Registered Nurse, IPC Health Bus Team

Internal/External posting

job title:
Registered Nurse, IPC Health Bus Team

job  #: IHS 25-1105 HB CS IPCRN

department:
Integrated Health Services

reports to:
Manager, Mobile Health and System Navigation

salary range: (MCS4) $34.66 – $43.88 per hour

status:
Casual, Contract (Three Months)

hours:
Casual (PTNS, Part Time Non-Standard)

vacancy: 1

Sherbourne is a leading provider of quality health care and transformative support to people who face social, economic, and other systemic barriers. Our mission is to be a dynamic provider of integrated health services, community programs and capacity-building initiatives that enable people and diverse communities to achieve wellness.

Sherbourne provides innovative health care and social services to the diverse urban population of southeast Toronto. While our doors are open to everyone, we focus on people experiencing homelessness or who are under‑housed; 2

SLGBTQ+, and newcomers to Canada. We are funded by the Ministry of Health, Ontario Health, Ministry of Community, Children and Social Services, the City of Toronto and many generous donors and foundations.

The Sherbourne Health Bus has been serving homeless and underhoused clients in Downtown Toronto for over 30 years, making us a leader in the field of mobile health, with a model that has grown to include primary health care, brief case management and harm reduction.

We are presently looking for a Registered Nurse (RN) to join the Sherbourne Health Bus as an integral part of our mobile health team to deliver primary care, brief case management and harm reduction services to homeless and precariously housed individuals with complex mental health and substance use issues in the Downtown East Community. At Sherbourne Health, our Registered Nurses are key members of the interdisciplinary care team and work to their full scope of practice providing primary care and community health services across the lifespan.

Our nurses have taken leadership roles in exciting, multisectoral, partnership‑based community health projects, including community vaccination clinics (for influenza and COVID‑19), specialized HIV clinics for people without immigration status, low‑barrier COVID‑19 testing clinics, and community‑focused cancer screening initiatives. Similar opportunities will be available to the successful candidate for this role.

At Sherbourne Health, we care about our staff and recognize that our biggest strength is our people. We have a solid commitment to life‑long learning which is demonstrated through our professional development program. We invest in collective work and staff training to improve client care. We supplement this by creating a low‑barrier work environment built on equity and respect, while working together in caring, cohesive teams and providing opportunities for advancement.

• A competitive salary.
• Membership in Healthcare Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP).

• Provide primary nursing care, in collaboration with the Health Bus Nurse Practitioner and social supports team, to homeless and underhoused individuals in downtown Toronto.
• Conduct health assessments, focused health history taking and triage for episodic or urgent health concerns.
• Implement therapeutic interventions for preventative health, health maintenance and health restoration that are suitable to clients facing homelessness and precarity.
• Provide health education and health promotion that is responsive to client needs in areas such as preventative care, trans/non‑binary health, sexual health, substance use, harm reduction, and infectious and chronic disease.
• Offer clinical support onsite to our low‑barrier drop‑ins for homeless and underhoused individuals, including WINK (Women in Need Clinic), STASH (harm reduction drop‑in), and our Trans Health Clinic.
• Lead primary care appointments on the health bus that include wound care, footcare, venipuncture, STI testing and treatment, brief supportive mental health and crisis counselling, and episodic health assessments.
• Facilitate client referrals to appropriate internal and external health and social…