Nurse Jobs in Scarborough, ON

Clinical Nurse

LOCATION : Toronto & Richmond Hill

POSITION TYPE : Full-time Regular (37.5 hours per week)

Interested in working with an amazing team that really cares? Then you should join Lumenus! At Lumenus we illuminate a seamless pathway to optimal wellbeing for our clients. As one of the largest mental health agencies in Ontario, we offer a broad range of high-quality mental health, developmental and community services for infants, children, youth, individuals, and families across Toronto. We are a passionate, dynamic and growing agency. We offer a competitive salary, employer paid benefits, ongoing training, and career development opportunities!

Lumenus Community Services is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We value a recruitment and selection process that is inclusive and barrier-free and we encourage applications from all individuals including, but not limited to, all cultures, religions, racialized communities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions.

Lumenus Community Services is currently hiring a permanent full-time registered Nurse to work within our Residential programs serving youth and adults with dual diagnoses.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Participate in the assessment and intakes of clients referred for the Live-in Treatment program;
• Ensure that the organization's policies and procedures for medication administration are adhered to;
• Ongoing monitoring of medications and medication related processes;
• Evaluate clients for medication side effects, intolerance, possible drug incompatibility, PRN needs, etc., and other drug-related issues on an ongoing basis;
• Provide staff development, and / or consultation regarding health issues of clients, and psychiatric illness symptomatology;
• Liaise with pharmacy , hospitals and other community medical practitioners as required;
• Train staff in medication administration;
• Work in collaboration with live-in managers and the staff teams;
• Participate in clinical meetings as appropriate;
• Support infection prevention and control practices as needed.

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ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS :

We ask applicants to make any accommodation requests for the interview or selection process known in advance by contacting Human Resources. Human Resources will work together with the hiring committee to arrange reasonable and appropriate accommodation for the selection process which will enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner.