Job Order Detail

Description

Position #: 177523

Expected Start Date: March 03, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: Addictions Outreach Office

City/Town: Saskatoon

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

Type: Full-time regular

FTE: 1

Hours of Work: 14 shifts of 8 hours per 3 weeks

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
- Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
- Nursing diploma is acceptable
Competencies
- Advanced - Demonstrates word processing skills using Microsoft Office programs
- Decision making skills
- Critical thinking skills
Knowledge and Abilities
- Knowledge in harm reduction in Addictions Medicine
- Knowledge in drugs of abuse and their effects
- Knowledge in Provincial Addiction Clinical Model and DSM-4R
- Demonstrated high degree of accuracy is required of assigned responsibility
- Ability to treat patients with compassion and empathy
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Services Act
- Knowledge Transtheoretical Model of Change
- Demonstrates ef...
For more information on this job, please visit the employer's website.