Location: 1553 Dundas St., Unit F.

St. Joseph’s Health Care is willing to consider applicants who are eligible for Community Commitment Program for Nurses (CCPN). This program provides $25,000 in grant funding to eligible RPNs/RNs/ Nurse Practitioners in exchange for a two-year full-time commitment. To learn more about the Community Commitment Program for Nurses (CCPN), please visit www.healthforceontario.ca/en/Home/All_Programs/Community_Commitment_Program_for_Nurses.

Using the principles of client-centered and recovery-oriented care, the successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team and provide comprehensive community based assessment, rehabilitation, and treatment to clients with serious mental illness.

Essential Qualifications

• Valid registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Valid CPR certificate
• Knowledge of a Safety Culture in a Health Care Setting in compliance with the OHSA
• In depth knowledge of major mental illness from a biopsychosocial perspective
• Knowledge, skills, and recent experience providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to individuals with serious mental illness
• Demonstrated ability to apply and document the nursing process
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in applying the principles of psychosocial rehabilitation and case management
• Knowledge of psychotropic medications, symptom management, and community resources
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act and other relevant legislation
• Demonstrated knowledge of the ACT model of care and the Ontario ACT Standards
• Demonstrated knowledge of mental status exam and risk assessment
• Demonstrated knowledge of the theory and skills needed to provide services using a recovery oriented approach to mental health care
• Demonstrated ability to establish positive interpersonal relationships and ability to work as an effective team member
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational, critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Proven flexibility and a high level of initiative
• Experience in crisis intervention and the development of teaching materials and the teaching of clients, family, and caregivers
• Extensive Travel within the catchment area required

• Proficiency in French would be an asset
• BScN
• Certified in, or in process of completing courses toward the Canadian Psychiatry and Mental Health Certification

• St Joseph's Health Care London through its affiliation with Western University and Fanshawe College is a leading research and teaching hospital. As an employee of St Joseph's, you will be expected to engage in role related teaching and research activities in addition to any of your clinical duties

• Provide vaccination records or proof of immunity against measles, mumps rubella, varicella (chicken pox), Hepatitis B, COVID-19 and influenza.
• Provide documentation of the Tuberculosis skin testing