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Full Time or Part Time Advanced Practice Provider (APP) - Nurse Practitioner position in Kitchener, ON.

We are looking to bring on a Full Time or Part Time NP to join our Family Medicine Office located in Kitchener, Ontario!

We are a well-established Outpatient Family Medicine Practice that specializes in treating Adult patients.

Full Time or Part Time Position is Available!

We offer flexibility with our schedule!

Practice Hours are: Monday - Friday: 8am - 5pm

Closed on the weekends!

Our Compensation is: $60 - $5 per hour + 5K Sign On Bonus + Full Benefit Package!

Requirements

Board Certified Nurse Practitioner.

Active/Eligible Ontario NP license.

1 year or more of previous Family Medicine experience is preferred but not required.

New Grads OK!

Benefits

Full Benefit Package including Medical, Dental, Vacation, PTO, 401K Plan, Etc.

Job Description

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Full Time or Part Time Advanced Practice Provider (APP) - Nurse Practitioner position in Edmonton, AB.

We are looking to bring on a Full Time or Part Time NP to join our Family Medicine Office located in Edmonton, Alberta!

We are a well-established Outpatient Family Medicine Practice that specializes in treating Adult patients.

Full Time or Part Time Position is Available!

We offer flexibility with our schedule!

Practice Hours are: Monday - Friday: 8am - 5pm

Closed on the weekends!

Our Compensation is: $50 - $60 per hour + Full Benefit Package!

Requirements

Board Certified Nurse Practitioner.

Active/Eligible Alberta NP license.

1 year or more of previous Family Medicine experience is preferred but not required.

New Grads OK!

Benefits

Full Benefit Package including Medical, Dental, Vacation, PTO, 401K Plan, Etc.

Full Time or Part Time Advanced Practice Provider (APP) - Nurse Practitioner position in Edmonton, AB. We are looking to bring on a Full Time or Part Time NP to join our Family Medicine Office located in Edmonton, Alberta! We are a well-established Outpatient Family Medicine Practice that specializes in treating Adult patients. Full Time or Part Time Position is Available! We offer flexibility with our schedule! Practice Hours are: Monday - Friday: 8am - 5pmClosed on the weekends! Our Compensation is: $50 - $60 per hour + Full Benefit Package!RequirementsBoard Certified Nurse Practitioner. Active/Eligible Alberta NP license.1 year or more of previous Family Medicine experience is preferred but not required.New Grads OK!BenefitsFull Benefit Package including Medical, Dental, Vacation, PTO, 401K Plan, Etc.

Full Time or Part Time Advanced Practice Provider (APP) - Nurse Practitioner position in Surrey, BC. We are looking to bring on a Full Time or Part Time NP to join our Family Medicine Office located in Surrey, British Columbia! We are a well-established Outpatient Family Medicine Practice that specializes in treating Adult patients. Full Time or Part Time Position is Available! We offer flexibility with our schedule! Practice Hours are: Monday - Friday: 8am - 4pm or 9am – 3pmClosed on the weekends! Our Compensation is: $60 - $85 per hour + Full Benefit Package!RequirementsBoard Certified Nurse Practitioner. Active/Eligible British Columbia NP license.1 year or more of previous Family Medicine experience is preferred but not required.New Grads OK!BenefitsFull Benefit Package including Medical, Dental, Vacation, PTO, 401K Plan, Etc.

Full Time or Part Time Advanced Practice Provider (APP) - Nurse Practitioner position in Kitchener, ON. We are looking to bring on a Full Time or Part Time NP to join our Family Medicine Office located in Kitchener, Ontario! We are a well-established Outpatient Family Medicine Practice that specializes in treating Adult patients. Full Time or Part Time Position is Available! We offer flexibility with our schedule! Practice Hours are: Monday - Friday: 8am - 5pmClosed on the weekends!Our Compensation is: $60 - $5 per hour + 5K Sign On Bonus + Full Benefit Package!RequirementsBoard Certified Nurse Practitioner. Active/Eligible Ontario NP license.1 year or more of previous Family Medicine experience is preferred but not required.New Grads OK!BenefitsFull Benefit Package including Medical, Dental, Vacation, PTO, 401K Plan, Etc.

*About the Company*:

Located in the beautiful territory of Snaw-naw-as First Nation, Orca Lelum is committed to fostering a safe and nurturing environment rooted in Indigenous ways of being. Dedicated to the well-being of youth, we empower individuals aged 12 to 18 to reclaim their strength, resilience, and cultural identity. Guided by the principle of Nutsamaat Shqwaluwun – people working together with one heart and one mind, our holistic programs prioritize substance use recovery, wellness and trauma healing. We offer medically supervised withdrawal management and residential treatment in a 10-week program, aiming to instill a sense of purpose and connection that extends beyond treatment.

*What’s in it for you?*

Join us at Orca Lelum, where you not only contribute to a thriving organization but also become part of a community-driven by cultural values and a shared commitment to making a positive impact. Come experience the fulfillment of working in a First Nations-led environment that values your well-being and growth. Additionally, you get:

o An excellent benefits and pension program for eligible employees;

o Paid vacation days and wellness days for eligible employees;

o Comprehensive training and professional development provided.

*Job Summary*:

This role requires a Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN) or Registered Nurse (RN) with specialized mental health expertise, particularly in community and Indigenous settings. The nurse will serve as the primary intake coordinator at Orca Lelum, providing a therapeutic, trauma-informed approach to care. In addition to intake coordination, the nurse will provide ongoing therapeutic support for youth participating in stabilization, substance withdrawal (detox), and wellness programs, ensuring continuity of care throughout their stay.

*Job Duties and Responsibilities:*

1. Assessment and Care Planning

* Conduct initial screenings and assessments to determine applicants' needs, acuity, eligibility, and appropriateness for services.
* Gather relevant information, such as medical history, goals, strengths, family history, community involvement, and judicial involvement.
* Begin care planning for each applicant based on the information gathered, incorporating cultural and community aspects to honor each young spirit’s Indigenous background.
* Provide ongoing therapeutic support and clinical nursing care for youth throughout their participation in the stabilization, substance withdrawal (detox), and wellness programs.

2. Therapeutic Support for Stabilization, Detox, and Wellness Programs

* Provide direct nursing care for youth participating in the stabilization and detox programs, managing withdrawal symptoms and offering emotional and psychological support.
* Be available for ongoing therapeutic support throughout the wellness program, addressing mental health needs, promoting coping strategies, and guiding the youth through their healing journey.
* Collaborate with the wellness team to ensure each youth's physical, mental, and emotional needs are met during their stay.

3. Documentation and Reporting

* Complete and maintain accurate intake forms, supporting documents, and enrollment packages.
* Ensure all applicant and patient information is securely stored in the AMIS system, maintaining confidentiality.
* Track and manage documentation throughout the intake, stabilization, detox, and discharge processes.
* Prepare and submit reports on intake and therapeutic support activities as required.

4. Coordination and Referrals

* Liaise with internal teams and external agencies to schedule and coordinate intake interviews.
* Collaborate closely with healthcare professionals, social workers, and other team members to ensure seamless transitions into the Wellness Program.
* Refer young spirits to appropriate services or resources, and provide relevant information to ensure a smooth intake and treatment process.
* Work with community resources to complete assessments and make referrals when necessary.

5. Clinical Services and Therapeutic Support

* Provide therapeutic support, including mental health assessments and counseling.
* Offer clinical nursing care, managing substance withdrawal symptoms and providing ongoing support throughout each youth's stay.
* Contribute to care planning, wellness assessments, and acuity assessments.

6. Cultural Competency and Trauma-Informed Care

* Understand and respect each young spirit’s values, attitudes, and cultural practices, integrating these into care planning.
* Demonstrate active listening, empathy, and cultural sensitivity when interacting with youth, families, and communities.
* Utilize a decolonial, trauma-informed approach to care, with an awareness of the impacts of intergenerational trauma.

*Qualifications & Requirements:*

* Must be registered as a nurse (or psychiatric nurse) in British Columbia.
* Experience in mental health, substance use management, and community care.
* Experience providing therapeutic support and counseling.
* Consent to a criminal record check and prior contact check.
* Proficiency with standard computer applications and database systems (AMIS).
* Ability to handle crisis situations, work under pressure, and practice sound judgment.
* Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

*Skills & Attributes:*

* Experience integrating nursing, therapy, and community collaboration skills.
* Working with Indigenous communities is an asset.
* Knowledge of the impacts of intergenerational trauma.
* Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Proficiency with office software and clinical databases.
* Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and confidentiality.

Job Type: Casual

Pay: $54.41-$59.20 per hour

Expected hours: 10 – 20 per week

Benefits:
* Casual dress
* Company pension
* Dental care
* Extended health care
* On-site parking
* Paid time off
* RRSP match
* Vision care
* Wellness program

Work Location: In person


Application deadline: 2025-08-22
Expected start date: 2025-09-08

*Community Health Nurse RN - Primary Health Care contract, Sept. 2025 to Apr. 2026 full-time (35 hrs. per week) $66,647 to $8,952 per annum (salary commensurate on primary care experience)*

*About Unison Health and Community Services: *

Unison Health and Community Services is a non-profit, community-based organization that serves neighbourhoods in North West Toronto. Operating out of six locations, Unison offers core services that include primary health care, counselling, health promotion, Early Years programs, legal services, harm reduction programs, housing assistance, adult protective services, Pathways to Education™ and a Diabetes Education Program. Unison’s mission is working together to deliver accessible and high-quality health and community services that are integrated, respond to needs, build on strengths and inspire change.

Unison Health and Community Services is committed to working from an inclusive, pro-choice, sex positive, harm reduction, anti-racist, anti-oppression and participatory framework.

We are seeking a candidate for the position of Community Health Nurse to join the Primary Health Care team working at our Keele-Rogers site. The ideal candidate for this position will have a strong background in clinical primary care, experience in health teaching, advocacy and health promotion.

*Job-Specific Responsibilities:*

· Provision of individual primary care including wellness assessments across the lifespan, immunization, chronic disease monitoring, triage, counselling, advocacy and care of minor episodic illnesses

· Health teaching to individuals

· Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team

· Participation in team meetings and centre-wide initiatives

· Performance of administrative tasks

*Job-Specific Qualifications:*

· Licensed as a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario with no restrictions to practice

· Baccalaureate degree or equivalent experience

· Strong clinical assessment skills

· Strong documentation and communication skills

· Ability to speak a second language is an asset

· Sensitivity to the impact of social health determinants on a diverse, urban, low-income community

· Sensitivity to and knowledge of the needs of a multicultural, multiracial community

· Experience serving Unison’s priority populations (people with mental health and addictions, seniors with complex needs, LGBTQ2IA+, and youth facing barriers)

· Current RNAO membership with malpractice coverage is an asset

· Availability for one evening shift per week on Thursdays

Interested candidates are asked to email a résumé with covering letter by Friday, August 22, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. to:

Hiring Committee – Community Health Nurse, RN

Unison Health and Community Services



_*Please cite UN_2025_026 in the subject line of the email.*_

We welcome applications from people who are reflective of the diverse communities we serve, including those who might need accommodation.

Where needed, accommodations for applicants with disabilities will be provided, on request, to support their participation in all aspects of the recruitment process.

Please note that due to the volume of applications, only those applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 7 months

Pay: $66,647.00-$78,952.00 per year

Benefits:
* Paid time off

Work Location: In person

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Benefits/Perks

• Shifts ranging anywhere from 1 hours up to 12 hours
• Flexible working hours - Select your own shifts
• PPE provided (Personal protective equipment)
• Competitive Wages
• Referral bonuses
• Continuing education programs
• Ongoing shifts in order to build close relationships with our clients
• Making a difference in the lives of those dealing with medical illnesses and age-related complications

Company Overview
Qualicare Homecare is looking for compassionate, caring, and reliable individuals to join our family as RNs. Qualicare location offers home care services that focus on providing the best quality of life for our clients and peace of mind for their families.

Job Summary
The RN is responsible for the quality; adequacy of services provided and may, where required, supervise staff. The RN is responsible for ensuring that care is delivered appropriately and the standards of quality are adhered to.

The RN is responsible for working with other medical disciplines (i.e., PT, OT, SLP) to ensure coordinated services and that all of the clients needs are identified through the assessment process and addressed through the implementation of the Plan of Care and re-evaluation and supervisory process.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care
• Provides accurate, detailed, and timely documentation
• Conducts ongoing assessments
• Prepares, administers and appropriately documents actions taken specific to medications
• Performs all skills, treatments, and procedures competently in accordance with the provincial scope of practice
• Follows principles of infection control and Universal Precautions

Qualifications

• Current certificate of competence and good standing
• Certified in CPR
• Strong clinical skills
• Negative TB test or chest x-ray
• Self-directing with the ability to work with little direct supervision
• Excellent customer service skills

***PART-TIME & FULL-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE***

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Role

The Registered Nurse–ACT delivers comprehensive medical and health promotion services to clients of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program. Working within a health promotion framework and in accordance with the scope of practice defined by the College of Nurses of Ontario, the nurse provides both mental and physical health care. As an integral member of the multidisciplinary ACT team, the RN–ACT also offers counselling, rehabilitation and recovery support, crisis intervention, long-term support, and client advocacy. The role involves active participation in the planning, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement of ACT services. A significant portion of client engagement takes place independently in community settings

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

Program-Related Activities

Works within the College of Nurses of Ontario standards.

• Acts in a consultation and education role to other ACT Team members and community partners as it relates to mental health/pharmacological and physical care issues within the scope of nursing practice.
• Directs intervention with order/medication administration.
• Provides solution-focused, motivational and cognitive-behavioural counselling to enhance client capacity to attain goals.
• Provides direct assistance to clients with:
  • Symptom management including medication delivery, observation, follow-up and the development of individualized crisis plans, distress tolerance and coping strategies.
  • Instrumental functioning for employment, education, finances, basic needs, activities of daily living, social/recreation activities, transportation etc.
  • Housing related issues including liaising with housing providers, landlords and support with Landlord Tenant Board processes.
• Provides support to clients in achieving physical healthcare needs.
• Provides independent visits and crisis counselling to monitor and support acutely ill clients during on-call, weekend and evening hours.
• Provides impromptu family counselling sessions to address family conflict/crisis and conduct formal family counselling sessions in conjunction with team psychiatrist.
• Conduct comprehensive client assessments using discipline-specific and multidisciplinary assessment instruments.
• Develops individualized client rehabilitation/recovery plans and revise as indicated.
• Collaborates with the team psychiatrist, police, and psychiatric emergency services to coordinate client apprehensions under the Ontario Mental Health Act.
• Provides mandated monitoring and interventions to clients who are under legal conditions of Community Treatment Orders (CTO) and Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) - Ontario Review Board jurisdiction, in addition to supporting clients to meet other legal stipulations (i.e. parole, probation).
• Leads/co-leads psycho-education groups/classes for ACTT clients and their family members.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing from a recognized university or combination of nursing diploma and additional relevant courses/training.
• Good standing in and valid license from the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• Additional training in the field of community mental health (such as psychiatric nursing certificate)
• Additional training in a psychiatric rehabilitation/recovery -based model is an asset.

Professional Experience

• Three to five years full-time relevant nursing experience in a community setting or combination of community and hospital or public health settings; experience in a primary care setting, an asset.
• Experience in a combination of hospital and community settings and/or public health.
• Experience in providing rehabilitation and support functions to mental health clients and assisting in activities of daily living.
• Experience in applying principles of psychosocial rehabilitation/recovery, practices of case coordination and working in transdisciplinary teams with mental health professionals.
• Familiarity with the Ontario Mental Health Act is an asset.
• Experience and interest in working with marginalized and diverse clientele, such as low-income, high-needs, newcomer, and a variety of multicultural communities.

Key Competencies

• Thorough knowledge of and proficiency in current nursing physical assessment and treatment methods, case management, and crisis intervention techniques.
• Thorough knowledge and understanding of community resources, relevant city service-provider networks, and community-based health care.
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with a harm reduction approach.
• Ability to maintain mature problem-solving attitude when dealing with acutely ill, intoxicated, suicidal, angry or hostile clients and hazardous working conditions (i.e. exposure to communicable diseases, pest infestations, body fluids, second-hand smoke and high-risk drug paraphernalia).
• Ability to to work with minimal supervision in a high stress environment
• Demonstrated skills in verbal communication with clients and their families and written skills for documentation purposes.
• Excellent issue management skills including time management, conflict management and resolution, problem-solving, prioritizing and multi-tasking.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a crisis situation.

Linguistic Profile

• This position falls within Carlington CHC’s designation under the French Language Services Act of Ontario.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Fluency in French is recommended at Level (Advanced +) for oral expression/comprehension and Level (Intermediate) for written expression.
• Fluency in another language relevant to our client population is an asset.

Personal Suitability

• Sensitivity to the needs of marginalized and diverse clientele.
• Commitment to health promotion concepts, strategies, and philosophy.
• Commitment to community-based health care and social services, and strength-based philosophy and practices.
• Strong commitment to and belief in a recovery-model client-centred practice.
• Non-judgmental attitude.
• Commitment to the team.
• Ability to establish supportive and trusting relationships with persons with mental illness.
• Personal experience as a consumer of mental health services or family involvement of mental health services would be considered an asset.

Other

• Availability to work regular evening and weekend shifts, and to be available for on-call status.
• Valid driver’s license and regular access to a vehicle.