Community Health RPN - Supervised Injection Services
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, Canada
Job Description
Internal/External Employment Opportunity
Position Title: Community Health RPN Supervised Injection Services
Component/Team: Oasis
Status: Permanent, 1.0 FTE Full-Time (35 hours per week)
Salary Scale: $47,884 $57,676 annualized salary plus benefits + 10% Premium to the hourly rate for hours worked Saturday and Sunday
Start Date: Immediately
APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 19, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Position Description:
The Community Health RPN, SIS is a member of the Oasis team and works closely with team members to provide the highest possible quality of health care services to clients.
The role of the Community Health RPN, SIS is to work with clients to help them achieve their desired health goals by conducting nursing assessments, health education/ counselling and performing specific procedures related to supervised injection including overdose assessment and intervention, in the Consumption and Treatment Service and standard assessments and medication dispensing in the injectable opioid agonist treatment service based on Centre protocols and according to the College of Nurses of Ontario standards of nursing practice.
Reporting Relationship:
The Community Health RPN, SIS is directly accountable to the Oasis Program Manager for the carrying out of his/her duties and through the Oasis Program Manager to the Director of Oasis and to the Executive Director.
As a Community Health RPN, the incumbent is responsible to meeting the licensing and regulatory requirements of the College of Nurses as the professional governing body.
Requirements
Skills, Education and Experience:
Requirements for this position include:
Skills, Education and Experience:
Requirements for this position include:
Education and Language
- College DiplomaRegistered Practical Nursing Program
- Certificate of competence from the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Overdose Intervention
- Fluency in English, both oral and written
- Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services this position is designated bilingual preferred (linguistic abilities in French considered essential):
- French (oral expression): Advanced +
- French (oral comprehension): Advanced +
- French (reading comprehension): Intermediate
Professional Experience
- Three to five years nursing experience working with people with substance use disorder and/or mental health issues
- Experience working within a harm reduction approach
- Experience working with a broad range of populations, including: people with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, street involved people, transgendered people, men who have sex with men, sex trade workers, people with mental illness, people with substance use disorder, and other marginalized groups
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of the impact of the social determinants of health on HIV, hepatitis C and substance use disorder and recovery
- Understand how to apply harm reduction strategies within a clinical setting
- Strong interpersonal, organizational and problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills, including health education
- Ability to work with people with concurrent disorders
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary care giving team
- Ability to work within the mandate of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre and the Oasis Program
- Ability to work under stress with multiple demands
- Ability to work outside regular hours
- Proficiency in the use of computers and various software applications
- Demonstrated flexibility, good judgment, initiative amp; creativity
- Respects and values the diversity of communities and individuals
- Sensitivity and alertness to signs of a client in crisis
- Commitment to and knowledge of community-based health care
Hours of Work
- Must be available for shift work, including evenings and some weekends. Shifts will be based on a rotating six week schedule and will be 9.5 hours in length (excluding breaks)
Benefits
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre offers employees an excellent benefits package which includes 4 weeks holidays (pro-rated to status) in addition to a Pension Plan (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan - HOOPP) and excellent Group Insurance Plan.
Conditions of Employment:
Hours of work will be developed in collaboration wi