RN FTE- Community Health Centre Clinic STI Nurse Job Nanaimo area,BC Canada,Healthcare

Position: RN 0.8FTE- Community Health Centre Clinic STI Nurse

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). The AVI Nanaimo Community Health Centre (CHC) hosts a variety of program options for community members and service users to access.

AVI nurses work across different programs, providing care and support to clients/participants across a range and a continuum of health and wellness.

The CHC provides primary care, HIV/HCV, substance use, OAT, STBBI, PrEP/PEP medical services, as well as outreach, supports, and social programming. It provides streamlined access to addiction medicine and substance use services while offering a host of complementary supports under one roof including the Enhanced Harm Reduction Service (EHR) Program.

The EHR is a flexible, community‑based, nursing led, harm reduction program that provides pharmaceutical alternatives to the toxic street drug supply along with wrap around supports. The EHR program aims to help individuals reduce their risk of dying from a drug poisoning event and our service users may not have sobriety or abstinence as their goals of care.

Our services are delivered across the traditional territories of the Snuneymuxw, Stz’uminus, and Snaw'naw'as People.

Join our supportive, dedicated and client-centered team in promoting the health, dignity and well-being of all people affected by HIV, HCV and substance use by delivering sex-positive and harm reduction-based education, prevention and/or support services.

Job Summary

The CHC STI nurse will support HIV, HCV, and STBBI prevention, testing, and treatment services in our Nanaimo office. The position entails the delivery of preventive clinical services in addition to communicable disease and STI education, consultation, and counselling. The STI nurse will provide CD investigation of individuals cases, clusters, and outbreaks including reportable blood borne diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, as well as potential STEIs (sexually transmitted enteric infections).

Duties

and Responsibilities

Provide intake, assessment, access to medication, education, referral, advocacy, follow-up and support for clients requiring OAT, Primary Care, STBBI, PrEP, PEP, and EHR services.

Provide care and support to individuals with high levels of poly-substance use, a variety and complexity of acute and chronic conditions, related but not exclusive to conditions of poverty and criminalization.

Assist clients with a variety of income, medical, and disability forms/documents including but not limited to PWD, nutritional supplementation, ICBC, etc.

Support clients who may be eligible for Hepatitis C treatment and follow-up.

Work as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide outreach services and harm reduction supplies to vulnerable/marginalized clients and communities who are at high risk for HIV/AIDS, HCV, blood borne infections.

Provide frontline primary care health care services to clients in the form of immediate assessment, intervention, referral or treatment.

Provide support to clients that includes primary and specialist care, mental health, sexual health, wound management, diagnostic and laboratory services, and medication adherence/management.

Provide systems navigation, advocacy and active referral to housing, disability, mental health, and substance use services, nutrition support, and other relevant services.

Provide Harm Reduction support through collaborative, risk reduction strategies, education, distribution of harm reduction supplies, overdose prevention education, including Naloxone training and distribution.

Work independently and collaboratively with the AVI Nanaimo team to support people contemplating or accessing pharmaceutical alternatives to illegal/toxic substances in a variety of settings, such as parks, drop-in centers, shelters, supported housing units, and overdose prevention sites, etc.

Provide education, information, and appropriate referrals, responsive to the self-identified needs of participants to manage their health, enhance the understanding of their health status, and navigate through the diverse services, and community supports related to their care.

Identify the health issues, behaviors, needs, barriers and challenges for an at-risk population.

Participate in multidisciplinary case coordination for clients living with HIV and/or HCV.

Collaborate with participants and the AVI Team to develop and maintain individualized care plans, providing ongoing monitoring and support with clients, in accordance with the care plan.

Initiate, administer, and document any publicly funded vaccines provided to eligible clients/participants.

Provide screening, assessment and…