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Nurse b - Addictions

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April 15 2025
Expected expiry date: April 26 2025
Industries Healthcare, social assistance
Categories Nursing,
Saskatoon, SK • Full time
  • Job Identification 52281
  • Job Category Mental Health and Addiction Services
  • Posting Date 04/15/2025, 12:00 AM
  • Locations Addictions Outreach Office
  • Apply Before 04/26/2025, 12:00 AM
  • Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

Position #: 185629

Expected Start Date: May 05, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: Addictions Outreach Office

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Addiction Serv Res Care Unit & Trtmt Facil-Adult Outreach & Target Prev Services

Type: Full-time temporary

Expected Up to Date: December 31, 2025

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days, Evenings, Weekends

Hours of Work: 224 hours in a 6-week period

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: Yes

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Nurse B $42.040 to $52.440

Travel Required: No

Job Description: As a member of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Community Mental Health Nurse is an integral member of the multidisciplinary team providing intensive case management to individuals with chronic and persistent mental illness. These services are provided within an individual and group context. Responsibilities include intensive case management, medication management, crisis intervention, counselling, goal planning, consultation to community agencies, group/community education, student mentoring, documentation, client/family and public education, advocacy, and mental health promotion.

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience

  • 3 years' experience in a community or acute mental health setting

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Other Education and Training

  • Nursing diploma is acceptable
  • Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)

Competencies

  • Critical thinking skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Advanced - Demonstrates word processing skills using Microsoft Office programs

Knowledge and Abilities

  • Ability to treat patients with compassion and empathy
  • Knowledge of the Mental Health Services Act
  • Knowledge in Provincial Addiction Clinical Model and DSM-4R
  • Knowledge in mental health and addictions and concurrent medical conditions
  • Knowledge in methadone/methadone assisted recovery
  • Knowledge in drugs of abuse and their effects
  • Demonstrates empathy, trust and respect in the provision of care
  • Demonstrated high degree of accuracy is required of assigned responsibility
  • Knowledge in Mental Health nursing processes and appropriate interventions
  • Knowledge of Motivational Interviewing/Assessment
  • Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Advanced knowledge of drug abuse and their effects during use and withdrawal
  • Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Knowledge in harm reduction in Addictions Medicine
  • Knowledge Transtheoretical Model of Change

Other Information

  • For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
  • Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)

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.

We work together to improve our health and well-being. Every day. For everyone.
We are committed to building a representative, diverse, inclusive, and culturally responsive workforce.
We are committed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action.
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.