SAFER Licensed Practical Nurse - PT- FTE
Job in
Coquitlam, BC, Canada
Listing for:
AVI Health and Community Services
Part Time
position
Listed on 2026-03-13
Job specializations:
-
Nursing
Healthcare Nursing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: SAFER Licensed Practical Nurse - PT- 0.48FTE
AVI Health & Community Services (AVI)
increases health equity by providing highly responsive, harm reduction‑based HIV, hepatitis C, substance use, sexual health, mental health, and other community health services, and is informed by the voices of people with living experience. We envision a community where people can experience optimal health and wellness, and be free from stigma, marginalization, and criminalization. For more information see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org
SAFER
is a flexible, community-based, harm reduction program that provides safer, pharmaceutical alternatives to the currently toxic drug supply. SAFER is located on the territories of the Ləkʷəŋən peoples (Esquimalt and Xwsepsum nations).
JOB SUMMARY:Under the direct supervision of the Clinical Nurse Lead or designate, and the Nurse Manager, the SAFER Nurse will work in partnership with an interdisciplinary team to provide participant-centered healthcare including assessment, screening, and education to support participants who are accessing SAFER. The SAFER Nurse will use a harm reduction, trauma-informed approach and is required to have demonstrated clinical skills and experience to independently assess individuals with complex primary care health needs and active poly‑substance use.
KEY
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:Provide care and support for individuals with high levels of poly‑substance use and a variety and complexity of acute and chronic conditions, related but not exclusive to conditions of poverty and criminalization.Work both independently (under the Working Alone Policy, when appropriate) and collaboratively with the SAFER team to support people contemplating or accessing prescribed pharmaceutical alternatives to illegal/toxic substances.Provide care, assessment, screening, education, referrals, and advocacy regarding substance use, acute and chronic health concerns, mental health, sexual health, wound management, and general wellness, including primary and specialist care, substance use services, diagnostic and laboratory services, and medication management.Provide harm reduction support through collaborative risk reduction strategy.Collaborate with participants and SAFER team to develop and maintain individualized care plans, providing ongoing monitoring and support with participants in accordance with the care plan.Work with community partners to ensure seamless support of mutual participants.Provide screening and assessment and administer medications as ordered by program physicians and according to clinical protocols.Provide education, information and appropriate referrals that are responsive to the self‑identified needs of participants to manage their health, enhance understanding of their health status, and navigate through the various services and community supports related to their care.Participate in staff meetings, trainings, educational forums, and engagement in community building and networking.Performs other duties as assigned.QUALIFICATIONS:Licensed Practical Nurse registered with the BCCNM regulator.Minimum 1 to 5 years’ full scope nursing experience working with people with high levels of poly‑substance use and mental health challenges.Previous experience working in supervised consumption/overdose prevention services, safer supply or other harm reduction programs.Demonstrated commitment to social justice principles and practices, including harm reduction, anti‑racism, decolonization, combating stigma related to drug use, HIV, hepatitis C, and challenging gendered oppression, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia.Experience working in solidarity with diverse populations including people who are criminalized for their drug use; people who are denied housing/precariously housed/warehoused; racialized identities;
Indigenous persons; LGBTQI2S+ identities; sex workers; people with disabilities.Relevant or applicable training/experience in anti‑racism and a demonstrated commitment to anti‑colonial learning/unlearning.Strong analysis of colonialism and intergenerational impacts of historical and ongoing colonization.Demonstrated understanding of public health and equity‑oriented models of social support and health care.Strong…
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