Clinical Security Liaison Nurse, Registered Nurse (RN) / Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), Forensic Psychiatric Hospital - Coquitlam, BC

Clinical Security Liaison Nurse - Registered Nurse (RN) / Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) - Maximum and Multi-Level Security Units BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services

Coquitlam, BC

This Regular Full-Time opportunity is with the Access, Transition, and Clinical Risk Management team.

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

• Facilitate staff learning by acting as a clinical resource and demonstrates expertise and leadership in nursing and clinical practice by methods such as demonstrating patient de-escalation, PVPC, ATR (Code White) and seclusion entry procedures, answering questions related to clinical practice issues, problem solving, troubleshooting concerns and leading clinical and security interventions.
• Work as an integral member of the interdisciplinary clinical team and provides patient clinical security and risk information and management advice as it relates to the development of risk assessments and treatment plans. Collaborate and assists clinical staff in the development of health outcomes that support patient recovery and therapeutic care. Provide information in the development of behavioural / treatment patient care plans and risk management plans for patients. Promote the growth and development of an innovative and progressive attitude with a focus on the recovery of the patient while recognizing the need for therapeutic caution.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to assist, recommend and guide safe seclusion care of patients and staff on FPH units, which includes following the policy and procedure. Collaborate with teams on, and supports colleagues with, patient transition out of seclusion. When requested plans and authorizes patient entry / exit of seclusion.
• Support members of the interdisciplinary team with clinical decision making regarding patient de-escalation, PVPC, ATR (Code White) and seclusion entry decisions and procedures. Evaluates performance of ATR team post incident by assisting with post incident debriefing with patient and clinical team and providing feedback to ensure care is provided according to program standards and clinical practice guidelines. Leads and coordinates mock PVPC ATR code white drills by guiding staff through refresher scenarios, observing staff performing activities and providing feedback to ensure scenario is completed according to established standards and clinical practice guidelines.
• Provide critical feedback to leadership team about staff PVPC and ATR competencies, including skill development improvements post incident and post incident investigations. Provide direct follow up with staff to improve patient outcomes.

What you bring

Qualifications

Core Competencies

Skills & Knowledge

What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

Hours of Work : Rotating; 0700-1500 / 1500-2300

Requisition # 189409E

What we do

(BCMHSUS) cares for people with complex mental health and substance use challenges.

BCMHSUS program is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include : Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Cultivate partnerships – Serve with purpose.

PHSA and BCMHSUS are committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We recognize that our ability to provide the best care for our diverse patient populations relies on a rich diversity of skills, knowledge, background and experience, and value a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment.

Learn more about PHSA and our programs :

PHSA is committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and / or persistently excluded groups identified under the Human Rights Code.

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and / or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at .

Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan : A First Nations Case Study.

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