Registered Nurse; Acute Behavioural Support – East Behavioural Supports Ontario

Registered Nurse (Acute Behavioural Support – Central East Behavioural Supports Ontario)

• Job Number: J
• Job Type: Permanent Part Time
• Union: ONA
• City, Province, Country:
  Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
• Department:
  Continuing Care Program (CCP)
• Open Positions: 1
• Date Posted:
  July 23, 2026
• Closing Date:
  July 29, 2026
• Salary: $41.150 - $58.980/Hour

Ross Memorial Hospital (RMH) is an active, acute-care community hospital located in the heart of the City of Kawartha Lakes. Among our acute and continuing care services, our team cares for 45,000 patients per year in the 24/7/365 emergency department, provides orthopedics and ophthalmology, operates a dialysis unit, and is renowned for its mental health programs and restorative seniors care. The Ross family takes pride in providing compassionate, quality patient care.

Responsible to the Manager of the Continuing Care Program, the Central East (CE) Behavioural Supports Ontario (BSO) Acute Care Registered Nurse (RN) will provide support and expertise to patients and their care partners throughout the organization, who are experiencing responsive behaviours related to dementia, mental health, addictions or neurodegenerative conditions. This role requires the BSO Acute Care RN to liaise with the in-patient teams at Ross Memorial Hospital.

As well as Geriatric Assessment and Intervention Network (GAIN) teams, Geriatric Emergency Management (GEM) nurse, family, Home and Community Care (HCC) and other practitioners involved in the Circle of Care. The goal of this role is to facilitate collaborative cross-sectoral relationships, help build capacity of teams to support patients living with responsive behaviours, and help support transitions in care. The BSO Acute Care RN will utilize the depth and breadth of knowledge and leadership competency in hospital by enabling others to develop expertise and confidence in their abilities.

In collaboration with the care team, the BSO Acute Care RN supports the coordination of care for complex patients.

As a Specialized Geriatrics Services (SGS) partner, the BSO Acute Care RN plays a central role within in-patient teams providing consultation and supporting holistic behavioural health care. Participates in a collaborative model of behavioural health care centered on the patient and care partners by providing education, behavioural modelling, care coaching and planning with an inter-professional team in the acute setting. Responsible for making best practice clinical decisions and exercising judgement to ensure the best possible care pathway is provided within available resources.

Possess remarkable collaboration skills, to facilitate a complex case resolution process among providers, ensuring patients have the ability to access the required services. Supporting ongoing quality improvement in the healthcare system, examine opportunities, identify and track system barriers to discharge and communicate themes to appropriate stakeholders.

The BSO Acute Care RN will optimize internal resources, provide strategies to manage responsive behaviours, facilitate complex case discussions among key partners such as Alzheimer Society, HCC and Long-Term Care. Provide support with safe transitions home by helping the in-patient team to articulate the patient's story as part of a contribution to the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA). Be able to collect pertinent patient information, perform a specialized assessment (reflective of the BSO and lnterprofessional Geriatric Assessment competency frameworks), and prioritize the needs of patients requiring behavioural supports, in a time sensitive manner.

The BSO Acute Care RN will be able to establish boundaries of physiological and psychological stability as well as predict the potential trajectory of the patient's condition, having proficient accuracy in problem identification which is a crucial component of clinical decision making. Draw from an extensive internal base of knowledge and experience to identify salient cues and act based on the patient presentation, while having superior advocacy, interpersonal, interprofessional and written and verbal communication skills.

The BSO RN…