Registered Nurse - Psychiatry Consultation Liaison

Job Description

Registered Nurse
- Psychiatry Consultation Liaison

Registered Nurse
- Psychiatry Consultation Liaison

Mental Health Program

8515

Permanent Full-Time (x1)

CPS
05 ($57.07 to $69.31)

Mississauga Hospital

Primarily Monday to Friday with flexibility required; 8:30am to 4:30pm

September 17, 2026

Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals, serving the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, the Reactivation care Centre (Church Site) and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030 , we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.

As part of the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service, the Registered Nurse will work at the interface of medicine and psychiatry and provide psychiatric consultation for patients admitted to medical/surgical units across the hospital. The team provides service and expert psychiatric consultation for individuals who develop signs and symptoms of psychiatric distress while they are in hospital for a medical or surgical reason, and help and support family members of these individuals.

In addition, to supporting the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service, the Registered Nurse will also provide backup coverage for Electroconvulsive Therapy. Coverage includes assisting in the ECT procedure as directed; clinically assessing pre and post ECT patients; documents the ECT treatment and outcomes; coordinates transfer of care back to the inpatient unit for monitoring as required and other duties as required.

• Providing in-depth consultation to medical/surgical units
• Completes in-depth psychiatric nursing assessment of patients Completes in-depth case/ chart reviews
• Demonstrates nursing expertise and providing clinical leadership in evidence-based practices through direct care activities
• Provides health teaching to patients, family members and frontline staff concerning medication, illness, symptom management, and recovery using a biopsychosocial framework.
• Recommends the implementation of interventions based on assessment, patient and family input and in conjunction with the treatment team using a patient and family centered approach to care.
• Ensures coordinated delivery of care through ongoing communication with all members of the treatment team, community partners and discharge planning (when required)
• Documents all assessment findings, treatment, transfer and discharge plans as required
• Assists with application of behavior management strategies under the guidance of the psychiatrist on the Consultation Liaison team.
• Uses a variety of interventions to manage responsive behaviors of patients such as, confusion, delirium, dementia, aggression, agitation etc.
• Administers a variety of assessment scales in collaboration with the treatment team to record patient symptoms and/or behavior. For example, BPRS, CIWA, MoCA, MMSE, AIMS, Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia etc. dependent on area of clinical involvement.
• Participate in program quality initiatives, and program evaluation as necessary
• Triage and prioritization of patient orders
• Engaged in Enhanced critical thinking and problem-solving
• Additional duties as required

• Graduate of a recognized college or school of nursing
• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses…