Crisis Response Nurse Specialist

1 week ago


Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver Coastal Health Full time
Job Summary

Vancouver Coastal Health is seeking a skilled Crisis Response Nurse to join our team in North Vancouver, BC. As a Crisis Response Nurse, you will play a critical role in providing mental health and addictions care to clients within our designated program.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide mental health and addictions care to clients within the designated program.
  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide assessments, screening, triage, treatment, and case management for individuals experiencing urgent and emergent mental health and substance abuse problems.
  • Work in partnership with clients, families, and relevant clinical care partners to ensure service provision is integrated across the continuum of care.
  • Provide emergency mobile crisis response as required, facilitating immediate hospital or detox facility admission if deemed necessary.
  • Provide crisis intervention counseling, treatment planning, intensive case management, and referral coordination.
  • Initiate and participate in case conferences and case management meetings.
  • Prepare and maintain client records.
  • Provide consultative and direct services/care to clients, families, community health professionals/agencies, law enforcement, and/or schools, physicians, and Emergency Room staff.
  • Participate in team meetings, continuing education, conferences, and/or corporate initiatives and engage in ongoing team planning, development, evaluation, and quality improvement activities.
Qualifications
  • Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
  • Three (3) years' recent related experience providing treatment services to individuals within the designated client population with mental health and substance use issues or an equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
  • Valid BC Driver's License. Local area travel will require the use of a personal vehicle.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Broad knowledge of nursing theory and practice within a client/family-centered model of care.
  • Broad knowledge of BCCNM standards for nursing/psychiatric nursing practice.
  • Broad knowledge of mental illness and treatment applicable to the designated client population.
  • Broad knowledge of substance abuse and addictions treatment.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of hospital and community-based resources and the ability to act as a liaison between services.
  • Broad knowledge of psychotherapeutic and counseling skills.
  • Broad knowledge of family systems theory.
  • Broad knowledge of community mental health services, resources, and referral procedures.
  • Knowledge of crisis intervention theory, Early Psychosis Intervention, and Attachment Theory.
  • Basic knowledge of legislation and government policies and procedures that relate to clients.
  • Demonstrated ability to conduct mental health status exams and risk assessments, and provide treatment planning and crisis intervention for designated client population.
  • Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge of theory and practice to a case management process.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish rapport with multi-barrier client population.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with clients and their families, colleagues, physician, and other healthcare staff, both one-on-one and in groups.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish workload priorities and to adjust schedule to deal with unexpected situations.
  • Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Demonstrated ability to problem-solve.
  • Demonstrated ability to deal effectively with conflict situations.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate related electronic equipment.
  • Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
  • Basic computer literacy to operate a computerized client care information system and word processing, spreadsheet, Internet, and e-mail software.

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