Registered Nurse (RN/RPN) | Mental Health and Substance Use
About the Job :
The Registered Nurse / Registered Psychiatric Nurse :
- Functions as a member of the larger Hospitals & Communities Integrated Services (HCIS) or Tertiary Mental Health Services multi-disciplinary care team
- Ensures that persons with serious severe and persistent mental health problems, and / or problematic substance use and / or development disability issues who may or may not be in crisis have access to timely, responsive, evidence based treatment and clinical supports across the continuum of available services
- Provides assessment, treatment, case management, community support, and as required, urgent response to clients who may also have serious functional impairment in the domains of physical health and personal, family, financial, occupational, and social life
- Functions as a primary clinician utilizing a variety of specialized treatment modalities / therapies for individuals, groups of clients and / or their families
- Provides consultation or assessment service to the Emergency Department or the Acute / Inpatient Mental Health service at the request of the Emergency Room physician, the general practitioner or the Emergency triage nurse
This is a permanent full-time opportunity.
shifts of work are rotating with times from 11 : 00 to 23 : 00.
About this location / unit :
The city of Penticton is located in BC’s scenic south central region in the Okanagan Valley. With its mild climate, easy accessibility, urban amenities and world-class recreational opportunities, it offers an attractive lifestyle.
Boating, windsurfing, hiking and skiing are among the numerous outdoor leisure pursuits enjoyed here.
Penticton Regional Hospital (PRH) acts as a referral centre to three community hospitals and one diagnostic centre in the South Okanagan and includes a regional population of 85,000.
It has an operating capacity of 158 acute beds and 102 extended care beds. A full range of services are provided with the exception of open heart surgery, neuro surgery, and recent spinal cord injury care.
This is a great place to experience a variety of medical and surgical nursing units and build and expand your nursing skills.
Come live, work and play where others only vacation. Make a difference. Love your work.