Nurse Practitioner - Outreach Job Kitchener area,Ontario Canada,Healthcare

About Community Health caring Kitchener-Waterloo (The Health Centre)

The Health Centre provides a broad range of services aimed at improving the health of individuals and the wider community. Our services include medical and dental care, health promotion, illness prevention and outreach programming. Our expertise and resources are focused on working with those who experience health inequities and barriers to accessing health services. Collaborating as an interdisciplinary team, we provide services and supports that address the social determinants of health including factors and barriers such as poverty, inadequate housing, food insecurity, substance use, language and culture, as well as stigma and social exclusion.

The Health Centre works with the most complex client population served by primary health care professionals within Waterloo Region. Our highly skilled and diverse team works from a strength-based approach with individual clients as well as the broader community. We collaborate with many partner agencies and organizations within Waterloo Region. Our team consists of Family Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Social Workers, Dietitians, Chiropodists, Pharmacists, Psychiatrists, Health Promoters, Community Health Workers, Administrative Staff and Volunteers.

We invite you to consider this opportunity to join our team and contribute to this important work.

The Health Centre is currently recruiting for the following position:

NURSE PRACTITIONER – OUTREACH Part-time Permanent – 22.5-37.5 hours per week (0.6 FTE, up to 1.0 FTE) Salary: $62.29 - $73.18 per hour Benefit package

3 weeks paid vacation to start; 4 weeks vacation after 1 year

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Employee & Family Assistance Program

Paid Public Holidays & Sick Leave

Defined Benefit Pension Plan (HOOPP)

Job Summary:

The Nurse Practitioner primary focus of this position is to support CHCKW outreach teams that serve individuals who are homeless and precariously housed. Often, these individuals are more complex due to mental health and addiction issues. This position works closely with outreach clients and provides support to mobile primary care teams & will participate in the HART hub locations. In addition, our outreach teams work with other partners of the Inner City Health Alliance that serve the same clients.

Responsibilities:

Perform assessment, diagnosis, treatment, health education/counselling and other clinical activities in accordance with the College of Nurses of Ontario standards of practice for Registered Nurses in the Extended Class (NPs) and all relevant provincial legislation and regulations.

Work from a Social Determinants of Health perspective to improve health outcomes for individual clients and/or for the development of community health and well-being, and to reduce health inequities.

Use a Harm Reduction approach with clients who may exhibit behaviours that place their health at risk.

Provide addiction and mental health care imbedded in the primary care model for people with complex physical and mental health needs.

Triage client needs either over phone, by video visit or in person.

Maintain accurate and up to date clinical notes in accordance with NP’s professional standards and CHCKW policy.

Participate in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health promotion/disease prevention programs for individuals and client populations as determined by CHCKW.

Work with members of the Inner City Health Alliance (or other social service agencies) to contribute to larger initiatives such as vaccination clinics, isolation spaces, covid response, etc.

Provide input/explore Outreach locations and connect with other agencies to create new partnerships regarding outreach client care

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