Primary Care Clinic Nurse; RN​/RPN​/LPN

Department

Health & Community Services

35 hours per week

From $77,036.00 To $ Annually – based on qualifications and experience

The Helping House provides wholistic, culturally-integrated primary care for Indigenous clients and families. We are a team of interdisciplinary clinicians, including family physician(s), a naturopathic doctor, a nurse practitioner, a traditional Elder and Knowledge Keeper, a wholistic wellness nurse and others, and strive to serve the Tsleil‑Waututh Nation peoples by way of medical oversight, health and wellness services, and cultural healing.

Known as the People of the Inlet, the Tsleil‑Waututh have lived on the unceded lands of the Burrard Inlet since time immemorial. Entrusted by their ancestors as stewards of the land, water, and air, the Tsleil‑Waututh draw on the spirituality and wisdom of their traditional healers and knowledge keepers to fulfill this trust and thereby support the health of their families and communities at large.

By joining our team, you will come to enjoy not only fulfilling working relations with fellow colleagues, but also a meaningful connection with the people we serve, and from whom we continue to have much to learn.

As an integral member of the Primary Care Team, the Primary Care Clinic Nurse (RN/RPN/LPN) delivers effective, culturally safe, and compassionate nursing care for Tsleil‑Waututh Nation community members and families in a team‑based, interdisciplinary model of primary care. By way of care planning, collaboration, and a relational, person and family‑centered approach, the nurse works closely with the family physician(s), the nurse practitioner, the naturopathic doctor, and other team members to address the complex care needs for shared clients, ensuring both continuity of care and integration of health care services over time.

• With cultural humility, fosters care relationships with clients and their self‑identified families and support persons to help establish rapport, trust, and mutual respect
• Using a trauma‑informed approach, promotes a culturally‑safe and therapeutic care environment in support of client advocacy and right to self‑determination
• In conducting initial and ongoing health assessments, helps identify clients’ physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs to ensure a holistic approach to care planning and care provision
• Assesses clients’ functional status and informal support network, and bolsters integrity of supports as needed by way of advocacy, shared care planning, and integration of additional formal supports and resources
• Anticipates medical and functional changes over time, especially in the context of serious illness or chronic disease, and provides avenues for early engagement and conversations with clients and families to ensure care planning is guided by clients’ and families’ goals and values
• Initiates and participates in care conferences with clients, families, interprofessional team members, and service providers to help ensure a coordinated and integrated approach to client care
• Ensures effective communication and collaboration to help support interdisciplinary care planning and team‑based care delivery
• Coming from a client & family‑centered model of care planning, with clients as partners in their care, tailors individualized care plans in consultation with clients, their families, and members of the interdisciplinary care team
• Supports clients’ access to health services and helps clients and families navigate resources and overcome personal and systemic barriers to accessing care and achieving health & wellness
• Effectively addresses systemic barriers to ensure seamless care transitions and continuity of care between acute and community care services, by engaging closely and collaboratively with acute care services to support safe and effective discharge planning
• Administers treatments, medications, and immunizations as prescribed by the physician(s) or nurse practitioner, while monitoring, evaluating and reporting response to treatment
• Assists the physician(s) or nurse practitioner in medical procedures
• Provides clinical nursing…