Nurse B - Community Mental Health Nurse

Position #: 9006578

Expected Start Date: February 2, 2026

Union: SUN

Facility: Mental Health - McKerracher

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: Mental Health Residential Care Unit - Approved Home Enhancements

Type: Casual

FTE: 0

Shift Information: Days

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: No

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Nurse B $42.880 to $53.490

Travel Required: Yes

Job Description: As a member of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Community Mental Health Liaison Nurse is an integral member of a multidisciplinary team that will address the issues of complex clients who have a primary diagnosis of a major mental illness. This position will work closely with the psychiatry inpatient unit and the transition team to provide assistance with clients transitioning from hospital back into the SHA housing partnership community beds. Responsibilities include intensive case management and stabilization, medication management, crisis intervention, counseling, goal planning, establishment of community supports through consultation with community agencies, student mentoring, documentation, and client/family education.

Human Resources Exemption: No

Experience

• Requires a minimum of three years experience in a community or acute mental health setting working with clients with severe and persistent mental illness.
   

Education

• Bachelor of Psychiatric Nursing (BPN)

Licenses

• Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (CPR)

Other Education and Training

• Nursing diploma is acceptable
• Workplace Assessment & Violence Education (WAVE)
• Psychiatric Nursing diploma is acceptable
• Bachelor of Nursing is acceptable

Competencies

• Basic - Computer skills
• Basic - Interpersonal skills
• Advanced - Organizational skills
• Advanced - Communication skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge in applicable Acts
• Ability to be flexible and willing to change

Other Information

• For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
• Travel required
• Valid driver's license, where required
• Registered/eligible with the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Association of SK
• Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)