Position #: 9000846
Expected Start Date: July 14, 2025
Union: SUN
Facility: Addictions Outreach Office
City/Town: Saskatoon
Department: Addiction Serv Res Care Unit & Trtmt Facil-Adlt Outreach & Target Prev Services
Type: Full-time temporary
Expected Up to Date: August 30, 2026
FTE: 1
Shift Information: Days
Hours of Work: 224 hours per 6 weeks
Relief: No
Float: No
Field Hours: Yes
Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Nurse B $42.040 to $52.440
Travel Required: No
Job Description: As a member of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Community Mental Health Nurse is an integral member of the multidisciplinary team providing intensive case management to individuals with chronic and persistent mental illness. These services are provided within an individual and group context. Responsibilities include intensive case management, medication management, crisis intervention, counselling, goal planning, consultation to community agencies, group/community education, student mentoring, documentation, client/family and public education, advocacy, and mental health promotion.
Human Resources Exemption: No
Experience
3 years experience in a community or acute mental health setting
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)
Other Education and Training
Nursing diploma is acceptable
Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
Competencies
Advanced - Demonstrates word processing skills using Microsoft Office programs
Critical thinking skills
Decision making skills
Knowledge and Abilities
Knowledge in mental health and addictions and concurrent medical conditions
Knowledge in methadone/methadone assisted recovery
Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills.
Knowledge of the Mental Health Services Act
Ability to treat patients with compassion and empathy
Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
Demonstrated high degree of accuracy is required of assigned responsibility
Knowledge of Motivational Interviewing/Assessment
Knowledge Transtheoretical Model of Change
Knowledge in Provincial Addiction Clinical Model and DSM-4R
Advanced knowledge of drug abuse and their effects during use and withdrawal
Demonstrates empathy, trust and respect in the provision of care
Knowledge in harm reduction in Addictions Medicine
Knowledge in Mental Health nursing processes and appropriate interventions
Knowledge in drugs of abuse and their effects
Other Information
Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)
For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
