Registered Nurse

# Summary 

# About the organization 

 Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services (AAMHCS) is a Community Health Centre that aims to provide services and addresses system inequities to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities. The Centre envisions a future in which Toronto’s diverse communities achieve health with dignity. This is an exciting opportunity to work at a CHC and get the global health experience of the population served and the common health issues and system barriers it faces. It is also an amazing opportunity to learn more about various resources available, internal and external to support our clients and build those connections.

# About the position 

 Responsibilities: 

• Providing primary care to clients of all ages within the full RN, scope of practice including screening, assessments, counselling, referral, education, treatment and follow up for scheduled appointments, triage, vaccination, PAP, and occasional off-site programming and outreach clinics if needed.
• Providing clinical support to designated PCPs (MDs and NPs) as required and appropriate.
• Initiate and implement health promotion strategies such as health education and community development to support diverse populations and communities to increase self-management.
• Work with partner organizations and community groups to identify health priorities and solutions.
• Participating in community-based partnerships to build networks and strengthen service delivery which may include advocacy, consultation, evaluation, etc.
• Develop and maintain health information/education resources and displays on relevant topics as required.
• Complete clinical administrative tasks: Order, stock and maintain an adequate inventory of medical and pharmaceutical supplies in the clinical rooms, lab, storage cupboards, treatment/ procedure room. Track and replace expired supplies and monitor the temperature of vaccine refrigerator.
• Participating in all organizational systems and structures as required including but not limited to, quality improvement and case conferences.
• Able to travel and provide services throughout the City at designated sites, and to work evening and weekend shifts when required/scheduled.

# Qualifications

 The ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of and a commitment to the principles and underlying values of community health centers as well as:

Required:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in frontline nursing and implementation of evidence informed practice.

• Bachelor Degree of Nursing.

• Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.

• BLS certified.

• Ability to perform head to toe clinical assessments and triage.

Preferred:

• Experience in a community health centre and/or family practice setting preferred.

• Demonstrated commitment to principles of an anti-oppression and cultural competence framework.

• Demonstrated flexibility to work in a fast paced, ever-changing environment.

• Ability to work collaboratively with physicians, nurse practitioners and the interdisciplinary health care team and independently when necessary.

• Computer literate (word processing, internet, data entry in Windows applications).

• Thorough familiarity with therapeutic methods and practices based upon a health promotion/disease prevention model.

• Thorough understanding of health promotion and community development principles.

• Demonstrated experience in helping clients navigate the health care system and build capacity for self-management.

• Experience in program development, monitoring and evaluation is an asset.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication (written and verbal), problem-solving, organizational and time management skills.

• An interest and commitment to working with low-income, multilingual, multiracial communities.

• Thorough knowledge of broad determinants of health and issues affecting low income, multi-lingual and racialized and 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

Asset:

• Complimentary post-secondary education in public policy.

• Ability to speak a second language of our priority populations.

• Experience in urgent care or emergency department.