Community Mental Health Nurse

Position #: 9001399

Expected Start Date: October 06, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: Idylwyld Centre

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Intermediate Care Services

Type: Full-time temporary

Expected Up to Date: October 02, 2026

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days, Evenings, Weekends

Hours of Work: 28 shifts of 8 hours per 6 weeks

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: No

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Nurse B $42.040 to $52.440

Travel Required: Yes

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience

• Experience with Adult education to staff/clients/patients/residents
• Experience and demonstrated empathy in working with marginalized population
• Five years recent experience in community care to clients with mental illness

Education

• Clinical specialization appropriate to the practise is required

Licenses

• Registered Nurse (RN)
• Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN)
• Valid Class 5 driver's license

Other Education and Training

• Experience working in an interdisciplinary team environment an asset
• Experience and demonstrated empathy in working with the aged population an asset
• Experience in quality monitoring and evaluation an asset
• Experience in program planning and evaluation an asset
• Experience with Adult education to other care providers an asset
• Experience working with seniors and or adults with complex issues an asset

Competencies

• Decision making skills
• Communication skills to provide/obtain verbal and/or written opinions/advice
• Critical thinking skills
• Advanced Clinical Assessment skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge of common conditions of seniors/adults that have effect on MH
• Understanding of nursing process and interventions for seniors with MH issues
• Knowledge in applicable principles of nursing process and interventions
• Knowledge of Delirium,Depression and Dementia:presentation, causes and treatment
• Knowledge of concurrent disorders in seniors
• Knowledge of treatment and effects of acute and post withdrawal
• Ability to develop a monitoring program to assess and improve quality of care
• Ability to maintain good working relationships with the general public
• Knowledge of the mental illnesses affecting seniors and adults
• Knowledge of related effects of ageing on mental health in seniors
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to assume responsibility and work independently
• Demonstrated ability to integrate research based theory into practice
• Knowledge of substance abuse and the effects
• Ability to maintain harmonious working relationships. 
• Demonstrates empathy, trust and respect in the provision of care
• Knowledge of differences in treatment of mental illness in seniors from adults
• Working understanding of the Mental Health Services Act and related legislation