Outreach Communicable Disease Control Nurse

Support outreach services in Vancouver as a Communicable Disease Nurse with Vancouver Coastal Health’s interdisciplinary Communicable Disease Control team.

This Registered Nurse role provides follow-up for reportable diseases and STBBIs across community settings, including clients at risk or living with communicable diseases. You will collaborate with Medical Health Officers, health providers, community partners, and VCH programs. The work includes harm reduction, infection control, Indigenous cultural safety, outbreak response, and referrals to primary care services.

• Follow up cases, contacts, and communicable disease outbreaks
• Respond to changing and unexpected outbreak situations
• Liaise with community partners and internal programs
• Provide referrals, counselling, and harm reduction education
• Implement prevention plans and directed prophylaxis access

• Current practicing Registered Nurse registration with BCCNM
• Two years’ recent public health outreach experience
• Ability to assess, diagnose, and treat applicable STIs
• Demonstrated phlebotomy and CPR skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively

Use outreach nursing, outbreak response, phlebotomy, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills serving diverse Vancouver communities.