adults with mental illness who are in conflict with the law.

Usual duties include:

Provide direct care in accordance with the care plan by methods such as performing protocols and interventions, implementing behaviour management strategies and meeting care recipient needs; applying approved techniques, procedures and treatments; administering prescribed medication.

Recognize and identify signs and symptoms, and detect changes in patients’ conditions; reports and records as indicated.

Collect and document patient health care information. Maintain complete and accurate records of nursing observation, interventions, evaluation of nursing care, and telephone communications.

Plan direct care and contributes to the physical and psychological well-being of the patients by methods such as assessing clinical requirements, status and condition of care recipients; developing care plans based on identified needs, participating in various interdisciplinary assessment and screening processes, and including patient and family, when appropriate, in planning nursing care; and implementing care plans, evaluating outcomes and revising plans to address gaps and to respond to the needs of…


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Registered Nurse; RN​/Registered Psychiatric Nurse; RPN), Float Pool, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital BC

Registered Nurse; RN/Registered Psychiatric Nurse; RPN), Float Pool, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital BC