The Canadian Mental Health York Region and South Simcoe branch (CMHA-YRSS) is continuing to provide much-needed mental health services. As an organization, we are protecting our staff through supporting either working from home, or physical distancing, and other public health directives for essential services staff working on-site. Rest assured that your well-being is our top priority and we have appropriate health and safety measures in place at each stage of the recruiting process and throughout our operations.
We are looking for a Registered Practical Nurse in our Gender Affirming Health Clinic!
Closing Date: May 31, 2021
Contract: 21 hours per week until March 31, 2022. Some evening and weekends hours may be required
Competition #: 2021-030
Location: In accordance with current public health directives, training will be available both remotely (i.e., via teleconference and videoconferencing technologies) as well as onsite while respecting physical distancing.
During the current COVID-19 outbreak, work can be completed primarily from home with equipment provided by CMHA, with the exception of client injections that occur at our Aurora and Vaughan offices regularly. Once public health directives are lifted, the Registered Practical Nurse will be working from any of our office locations and will be required to travel within York Region & South Simcoe.
Job Profile:
The Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) builds relationships with and conducts outreach to Family Health Teams, community health centers, primary health care providers and trans and gender diverse-serving organizations to build program capacity and encourage others to provide gender affirming care.
The RPN explores and develops training curriculum; and facilitates and delivers training to external agency contacts.
The RPN also works in the Gender Affirming Health Clinic with clients ages 16 years of age and older who identify as trans, gender diverse, non-binary and/or questioning.
In collaboration with the GAHC team, the RPN supports clinic operations through the administration of client injections, waitlist management, attending team meetings, educating clients and family members about hormones, completing brief physical assessments and monitoring, and providing referrals to community resources.
In addition to compliance with all organizational policies and procedures, the incumbent is also expected to behave ethically, demonstrate competence in effective communication and team building in a collaborative environment and demonstrate confidence in decision-making and in building relationships.
Requirements:
- Licensed Registered Practical Nurse (Dipl. N.)
- Member in good standing with the Ontario College of Nurses; cannot be in the qualifying stages
- Four or more years of experience as an RPN, preferably in a mental health setting
- Excellent health assessment skills, sound clinical judgment and diagnostic skills
- Experience providing culturally competent and gender affirming care to trans and gender diverse populations with complex health needs.
- Experience doing outreach and building strong partnerships with community health centers and family health teams and other community resources
- Experience with public speaking, developing training curriculum and facilitation
- Knowledge of and experience with provision of injections and hormone replacement therapy
- A second language (French, Cantonese, Mandarin, Farsi, Italian, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Tamil, Urdu, French) is preferred
- Lived experience as member of or strong ally of the 2SLGBTQ community is an asset
- Knowledge of the Ontario Mental Health Act, mental health reform principles, the Substitute Decisions Act, the Health Care Consent Act and PHIPA requirements
- Ability to apply Recovery principles and empowerment oriented philosophies and practices in work with clients
- A valid Canadian driver’s license, a minimum $1,000,000 third party liability insurance and proof that insurance covers use of personal vehicle to transport clients
- A satisfactory Vulnerable Sector Screening (Police Check)
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by an individual assigned to the job. This information is not constructed to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel in the job.
This position reports to and is supervised by the Manager, People & Teams, Gender Affirming Health Clinic.
Working Conditions: Office work, community settings, meetings in clients’ home and travel with clients.
Disclaimer: In keeping with mental health reform, best practices, funding and direction this position may later require knowledge, skills, abilities and working conditions not noted here.
Why work for CMHA York Region?
We are a team committed to our vision of mental health support for all. That means we respect that our clients are the experts in their recovery journey and that our role is to provide support, resources and opportunities based on their hopes and dreams. It means that we foster and encourage an entrepreneurial spirit to create, implement, and sustain innovative, evidence-based and transformational impact. We seek out and build partnerships, collaborate and share knowledge to be the most culturally competent team and fully integrated service delivery partner.
Our team cares for each other. We have our own team values of trust, respect, teamwork and communication. We have been a National Non-Profit Employer of Choice for six consecutive years as well as a recipient of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures & Forbes “Canada’s Best Employers 2021”.
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