Community Mental Health Nurse
January 9 2025
Expected expiry date: January 19 2025
Industries
Healthcare, social assistance
Categories Nursing, Population Health,
Saskatoon, SK • Full time
Job Description
Position #: 9001399
Expected Start Date: February 03, 2025
Union: SUN
Facility: Saskatoon Home Care Office - Idylwyld Centre
City/Town: Saskatoon
Department: Home First & Home Visit Program
Type: Full-time regular
FTE: 1
Shift Information: Days, Evenings, Weekends
Hours of Work: 28 shifts of 8 hours per 6 weeks
Relief: No
Float: No
Field Hours: No
Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Nurse B $42.040 to $52.440
Travel Required: Yes
Human Resources Exemption: No
Experience
- Experience with Adult education to staff/clients/patients/residents
- Five years recent experience in community care to clients with mental illness
- "Experience and demonstrated empathy in working with marginalized population "
Education
- Clinical specialization appropriate to the practice is required
Licenses
- Valid Class 5 driver's license
- Registered Nurse (RN)
- Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN)
Other Education and Training
- Experience and demonstrated empathy in working with the aged population an asset
- Experience with Adult education to other care providers an asset
- Experience working in an interdisciplinary team environment an asset
- Experience working with seniors and or adults with complex issues an asset
- Experience in quality monitoring and evaluation an asset
- Experience in program planning and evaluation an asset
Competencies
- Advanced Clinical Assessment skills
- Decision making skills
- Communication skills to provide/obtain verbal and/or written opinions/advice
- Critical thinking skills
Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge of common conditions of seniors/adults that have effect on MH
- Knowledge of the mental illnesses affecting seniors and adults
- Knowledge of related effects of ageing on mental health in seniors
- Ability to maintain good working relationships with the general public
- Knowledge in applicable principles of nursing process and interventions
- Ability to maintain harmonious working relationships.
- Demonstrates empathy, trust and respect in the provision of care
- Knowledge of treatment and effects of acute and post withdrawal
- Demonstrated ability to integrate research based theory into practice
- Ability to develop a monitoring program to assess and improve quality of care
- Knowledge of Delirium, Depression and Dementia: presentation, causes and treatment
- Knowledge of concurrent disorders in seniors
- Working understanding of the Mental Health Services Act and related legislation
- Ability to work independently
- Knowledge of substance abuse and the effects
- Ability to assume responsibility and work independently
- Understanding of nursing process and interventions for seniors with MH issues
- Knowledge of differences in treatment of mental illness in seniors from adults
About Us
The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is the largest employer in Saskatchewan, employing more than 45,000 staff in a dynamic healthcare environment. The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is committed to providing coordinated quality services that are seamless, safe and patient-centred.
Additional Information
Applicants must upload all relevant documents (ex: certificates, diplomas, proof of enrollment, licenses and/or memberships) relating to the qualifications of the position. By submitting your application, you consent to your application history and talent profile being shared with Human Resources and the applicable hiring team.
Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Those being interviewed are required to bring a valid Criminal Record Check (CRC) to the interview; it must be dated within six (6) months and include a vulnerable sector search.
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We work in the spirit of truth and reconciliation, acknowledging Saskatchewan as the traditional territory of First Nations and Métis People.
Please note: Only applications that include all required documentation will be considered.