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

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) / Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), Ashworth 2 – Forensic Psychiatric Hospital BC

Registered Nurse (RN)/ Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN)

BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services

Coquitlam, BC

This Temporary, Part-Time FTE; Until February 4, 2027) opportunity is with the
Ashworth 2 (A2) – Specialized assessment and psychiatric intensive care program.

Want to learn more about being an RPN at PHSA? Join the on October 15 at 3 PST, hosted by BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services and BC Children’s Hospital. At this info session, you’ll have the opportunity to connect directly with recruitment advisors and a hiring leader. !

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 care recipients.

Consult with nurses, interdisciplinary team members, and other health care professionals, accesses other available resources in relation to overall care planning issues. Meets with health care team to discuss and review care plans. Maintains liaison between nurses, physicians, family, and community resources for individual patients to ensure continuity of care.

What you bring

Qualifications

Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (BCCNM).

One (1) year of recent experience working in a forensic or acute psychiatric hospital setting, or an equivalent combination of…


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Registered Nurse; RN​/Registered Psychiatric Nurse; RPN), Ashworth – Forensic Psychiatric Hospital BC

Registered Nurse; RN/Registered Psychiatric Nurse; RPN), Ashworth – Forensic Psychiatric Hospital BC