Registered Psychiatric Nurse - Grande Prairie, Canada - Alberta Health Services

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Your Opportunity:

Enhancing community care options for Albertans continues to be a key priority for AHS. Our goal is to provide high-quality diverse community, home, and individual Addiction and Mental Health services and to support the long-term mental health and wellness of Assertive Outreach clients and their families. To support this goal, the North Zone Addictions and Mental Health department has an exciting opportunity for a Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) with the NZ Assertive Outreach Team. Addiction & Mental Health co-ordinates, plans, delivers and evaluates a provincewide network of AHS programs and contracted services. We work with a common purpose: to promote understanding and compassion, to encourage healthy behaviour, and attitudes, and to help all Albertans achieve well-being throughout their lives. The base location is negotiable within Fox Creek, Valleyview, Beaverlodge and surrounding areas located within Treaty 8 on traditional lands of the First Nation peoples of the Cree and Dene. You can enjoy the beauty of the area by walking on trails, snowshoeing, and skiing, and spending quality time with family and friends in the relaxed atmosphere. As an RPN, you will be a member of an interdisciplinary team and provide a range of nursing support to AOS clients through a recovery-oriented framework. Services you offer may include psychosocial assessment, treatment planning, physical health assessment, medication management and administration, collaborating with psychiatrists, and other nursing duties as required. This position also involves consultation and collaboration with interprofessional team members and outside agencies involved in the client's recovery plan. For questions relating to the role please contact: J

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As a Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), you will provide leadership through a wide variety of nursing services to patients (clients, residents) for the purpose of promoting, maintaining or restoring health, mental health and preventing mental illness, injury and disability. You will teach, counsel and advocate on behalf of patients and take necessary steps to ensure their safety and well-being. You will provide safe, quality patient and family centered care, while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS.

Completion of an accredited Psychiatric nursing education program. Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of Alberta (CRPNA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP). PLEASE NOTE: This posting is scheduled to close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date but may be filled earlier if a Regular Employee who holds a position within the unit, program, or office expresses their interest in this vacancy by 23:59 MT on the 5th calendar day following the posting date, under LOU #25. In the event that no Regular Employee from this workplace expresses their interest by the deadline, the vacancy shall be filled under the provisions of Article 14: Promotions, Transfers and Vacancies. Please be advised this posting may be used to fill multiple identical vacancies arising as a result of the administration of the Trial of Modified Posting Provisions.

In addition to a competitive rate of pay, AHS currently has a Remote Retention Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $3,000. This allowance is non-pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay.

Use of Microsoft tools. Experience in health care or settings with transferable experiences is preferred, (Inpatient Psychiatry, Acute care, Psychiatric Emergency). Knowledge and experience working with diverse and marginalized populations using an inclusive lens of equity & diversity. Knowledge and application of trauma informed care, harm reduction and Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Understanding of the impact of severe mental illness and stigma.