Registered Psychiatric Nurse
Your Opportunity:
As a Casual Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) or Registered Nurse (RN) with the START Psychiatry Day Hospital at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, you will provide patient/family-centered care promoting recovery, dignity, autonomy, and quality of life for older adults with complex mental health, cognitive, behavioral, substance use, and chronic health challenges. In this dynamic position, you will provide comprehensive psychosocial nursing assessments, mood and anxiety screening, suicide risk evaluations, and therapeutic interventions, including group facilitation, individual goal-setting, and motivational interviewing to promote meaningful change. Working as an integral member of the interdisciplinary team, you will contribute to treatment planning, therapeutic group programming and discharge preparation, including completing referrals to follow-up community-based programs and services to coordinate recovery-oriented care extending beyond the Day Hospital setting.
Description:
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 Recovery Alberta.
- Classification: Registered Psychiatric Nurse
- Union: United Nurses of Alberta
- Unit and Program: START Psychiatry Day Hospital
- Primary Location: Glenrose Rehabilitation Hosp
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: At (UNA only)
- FTE: 0.00
- Posting End Date: 09-NOV-2026
- Employee Class: Casual/Relief
- Date Available: 19-NOV-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: Varies
- Shifts per cycle: Varies
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Other
- Minimum Salary: $44.56
- Maximum Salary: $60.98
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
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).
Additional Required Qualifications:Minimum 2 years experience working with adults or older adults with new onset and long-term psychiatric issues, personality disorders, complex psychosocial issues, and/or cognitive impairment. Minimum 1 year experience leading psychoeducation, behavioral activation and/or mental health skills-training groups. Minimum 1 year experience with psychiatric crisis management. Experience working in a shared multidisciplinary model of practice. Nov-Violent Crisis Intervention training.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience with ConnectCare/EMR documentation. Working knowledge of community programs and services for older adults with mental health disorders. Experience with case coordination. Experience with provision of complimentary mental health therapies such as meditation and positive psychology. Completion of SPRAM Modules.
