Nurse B - Community Mental Health Nurse

Position #: 117713

Expected Start Date: May 26, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: MHAS Community Recovery Adult Services

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Mental Health Home Health

Type: Full-time regular

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work: 14 shifts of 8 hours per 3 weeks

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: Yes

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

Travel Required: Yes

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

• Min. five years recent experience in a community or acute mental health setting
• Min. five years working with clients with severe & persistent mental illness

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Licenses

• Valid Class 5 driver's license
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (CPR)
• Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)

Other Education and Training

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

Competencies

• Advanced - Organizational skills
• Basic - Computer skills
• Advanced - Interpersonal skills
• Basic - Presentation skills
• Advanced - Facilitation skills
• Advanced - Change management skills
• Advanced - Communication skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge in developing policies, procedures and standards
• Ability to be flexible and willing to change
• Ability to work and communicate in a cross cultural setting
• Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to work independently

Other Information

• 1st preference given to staff of fSaskatoon HR employees and its affiliates
• Must possess a valid driver's license and have a vehicle available for work.
• Travel within the region and provincially
• Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)
• Provincial posting open to SUN members - SUN/SAHO CBA Articles 27.02 and 27.05
• For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
• Registered/eligible with the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Association of SK