Primary Care | Registered Nurse

Oliver Health Centre has an exciting opportunity for a casual Primary Health Care Registered Nurse specializing in Rural & Remote Adult Mental Health & Substance Use, working at four Primary Care Clinics (Desert Doctors, Bridge side Medical, Osoyoos Medical Centre, and Osoyoos Indian Band Health Centre).

Hours of work are rotating Days Monday to Friday – 08:30 to 16:30.

Join our team as a casual employee, with work hours ranging from 0 to 37.5 per week. You’ll have shifts available on short notice or pre‑scheduled to cover leaves. Many team members start in casual roles and transition into permanent positions. We offer competitive wages, shift premiums, employer‑paid training, and an Employee & Family Assistance Program.

• A Cover Letter stating your availability to start in a new position and on‑call, casual work (i.e., days of the week).

The Primary Care Nurse practices in accordance with the standards of professional practice and code of ethics as outlined by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). The nurse works in an interprofessional, collaborative, team‑based care environment with physicians, nurse practitioners, allied health and community partners to provide comprehensive and coordinated nursing care in in‑hospital and non‑in‑hospital primary care, virtual, community, outreach, and client‑home settings.

Interior Health Primary Care offers a wide range of services; practice areas may include primary care networks, longitudinal primary care, urgent and primary care episodic/longitudinal care, sexual health, women and children’s health, maternity and perinatal care, mental health and substance use, and rural and remote care.

Through consultation, triage, assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation, the nurse delivers client and family‑centered care services via health promotion and prevention activities, care interventions, and teaching based on the client’s needs, urgency of request and best practices. The nurse ensures clients, families, caregivers, and communities have easy access to timely, person‑centered, holistic, continuous and culturally safe quality health services. The nurse responds to changing health‑care needs to achieve optimal health focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, living well with complex chronic conditions and end‑of‑life care.

The nurse provides client and family‑centered care through a trauma‑informed approach, evidence‑informed practice, and honoring Indigenous knowledge, wisdom and diversity. The nurse establishes a dignifying, purposeful and trusting relationship with clients, promoting self‑determination and independence. The nurse encourages knowledge exchange in day‑to‑day activities and empowers clients to engage and connect within their communities. A health equity, social justice and social determinants of health lens is applied to all key responsibilities.

The nurse supports clients and their family members in navigating the health‑care system.