Providence Health Care’s Mental Health Program is seeking passionate nurses with a strong background in psych nursing to join our hospital-wide Complex Intervention Response Team (CIRT) and Psychiatric Consult Liaison (CL) service as casuals. 

As part of these unique, referral-based teams, you won’t be assigned to just one unit — you’ll support patients and staff across the hospital, ensuring mental health and substance use concerns are addressed alongside medical needs. As a clinical leader and educator, you’ll help build frontline capacity, strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, and promote best practices in psychiatric care in non-psychiatric settings, ensuring that regardless of where a patient or clinician is, we are delivering the best patient care possible. 

CIRT is composed of Nurses, Peer Support Workers, Social Workers, and Psychiatrists, while the CL service is Psychiatrists and Nurse Educators.  

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team and collaborate on care planning: Develop and implement care plans with interdisciplinary teams across non-psychiatric units, integrating psychiatric and medical needs.
• Support and empower point-of-care nurses: Act as a clinical resource for bedside nurses, building confidence and capacity to manage patients with mental health concerns.
• Gather patient collateral: Collect key information from patients, families, and records to inform consult recommendations and education strategies.
• Liaise with community teams: Coordinate with community providers to promote continuity of care and support staff education around available resources.
• Triage and prioritize based on acuity: Monitor consult requests and direct educational and clinical support to the most urgent cases.
• Promote best practice and continuous improvement: Integrate evidence-based psychiatric care standards into staff education, quality improvement, and policy updates.

Education, Training, and Experience

• Registration with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives as a practicing RN registrant or in mental health services and extended and intermediate care, registration as a practicing RN or RPN registrant.
• Two (2) years’ recent, related experience in the area of specialty/practice or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to teach, coach, and provide clinical support.
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) procedures appropriate for the area of service.
• Ability to identify learning needs and develop educational programs.
• Ability to provide and/or develop resource materials, including educational materials.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of adult education principles.
• Ability to lead a group.
• Ability to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to apply decision making and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to role model conflict resolution strategies.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work independently.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to operate related equipment, including computers.

• Competitive salary: $49.20 - $63.47 CAD per hour, depending on experience 
• Growth opportunities: We welcome individuals at all stages of their career, offering opportunities for professional development and growth. 
• State-of-the-art facilities: The new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will be the most innovative approach to the delivery of integrated care in B.C. and Canada, designed to appropriately address the future health needs of patients, families, and our communities. From hospital care to primary and community health solutions, the new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will continue to lead innovations in care, research, and teaching. The new St. Paul’s Hospital is expected to open in 2027. 
• Inclusive culture: We respect the diversity, dignity and interdependence of all persons. We value the cultural richness that our diverse workforce brings to the care of our equally diverse population of patients and residents. 
• Meaningful impact: You will have the opportunity to work for an organization that is deeply committed to safeguarding of our surrounding environment by contributing to high quality care while promoting sustainable practices in your everyday work.
• A comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life insurance as well as pension. 

Who we are: 

Providence Health Care is one of the largest faith-based health care organizations in Canada. For the people at Providence, living our Mission, Vision and Values means providing British Columbians with compassionate, socially just, exceptional and innovative care every day.

From our humble roots 129 years ago, Providence Health Care has grown into a globally recognized leader in research, teaching, and care. As individuals within a mission-driven organization, we choose to be part of PHC because we value its long-standing dedication to social justice and compassionate care, its active efforts to advance environmental sustainability and planetary health, and its meaningful engagement in the process of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. 

Curious about working at PHC and the culture of our teams? Check out the videos and articles below to learn more and meet some of the members of the team you'd be joining:

2025 PHC Mission Awards - Mental Health Social Worker Lucky Pickering:

New Grads:

A Heart for Healing in Geriatric Psychiatry

Supporting the whole patient Complex Intervention Response Team (CIRT)

Reproductive Health: Supporting New Parents Through Compassion and Education

Eating Disorders: Food, freedom, and healing in eating disorder recovery

Foundry: Helping young people thrive through connection and creativity

Your Day to Day:

• Coaches staff in clinical nursing skills and behaviours by role modeling and through individual and group teaching.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing education programs within the clinical area in collaboration with the Patient Care Manager, Director of Professional Practice and Nursing, other nursing staff and other health care team members. Assesses requests for programs, validates learning needs through needs assessment and consultation, develops proposals and new programs as required to meet learning needs, coordinates, and schedules educational activities, identifies outcome indicators, and evaluates and revises programs accordingly.
• Assesses patients/families physical, emotional, and mental readiness and ability to learn, through physical assessments, discussions, completion of questionnaires, chart review and through collaboration with other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Organizes resources, supplies and equipment for patient/family home as required. Develops educational materials for patient/family such as pamphlets, brochures, instruction sheets, and manuals.
• Teaches patient and or significant others(s) to administer treatments and operate equipment safely, both at home and in the hospital.
• Coaches patient/family to develop and maintain health promoting behaviours within the context of the illness or disease and advocates for patient/family when they are unable to do so for themselves.
• Monitors patient progress by adjusting plan of care to ensure optimum patient outcomes, maintaining contact with patient at home and/or liaising with outside agencies and linking patient with community-based resources or referral options, as required. Maintains and updates patient treatment records, statistics, and other necessary documentation. Participates in interdisciplinary rounds and provides input regarding patient/family progress.
• Identifies trends in patient outcomes and make recommendations to the Patient Care Manager and/or Director of Professional Practice and Nursing on program modifications. Develops, implements, and evaluates patient education programs.
• Participates in research activities and the development of quality improvement initiatives with program/service by as promoting the use of research findings into practice and incorporating information into policies, procedures, reference materials, educational materials and teaching sessions. Acts on recommendations from interdisciplinary team regarding changes/modifications to educational materials, handouts, and in-service sessions.
• Supports nursing practice across PHC and represents the program/service by taking part in nursing, hospital/organization wide and community committees, designing, implementing, and evaluating hospital/organization wide educational programs, liaising with external agencies, and reporting information back to the program/service. Participates as a member of a teaching group. Teaches other members of the interdisciplinary team as required and acts as a clinical consultant to internal and external health care professionals in area of expertise.
• Provides direct nursing care, including physical assessments and administering medications and treatments.
• Participates as requested by the Patient Care Manager and/or staff member in performance planning and coaching by providing input into staff development, preparing, and presenting educational materials and in-service sessions related to program/service or area of expertise.
• Reviews program policies and procedures and makes recommendations to the Patient Care Manager and/or Director of Professional Practice and Nursing for changes. Updates as approved.
• Monitors, evaluates, and makes recommendations to the Patient Care Manager regarding physical space, equipment, supplies and staffing requirements.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

We acknowledge that Providence Health Care & the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Minimum Nurse-to-Patient Ratios (mNPR) set the minimum number of nurses required to safely care for patients on a given unit. Developed in partnership with the Ministry of Health, the BC Nurses’ Union (BCNU), and health organizations across British Columbia, mNPR provides a consistent and transparent approach to staffing that supports safe nursing practice and high‑quality patient care. At Providence Health Care (PHC), our approach to implementing mNPR reflects our commitment to person‑centred, socially just, compassionate care and our dedication to Indigenous cultural safety.

Guided by our mission and values – Spirituality, Integrity, Stewardship, Trust, Excellence, and Respect – PHC is working collaboratively across all departments to ensure mNPR is thoughtfully adapted to the unique needs of each clinical program and specialty area. This tailored, values‑driven implementation aligns with our commitment to compassionate, innovative, and patient‑centred care and positions PHC to meet the evolving health needs of our patients, residents, families, and communities.