Nurse B - Addictions

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)