Nurse Practitioner

The Role and Opportunity The Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner plays a key role in providing comprehensive primary health care services to individuals accessing care through the CMHA Nurse Practitioner Clinic. Services are delivered in the clinic setting and, when required, in the community. The Nurse Practitioner provides holistic, client-centred care through health assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up across the lifespan.

The role also includes health promotion, chronic disease management, collaboration with inter-professional team members, and participation in program development and quality improvement activities.

This 0.5 FTE position offers flexibility in scheduling, making it an excellent opportunity for candidates seeking to balance other professional, academic, or personal commitments.

Salary : $59.24 per hour – $68.99 per hour

Hours of Work: 20 per week

Location : 700 Lawrence Ave West, North York

CMHA Toronto is the city’s leading community mental health agency. We provide accessible, quality care for Toronto residents through programs, research and advocacy that create belonging and hope. At CMHA Toronto, we take a client-first, recovery-oriented approach to supporting people and their families when they experience mental health challenges or live with mental illness. By integrating health and social care, we provide services that aid in long-term wellness including housing, employment, community connections and so much more.

Our goal? Help everyone thrive in the community.

• Conduct comprehensive health assessments, develop care plans, and provide ongoing primary health care to clients across the lifespan.
• Diagnose, treat, and monitor acute and chronic health conditions within the Nurse Practitioner scope of practice.
• Prescribe medications, order and interpret diagnostic tests, and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
• Provide health promotion, disease prevention, chronic disease management, and wellness education to clients and families.
• Coordinate care and facilitate referrals with physicians, specialists, hospitals, community agencies, and other healthcare providers.
• Support clients in accessing health, social, and community resources that promote overall well-being.
• Provide education and support to families, caregivers, and substitute decision-makers regarding treatment, health conditions, and available resources.
• Collaborate with inter-professional team members to deliver integrated, client-centred care and improve health outcomes.
• Contribute to program development, clinical education, mentorship, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice initiatives.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation and ensure compliance with professional, organizational, and regulatory standards.

BScN Degree and Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario and NPAO

• Experience in providing counselling to clients around issues related to medications and their effects
• Minimum 5 years of related clinical practice in community mental health and primary health care setting.
• Experience providing a consultative/educative service from a nursing perspective to other service providers and other community agency staff

• This role is expected to demonstrate competencies aligned with CMHA Toronto’s framework, including self ‑ awareness , collaborative leadership, client ‑ centred focus, innovation and forward thinking, solutions and results orientation, and strong ethics and judgment.
• Demonstrated knowledge or the CNO Standards of Practice and the NP’s expanded scope of practice, based on legislative authority
• Demonstrated…