Registered Nurse
- Employer
- Kinark Child and Family Services
- Location
- Oakville
- Starts
- Closes
- Job Category
- Healthcare Services and Wellness
- Job Type
- Full-time
Kinark Child and Family Services is a leading child and youth service organization in Ontario on a mission to become an employer of choice. We provide a wide range of evidence-based services that include individual, family and group counselling for children and youth with complex needs and their families. Kinark’s three program streams include: Community-Based Child and Youth Mental Health, Autism and Forensic Mental Health.
Are you interested in working for a leading organization helping children and youth with complex needs?
Come join our team!
What we offer:
- Competitive salary, comprehensive health and dental benefits, and other employment perks
- Flexible work arrangement supporting employee work life balance
- Employer Matching Defined Contribution Pension Plan up to 6%
- Employee Wellness Program
- Extensive Educational and Training Opportunities and Supports
- Supportive work environment with regular Supervision and Feedback
- Renowned Accredited Clinical Programs
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We currently have an opportunity for:
Position Title : Registered Nurse
Program Lists : Kinark Child & Family Services -> Syl Apps Youth Centre
Location : Oakville, ON L6H 1M3 CA (Primary)
Regular Full-Time
Start Date November 1, 2021
Total # of hours per week 40
Salary/Hr: 38.89 40.84 42.87
# Of Positions: 2
Close Date: October 31, 2021
Summary of Roles and Responsibilities
As the Program RN you will facilitate professional nursing practices that support the delivery of client-centered care. You will use your knowledge and skills in child/youth development; emotional and psychological care and medical/medication management to assist clients within the community and those youth residing in the residential programs. You will be working within an interdisciplinary team, providing treatment; collaborating on care plans with other team members and sharing expertise to optimize the care for clients and families.
Your responsibilities include:
- Comprehensive physical, emotional and developmental assessments
- Medication management including practices accomplished through medical directives
- Individual, family and group counseling as appropriate
- Engage in cognitive behavioural and other therapies as required and within scope
- Provide liaison and consultation within the program team and with outside physicians, laboratories and pharmacies
- Other responsibilities include (but not limited to):
- Overseeing the systematic collection of laboratory, physical and developmental checks
- Organizing and participating in psychiatry consultations; including follow-up and management of psychiatric plan of care
- Support youth within residential care to maintain a healthy lifestyle, including coping with possible medication side effects (e.g.: undesired weight gain)
- Provide education and guidance to children, youth and families around health and wellness concerns; normal growth and development issues and mental health presentation
- Provide education and support to child youth workers and staff as needed
Qualification and Skills
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing or equivalent
- Member in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Proof of Personal Professional Liability Insurance
- Recent experience and expertise in mental health/psychiatry
- Knowledge of normal child/youth growth and development
- Excellent nursing clinical assessment and intervention skills
- Experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Proven facilitation, communication and counselling skills
- Excellent and proven goal-directed, solution-focused interpersonal skills
- The successful candidate will require a valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle
- Fluency in French language (written and oral) an asset.
Click the below link to apply:
https://kinark.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/308
Kinark Child and Family Services conditions of employment include but are not limited to successful Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector Screening, completed Pre-Employment Medical certificate, and proof of full vaccination by November 15, 2021. Fully vaccinated is defined as having received all required doses of a World Health Organization Approved COVID-19 Vaccine and 14 days have passed since last dose. Proof of vaccination for each vaccine dose received is required.