Job Description

Position # 9009248

Expected Start Date: May 18, 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 temporary

Expected Up to Date: March 30, 2027

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

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

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: No

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

Travel Required: No

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

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

Competencies

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

Knowledge and Abilities

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

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)

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is the largest employer in Saskatchewan, employing more than 45,000 staff in a dynamic healthcare environment. The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is committed to providing coordinated quality services that are seamless, safe and patient-centred.