Nurse B - Addictions

Position #: 204403

Expected Start Date: December 22, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: Addictions Outreach Office

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Addiction Serv Res Care Unit&Trtmt Facil-Adlt Outreach&Target Prev Services

Type: Part-time temporary

Expected Up to Date: October 02, 2026

FTE: 0.64

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work: Per 6 weeks:

• 16 shifts of 8 hours

• 4 shifts of 4 hours

  
  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

  • 1 year experience in a mental health setting.
  • Three (3) years nursing experience

  Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

  Other Education and Training

  • Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
  • Nursing diploma is acceptable

  Competencies 

  • Decision making skills
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Advanced - Demonstrates word processing skills using Microsoft Office programs

  Knowledge and Abilities

  • Knowledge of Motivational Interviewing/Assessment
  • Advanced knowledge of drug abuse and their effects during use and withdrawal
  • Knowledge in Provincial Addiction Clinical Model and DSM-4R
  • Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Demonstrated high degree of accuracy is required of assigned responsibility
  • Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to treat patients with compassion and empathy
  • Knowledge in methadone/methadone assisted recovery
  • Knowledge in mental health and addictions and concurrent medical conditions
  • Knowledge in drugs of abuse and their effects
  • Knowledge in harm reduction in Addictions Medicine
  • Knowledge in Mental Health nursing processes and appropriate interventions
  • Demonstrates empathy, trust and respect in the provision of care
  • Knowledge of the Mental Health Services Act
  • Knowledge Transtheoretical Model of Change

  Other Information

  • Registered/eligible to be registered with RPNAS (Reg Psych Nurses Assoc of Sask)
  • For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
  • Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)