Registered Nurse, Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Team

Position Profile

Humber River Health. Lighting New Ways In Healthcare.

Since opening our doors in 2015 as North America’s first fully digital hospital, we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Serving a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto, Equity Inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our Team.

At Humber River Health, we use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care. We make technology work for staff and physicians; giving them more time to spend with patients, to eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce the chance of errors. Humber River Health is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and committed to becoming a community academic hospital.

Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection frame our Research Strategy.

At Humber River Health, we’re not hoping for a renaissance, we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way, as we continue our journey towards high reliability care!

Join our professional team of Registered Nurses as we work together to deliver compassionate care that is responsive to the healthcare needs of our community.

Humber River Health is committed to revolutionizing patient care for our diverse community. We’re looking for exceptional individuals to join our great team: people who share our passion to deliver compassionate, professional, respectful care. The Hospital is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University.

Right now we’re looking for a Registered Nurse to work on our Mental Health Geriatric Outreach Team.

Are you a compassionate RN who is focused on delivering high-quality, safe-care?

Employee Status:
Casual Reporting Relationship: Manager of Mental Health

Hourly Rate Range: $41.15-$58.98
Schedule Requirements: Day shift Monday to Friday, some evenings may be required
Location: Wilson Site - Must be willing to work in all assigned Long Term Care Home
Employee Group: ONA

Position Responsibilities:

• Completes psychiatric nursing assessment of residents
• Provides health teaching to residents and family members and frontline long-term care home staff concerning medication, illness, symptom management, and recovery using a biopsychosocial framework.
• Establishes therapeutic alliances with the residents and their families.
• Recommends the implementation of interventions based on assessment, resident and family input and in conjunction with the treatment team using a resident and family centered approach to care.
• Ensures coordinated delivery of care through ongoing communication with all members of the treatment team including a variety of internal as well as community providers.
• Documents all assessment findings, treatment, transfer and discharge plans as required
• Interacts with all members of the interdisciplinary team individually as well as in team meetings to report on assessment findings and progress updates.
• Assists with application of behavior management strategies under the guidance of the psychiatrist on the Geriatric Mental Health Outreach Team.
• Uses a variety of interventions to manage responsive behaviors of residents 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.
• Other related duties as required.

Qualifications:

• Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• Current BCLS/CPR certification required.
• BScN preferred.
• Certification in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing required, or willingness to obtain within one year of hire.
• 2 years of recent mental health/addictions experience is required.
• Demonstrated ability to provide individual/group health teaching for residents and staff.
• Excellent assessment skills, including…