Community Health Nurse - Supervised Injection Services
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, Canada
Job Description
Internal/External Employment Opportunity
Position Title: Community Health Nurse Supervised Injection Services
Component/Team: Oasis
Status: Permanent, 1.0 FTE Full-Time (35 hours per week)
Salary Scale: $66,448 - $80,044 annualized salary plus benefits + 10% Premium to the hourly rate for hours worked on Saturday and Sunday
Start Date: Immediately
APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 19, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
Position Description:
The Community Health Nurse 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 Nurse SIS (Oasis) is to work with clients to help them achieve their desired health goals by establishing trusting relationships, conducting nursing assessments, engaging in health teaching and harm reduction counselling related to drug use, monitoring for signs of drug overdose or anaphylaxis, and intervening in emergency situations based on the centre’s policies and procedures and according to the College of Nurses of Ontario standards of nursing practice. As a member of the larger interprofessional care team, the Community Health Nurse may also provide primary care to people who experience barriers to accessing care due to their use of street drugs and concurrent disorders.
This may include providing immunizations, wound care, offering screening, counseling and testing for sexually transmitted infections and blood-borne infections such as HIV and Hepatitis C and connecting clients to substance use treatment services (including opioid agonist treatment) and other health and social services when appropriate (i.e. housing, income support, food support, mental health counseling). The Community Health Nurse may also conduct intake assessments for our opioid agonist treatment service and will be working in our upcoming injectable opioid agonist treatment service (injectable hydromorphone).
Reporting Relationship:
The Community Health Nurse, 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 Nurse, the incumbent is responsible for 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:
Education, Language and Training
- Undergraduate degree in nursing from a recognized university or combination of nursing diploma and additional relevant courses/training
- Certificate of competence (Registered Nurse) from the College of Nurses of Ontario
- First Aid and CPR (level C) Certificate
- Fluency in English, both oral and written
- Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services:
- French (oral expression): Advanced +
- French (oral comprehension): Advanced +
- French (reading comprehension): Intermediate
Professional Experience
- Three to five years nursing experience in a community setting or combination of community and hospital or public health settings: experience in a primary care setting an asset
- 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 overwhelming substance use disorders, and other marginalized groups
- Experience working within a harm reduction approach
- Experience in mental health and substance use disorders
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of the impact of the social determinants of health on HIV, hepatitis C and substance use an asset
- Strong interpersonal, organizational and problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills, including health education
- Excellent counseling skills, including motivational interviewing
- Excellent physical assessment skills
- Ability to incorporate and strengthen collaborative and interdisciplinary teamwork
- Ability to work with street-involved populations.
- 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 flexibilit