Nurse B - Addictions

Position #: 9009248
Expected Start Date: June 29, 2026
Union: SUN
Facility: Addictions Outreach Office
City/Town: Saskatoon
Department: Addiction Serv Res Care Unit&Trtmt Facil-Adlt Outreach&Target Prev Services
Type: Full-time regular
FTE: 1
Shift Information: Days
Number of Hours per Rotation: 14 shifts of 8 hours per 3 weeks
Relief: No
Float: No
Hours of Work: Standard Hours
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

• 1 year experience in a mental health setting.
• Three (3) years nursing experience

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Other Education and Training

• Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
• Nursing diploma is acceptable

Competencies

• Decision making skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Advanced - Demonstrates word processing skills using Microsoft Office programs

Knowledge and Abilities

• Demonstrates empathy, trust and respect in the provision of care
• Advanced knowledge of drug abuse and their effects during use and withdrawal
• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge in Mental Health nursing processes and appropriate interventions
• Knowledge in harm reduction in Addictions Medicine
• Knowledge Transtheoretical Model of Change
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge in methadone/methadone assisted recovery
• Knowledge in Provincial Addiction Clinical Model and DSM-4R
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Services Act
• Knowledge in drugs of abuse and their effects
• Knowledge in mental health and addictions and concurrent medical conditions
• Knowledge of Motivational Interviewing/Assessment
• Ability to treat patients with compassion and empathy
• Demonstrated high degree of accuracy is required of assigned responsibility

Other Information

• Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)
• For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
• Registered/eligible to be registered with RPNAS (Reg Psych Nurses Assoc of Sask)