Nurse B - Addictions

Position #: 9000845

Expected Start Date: March 17, 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

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work: 28 shifts of 8 hours per 6 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

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

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)