Registered Nurse (RN) – Primary Health Care

Deadline: 2023/03/04

Contract Type: Permanent, Full- Time

Posting Type: Internal & External

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.

We are looking for an experienced and self-directed nurse to be part of the Centre’s Primary Care Team and work within a collaborative clinical practice that includes program planning, implementation and evaluation.  The chosen candidate will be diligent, thoughtful, creative and able to work to full scope of practice in a primary care setting.

Within the RN scope of practice the chosen candidate will function interdependently with other members of the primary health care and programs teams within a health promotion framework. The RN will work to initiate, provide and support primary health care services to newly arrived immigrants and refugees who face multiple and complex health issues. 

Responsibilities:

• Providing comprehensive primary health care to clients of all ages within the full scope of a RN including assessments, counselling, screening, referral, education, treatment and follow up for scheduled appointments, triage/same day urgent care services, and off-site programming and outreach clinics.
• Providing primary health care services support to our MDs and NPs as required
• Initiate and implement health promotion strategies such as health education and community development to support diverse populations and communities to increase control over and improve their health;
• Work with partner organizations and community groups to identify health priorities
• Participating in primary health care program and service delivery within the broader community context in partnerships with other institutions as may be required from time to time; this includes 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;
• Willingness to travel and provide services throughout the City at designated sites, and to work evening and weekend shifts when required/scheduled;

Skills and 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:

• Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• BLS certified
• Bachelor of Nursing Degree; complimentary post-secondary education in public policy considered an asset
• Experience in frontline nursing and implementation of evidence informed practice; More than 3  years nurse experience preferred
• Experience in a community health centre and/or family practice setting preferred. Experience in urgent care or emergency department a plus.
• Thorough familiarity with therapeutic methods and practices based upon a health promotion/disease prevention model;
• Comfortable preforming head to toe clinical assessments and triage
• Thorough understanding of health promotion and community development principles;
• Experience helping clients navigate the health care system and build capacity for self-management
• 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)
• Experience in developing and evaluating client education materials;
• Experience in program development, monitoring and evaluation
• Success in partnership development and funding proposal writing;
• 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, multi-lingual and racialized and LGBTQ communities;
• Demonstrated flexibility to work in a fast paced, ever-changing environment;
• Ability to speak a second language of our priority populations is an asset.

Access Alliance offers comprehensive group benefits coverage, annual vacation entitlement, cumulative sick leave entitlement, employee assistance programs. Access Alliance is a HOOPP employer. 

Please be advised that our organization requires all staff, students, and volunteers must be fully vaccinated. Proof of vaccination can be obtained from the Ministry site.

Salary: $62,089 Annually

Hours: 35 hours/week

Bargaining Unit position: United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 175

Classification: RN

Application Method

With  “Registered Nurse (RN) – Primary Health Care” in the subject heading

please send your resume and cover letter by 5pm, March 4th to:

     by E-mail:            jobs@accessalliance.ca

     by Regular Mail:  Hiring Committee, “Registered Nurse (RN) – HWD”                          

     Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services

     340 College Street, Suite 500, Toronto, ON, M5T 3A9

No phone calls please.

We thank all applicants for their interest but only those selected for an interview will receive acknowledgement. Please note that a criminal background check (Vulnerable sector) will be conducted for this position.

We encourage applications from individuals who reflect the broad diversity of communities we work with, including those from racialized and LGBTQ communities.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Access Alliance encourages a scent-free environment. Employees, students, volunteers, and visitors are asked to refrain from wearing fragrances and other scented personal care products (i.e. perfumes, lotions, hairspray, etc.) while at the Centre. 

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