(CASUAL) REGISTERED NURSE 2 - DUAL DIAGNOSIS SERVICE (DDS)

Overview

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences is seeking a Registered Nurse’s (RN’s). As an RN, you will provide assessment and therapeutic interventions in a recovery-focused model of care. You will provide mental health and general nursing care utilizing the nursing process to patients with severe and persistent mental illness. You will organize and collaborate in the planning and implementation of nursing best practices with Registered Nurses and an interdisciplinary team. The assignment is to work in our Dual Diagnosis Services (DDS) Program. This unit provides inpatient and comprehensive outpatient and outreach services to its patient population. DDS provides services to adults who are developmentally handicapped with a serious mental illness and who present with significant behavioural challenges. By combining expertise in the assessment and treatment of behavioural handicaps, the unit also provides specialized psychiatric treatment and behavioural programming. Treatment plans include life skills and recreation; supportive counseling and group programming, family support, education and consultation. The multidisciplinary team helps the patients address their difficulties through skills assessment and instruction, goal-oriented planning, education and psychiatric stabilization.

Please Note : Although the posted vacancy is to work within DDS, all Registered Nurses must have the ability to work in any area of the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences as patients’ needs dictate.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and therapeutic interventions in a recovery-focused model of care for patients with severe and persistent mental illness.
• Provide mental health and general nursing care using the nursing process.
• Organize and collaborate in planning and implementing nursing best practices with Registered Nurses and an interdisciplinary team.
• Work within the Dual Diagnosis Services (DDS) Program, including inpatient, comprehensive outpatient, and outreach services; participate in life skills and recreation; supportive counseling and group programming; family support, education and consultation; contribute to treatment planning and psychiatric stabilization.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to address patient difficulties through skills assessment, instruction, goal-oriented planning, education and documentation.

Qualifications

Job Posting Closing : February 18th, 2026. Current Vacancies : 1.

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