Public Health Nurse​/Clinical Practitioner

Public Health Nurse / Clinical Practitioner (Across Canada) Location Canada

Requisition Code 15299 Compensation Range (CAD) $75,030 to $83,367 ($41.23–$45.81/hour)

Title:Public Health Nurse / Senior Clinical Health Specialist

Employee Working

Location:

In-person (Across Canada)

Employment status:Casual

The Canadian Red Cross (Red Cross) – an inspirational not for profit organization, helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience. As a Canada’s Best Employers 2026
, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment.

The incumbent will be reporting to Site Manager / Clinical Lead / Local Health Partner / Health Roster Managers, and under the clinical leadership of the Health in Emergencies, the Public Health Nurse (PHN) will deploy to different clinical settings in their province or territory and/or across Canada to support local health authorities or communities. The role will include providing direct clinical care to beneficiaries and may require the ability to practice independently in low resources settings and may be located in communities without an onsite Physician or diagnostics team.

Virtual support would be provided in this case. There may be opportunities to be assigned to a different role based on clinical experience.

The PHN role focuses primarily on maternal/child health, school health, communicable disease, and immunization programs to improve the health of the population and assist the partner in meeting their public health needs

• Complete the appropriate CRC Learning Pathway required for deployment
• Complete Site-Specific Training as outlined / required by the partner
• Obtain licensure for the province / territory where being deployed to
• Ensure all certifications / licensures / resume are current
• Ensure professional indemnity coverage through CNPS current
• Adhere to any prerequisite medical requirements

The Public Health Nurse provides health promotion, disease prevention, education, assessment, counseling, and consultation services to individuals, groups, and communities within the framework provided by the health partner including but not limited to the following:

• Assessments and interventions across the life span, including clinical assessment during perinatal, postpartum and newborn visits. Services may be offered in communities, homes, schools, and various outreach locations.
• Provide infant feeding support and education.
• Perform infant, child, youth, and family care through consultation, education, and service coordination including early identification and intervention of developmental concerns through directing appropriate referrals.
• Planning, delivering, and evaluating childhood and school-age immunization programs as well as adult and elder booster programs
• Provide health education on various topics such as immunization, chronic disease prevention, safety, healthy lifestyle, reproductive health for adolescents and adults, and more.
• Ongoing testing, diagnosis, treatment, and contact tracing for communicable disease processes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members, community care partners, and patient families to develop plans of care and address the needs of the patient and/or community.
• Ability to consult MDs over the phone and provide SBAR reports to ensure full clinical picture and appropriate intervention.
• Demonstrate awareness of culture and traditions and incorporate this knowledge into practice, to provide culturally safe care at all times.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-cultural setting, ensuring that CRC Fundamental Principles are acknowledged and maintained during patient and employee interactions

• Provides communicable disease surveillance and intervention through epidemiological principles including outbreak management and identifying reportable diseases.
• Provide community guidance on outbreak management in collaboration with Health team.
• Provide TB programming appropriate for the TB epidemiology and protocol within community of placement.