Registered Nurse

The Rexdale Community Health Centre (the “Centre) is a multi-service Centre providing an essential array of primary health care, settlement, community support, health promotion and community development activities to a diverse community focusing on women, families, youth and seniors. The Centre is recruiting a full-time, permanent Registered Nurse to work with a dynamic primary care team.

The IPCT is a collaborative initiative dedicated to providing culturally competent, comprehensive, and holistic primary healthcare services to marginalized communities, particularly focusing on the Black, Francophone, and racialized populations in North Etobicoke and surrounding areas. Our team comprises diverse healthcare professionals committed to addressing the social determinants of health and achieving equitable health outcomes for all.

Position Summary:

As a Registered Nurse, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred primary healthcare services to individuals and families in marginalized communities. Working within our Interprofessional Primary Care Team (IPCT), you will be responsible for assessment, program management and education, care coordination, treatment and operational support within your full scope of practice.

This position requires a commitment to culturally competent care, collaboration with interdisciplinary team members, and a passion for serving underserved communities.

The position reports to the Director, Primary Health Care Services.

Responsibilities:

• Providing comprehensive primary health care to clients of all ages within the full scope of an RN, including assessments, counselling, screening, referral, education, treatment, and follow-up. This is done by participating in our triage/same-day urgent care services, scheduled appointments, off-site programming and outreach clinics
• Supporting primary health care services to family physicians and nurse practitioners as required in a triage/floater nurse capacity
• Initiate and implement diverse health promotion strategies, including health education and community development, to support diverse populations and communities to increase control over and improve their health
• Participating in primary health care programs and service delivery within the broader community context in partnerships with other institutions as may be required from time to time, including workshop facilitation, advocacy and consultation
• Develop and maintain information resources for the Centre and educational displays on selected health topics as required
• Participating in all organizational systems and structures as required, including but not limited to quality assurance and performance evaluation
• Maintaining the inventory of medical equipment and supplies and sterilization of equipment according to established standards and guidelines.
• Willingness to work evening and weekend shifts when required/scheduled
• Willingness to work at our affiliated primary care practices, such as FHO, Walk ins etc.

Qualifications

• Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Bachelor of Nursing Degree; complementary post-secondary education in public policy considered an asset
• Experience in a community health centre and/or family practice setting preferred
• Thorough familiarity with therapeutic methods and practices based upon a health promotion/disease prevention model
• Thorough understanding of health promotion and community development principles
• Ability to work collaboratively with physicians, nurse practitioners and the interdisciplinary health care team and independently when necessary
• Experience in developing and evaluating client education materials
• Demonstrated commitment to principles of an anti-oppression and cultural competence framework
• Excellent interpersonal, communication (written and verbal), problem-solving, organizational and time management skills
• An interest and commitment to working in a low-income, multilingual, multiracial community
• Thorough knowledge of broad determinants of health and issues affecting low-income, multilingual and racialized LGBTQ communities
• The ability to speak a second language of our priority populations is an asset, e.g. Arabic, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Tamil, Spanish and Somali
• Experience in using electronic medical records
• Demonstrated flexibility to work in a fast‑paced, ever‑changing environment.

Salary: $67,287 to $81,065 annually (depending on experience) plus HOOPP and benefits

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