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Registered Nurse - Forensic Secure Unit BCAMH · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Registered Nurse - Forensic Secure Unit B

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-07 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full-time Hybrid Healthcare Medical
💰 Salary 6,584 CAD–9,437 CAD/mo (79,008 CAD–113,242 CAD/yr) 📊 Market 6,500 CAD–9,500 CAD/mo

About the Company

The Registered Nurse provides client-centered psychiatric and general nursing care to individuals with complex mental health, addiction, forensic, geriatric, and concurrent disorder needs. Working as part of an inter-professional team, the RN is responsible for comprehensive assessment, care planning, intervention, evaluation, safety, education, and collaboration to support recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and culturally competent care. To perform this role effectively, the Registered Nurse must demonstrate the competencies necessary to deliver safe, high-quality care within a dynamic clinical environment and enhance the nurse's ability to contribute to specialized populations, programming, and system-level initiatives. Through its core values of Courage, Respect and Excellence , CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan: Connected CAMH, to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system - a world where Mental Health is Health. To learn more about CAMH, please visit their website at: www.camh.ca . To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click here .

Responsibilities

  • ● Provide client-centered psychiatric and nursing care to individuals from diverse cultural and social backgrounds
  • ● Conduct comprehensive physical, mental status, and behavioural assessments
  • ● Develop, implement, and evaluate inter-professional plans of care for clients with complex mental health, addiction, forensic, and/or age-related needs
  • ● Monitor client responses to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions
  • ● Support clients with severe and persistent mental illness, concurrent disorders, and psychosocial rehabilitation needs
  • ● Apply critical thinking, clinical judgment, and problem-solving skills in dynamic and high-acuity situations
  • ● Utilize crisis intervention, de-escalation, and emergency psychiatry principles
  • ● Ensure the safety and security of the inpatient/client care environment
  • ● Facilitate and co-facilitate evidence-based group programming and individual therapeutic interventions
  • ● Deliver recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, culturally competent, and family-sensitive care
  • ● Participate in the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical programming and processes
  • ● Work collaboratively as a member of an inter-professional team
  • ● Liaise and collaborate with internal services and external community agencies to coordinate continuity of care
  • ● Apply knowledge of assessment processes and relevant legal and mental health systems, where applicable

Requirements

  • ● Provide education, guidance, and support to clients and families
  • ● Provide education, supervision, and mentorship to nursing students and learners
  • ● Participate in clinical supervision, reflective practice, and ongoing professional development
  • ● Contribute to clinical research activities and quality improvement initiatives
  • ● Maintain accurate, timely, and professional clinical documentation
  • ● Practice in accordance with professional regulatory standards, ethical guidelines, and organizational policies and procedures
  • ● Demonstrate leadership, accountability, and professionalism in all aspects of practice
  • ● Promote and contribute to a healthy, inclusive, and respectful workplace
  • ● Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)
  • ● Registered Nurse in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
  • ● Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (B.C.L.S./CPR) certification
  • ● Nursing experience caring for individuals with mental illness and/or addiction issues
  • ● Demonstrated ability to manage behaviour and respond effectively in crisis situations
  • ● Sound knowledge of psychiatric and mental health nursing practice, emergency psychiatry, crisis intervention, severe and persistent mental illness, addiction, trauma-informed care, recovery-oriented practice, and culturally competent care
  • ● Strong communication and interpersonal skills to support therapeutic relationships and inter-professional collaboration
  • ● Demonstrated leadership, decision-making, organizational, and problem-solving skills
  • ● Ability to work effectively within a diverse inter-professional team environment
  • ● Computer literacy and ability to use electronic clinical documentation systems
  • ● Ability to work rotating shifts, including days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays
  • ● CNA certification in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing and/or Gerontology
  • ● Knowledge of geriatric mental health, normal aging processes, and gerontological nursing principles
  • ● Knowledge of forensic mental health systems and legal frameworks
  • ● Experience with concurrent disorders and psychosocial rehabilitation models
  • ● Experience facilitating therapeutic or psychoeducational groups
  • ● Participation in clinical research or quality improvement initiatives
  • ● Bilingualism (French/English) and/or proficiency in a second language