Nurse B - Community Mental Health Nurse

Position #: 179309

Expected Start Date: June 23, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: Nurses Alumni Wing

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Connected Community Care - MHAS

Type: Part-time temporary

Expected Up to Date: June 25, 2026

FTE: 0.79

Shift Information: Days, Evenings, Weekends

Hours of Work: 177 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 Community Care team, the Community Mental Health Nurse is an integral member of the interdisciplinary team providing intensive support to older adults (50 years+) with complex health needs 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

• Five years recent experience in community care to clients with mental illness

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Licenses

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (CPR)
• Valid Class 5 driver's license

Other Education and Training

• Psychiatric Nursing diploma is acceptable
• Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing is acceptable
• Workplace Assessment & Violence Education (WAVE)
• Nursing diploma is acceptable
• Professional Assault Response Training (PART)

Competencies

• Basic - Computer skills
• Advanced - Communication skills
• Intermediate - Critical thinking skills
• Advanced - Writing skills
• Intermediate - Organizational skills
• Advanced - Verbal communication skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge in diverse cultures, values and traditions
• Knowledge in counselling practices for concurrent mental health/substance abuse
• Ability to work independently
• Knowledge in community health nursing theory and principles
• Knowledge in applicable Acts
• Ability to work and communicate in a cross cultural setting

Other Information

• 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)
• Recent geriatric nursing experience preferred
• Recent psychiatric nursing experience is preferred
• Registered/eligible with the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Association of SK