Nurse Practitioner - Integrated Health Services Program

Internal/External Employment Opportunity

Position Title: Nurse Practitioner - Integrated Health Services Program

Component/Team: Integrated Health Services Program

Status: Permanent, 1.0 FTE Full-Time (35 hours per week)

Salary Scale: $109,637 – $132,096 annualized salary plus benefits

Start Date: Immediately

APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 5, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

Position Description:

The Nurse Practitioner is a member of the Integrated 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 Nurse Practitioner is to work with all clients to help them achieve their desired health goals.

Reporting Relationship:

As an employee of the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, the incumbent is responsible to the Director of Health Services and through them to the Executive Director.

As a Nurse Practitioner, 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:

Education and Language

• A Master’s degree in nursing from a recognized university
• Certificate of competence from the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Nurse in the Extended Class with the ability to prescribe controlled substances
• Under the Centre’s designation to provide French Language Services, this position is designated bilingual required:
• French (oral expression): Advanced +
• French (oral comprehension): Advanced +
• French (reading comprehension): Advanced +
• Fluency in English, both oral and written

Professional Experience

• Three to five years’ experience in community and/or public health settings
• Experience working with a broad range of populations including: people who use drugs, people with HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, street involved people, transgender, men who have sex with men, sex trade workers, people with mental illness, people with substance use disorder, and other marginalized groups
• Experience working with clients with diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds
• Experience working with refugees and newcomers to Canada
• Experience working within a harm reduction approach

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of the impact of social/cultural/economic factors on the determinants of health
• Knowledge, understanding, and sensitivity to the complexity of issues arising for individuals who have experienced homelessness, problematic substance use, poverty and/or mental illness     
• Proficient in the provision of Opioid Agonist Therapies   
• Excellent counseling skills
• Excellent physical assessment skills
• Strong crisis intervention skills, suicide intervention skills, organizational skills, communication skills and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment
• Ability to work collaboratively within and across multi-disciplinary teams and community partners
• Ability to work with psychiatrically challenged clients, disenfranchised groups and multicultural communities of all ages
• Ability to work with clients presenting a wide range of health issues        
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment
• Commitment to and knowledge of community-based health care
• Demonstrated flexibility, sound judgment, initiative & creativity
• Proficiency in the use of computers and various software applications
• Respects and values the diversity of communities and individuals

Benefits

Sandy Hill Community Health Centre offers employees an excellent benefits package which includes four 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 consistent with the clinic’s hours which is Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and/or from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.

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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