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Nurse b - Community Mental Health Nurse

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February 21 2025
Expected expiry date: March 3 2025
Industries Healthcare, social assistance
Categories Nursing,
Saskatoon, SK • Full time
  • Job Identification 42589
  • Job Category Mental Health and Addiction Services
  • Posting Date 02/21/2025, 09:28 AM
  • Locations Community Services 20th Street
  • Apply Before 03/03/2025, 09:28 AM
  • Job Schedule Full time

Job Description

Position #: 171465

Expected Start Date: March 10, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: Community Services 20th Street

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: New Alcohol and Drug Initiatives - Opioid Assisted Recovery

Type: Full-time temporary

Expected Up to Date: October 31, 2026

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days, Evenings

Hours of Work: 299 hours per 8 weeks

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: Yes

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

Travel Required: Yes

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

  • Three (3) years direct experience in addictions field

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Other Education and Training

  • Basic Life Support Level C Certificate (BLS-C)
  • Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
  • Workplace Assessment & Violence Education (WAVE)
  • Psychiatric Nursing diploma is acceptable
  • Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing is acceptable
  • Nursing diploma is acceptable

Competencies

  • Advanced - Computer skills
  • Intermediate - Critical thinking skills
  • Advanced - Writing skills
  • Intermediate - Decision making skills
  • Advanced - Verbal communication skills

Knowledge and Abilities

  • Knowledge in methadone/methadone assisted recovery
  • Knowledge in Provincial Addiction Clinical Model and DSM-4R
  • Advanced knowledge of drug abuse and their effects during use and withdrawal
  • Knowledge in harm reduction in Addictions Medicine
  • Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary and community partnership program
  • Ability to triage cases
  • Knowledge of Motivational Interviewing/Assessment
  • Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Knowledge of concurrent medical, psychiatric and substance abuse
  • Applied knowledge of Psychiatric/Psychological Disorders with substance abuse
  • Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Demonstrates empathy, trust and respect in the provision of care
  • Applied knowledge of Psychiatric/Psychological Disorders of substance dependency
  • Knowledge in Transtheoretical model of change
  • Demonstrated high degree of accuracy is required of assigned responsibility
  • Applied knowledge of drugs abuse and their effects during use and withdrawal
  • Knowledge Transtheoretical Model of Change

Other Information

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

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.