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Position Title: Community Health Nurse

Component/Team: Health Services

Status: Permanent, 0.5 FTE Part-Time (17.5 hours per week)

Salary Scale: $66,448 – $80,044 annualized salary plus benefits, both pro-rated to part-time status

Start Date: Immediately

APPLICATION DEADLINE: September 15, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.

New graduates are encouraged to apply

Position Description:

The Community Health Nurse is a member of the Health Services 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 is to work with clients to help them achieve their desired health goals.

Reporting Relationship:

The Community Health Nurse is directly accountable to the Health Services Clinical Leader for the carrying out of his/her duties and through the Clinical Leader to the Director of Health Services.

As a Community Health Nurse, the incumbent is responsible to meeting the licensing and regulatory requirements of the College of Nurses of Ontario as the professional governing body.

Requirements

Skills, Education and Experience:

Requirements for this position include:

Education and Language

• Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services:
• French (oral expression): Advanced +
• Fluency in English, both oral and written
• French (reading comprehension): Intermediate
• French (oral comprehension): Advanced +
• Undergraduate degree in nursing from a recognized university or combination of nursing diploma and additional relevant courses/training
• Certificate of competence from the College of Nurses of Ontario

Preferred Professional Experience

• Experience working within a harm reduction approach
• Experience working in mental health and substance use disorders
• 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 and clients

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Sensitivity and alertness to signs of a client in crisis
• Ability to work with people living with mental health, substance use disorder and newcomers to Canada
• Strong interpersonal, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work within the mandate of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre
• Effective communication skills
• Ability to work under stress with multiple demands
• Excellent physical assessment skills
• Knowledge of the impact of social/cultural/economic factors on the determinants of health
• Excellent counseling skills
• Ability to incorporate and strengthen collaborative and interdisciplinary teamwork
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary care giving team
• Demonstrated flexibility, good judgment, initiative & creativity
• Commitment to and knowledge of community-based health care
• Respects and values the diversity of communities and individuals
• Proficiency in the use of computers and various software applications
• Ability to work outside regular hours

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 with the successful candidate to ensure a healthy work-life balance. A schedule of work will be based on the Centre’s hours of operation and program requirements.

An offer of employment will be conditional upon the candidate completing a criminal reference check, verification of educational requirement for this position and linguistic profile to the satisfaction of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre.

Accommodation:

SHCHC will provide accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its recruitment process.

If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation due to disability, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.

Clients of the Centre are welcome to apply. Should a client become the successful candidate, they will no longer be able to continue receiving services at Sandy Hill Community Health Centre. Assistance will be made available to find an alternative provider.

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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