Opportunities

• Main Location: Access Point on Jane (761 Jane Street, Toronto, ON)
• You may be required to work at any other Access Alliance Service Sites

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

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 Degree of Nursing; 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 2SLGBTQI+ 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

Salary: 62,710 – 75,638 / Annual 

Duration: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours/week

Classification: Registered Nurse

Bargaining Unit: United Food and Commercial worker, Local 175     

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 to be fully vaccinated. Proof of Covid-19 vaccination can be obtained from the Ministry site.

With “Registered Nurse” in the subject heading, please send your resume and cover letter by 5:00 pm April 5, 2024 (for Internal Applicants) and April 11, 2024 (for External Applicants):

        by E-mail:           jobs@accessalliance.ca

        by Regular Mail:  Hiring Committee, Registered Nurse