FT Registered Nurse (RN)

Status:                      Full-time Contract, until October 2026

Location:                 Muncey, ON

Hours:                      35 hours/week

Wage:                        $79,672 to $99,500 per year

Paid Time Off:       3 weeks’ vacation, 12 health & 3 personal days, 5 spiritual/cultural days, professional development and your birthday off

Pension:                  HOOPP (defined benefit plan)- optional

Posting Date:         August 28, 2025

Deadline:                September 10, 2025

Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (SOAHAC) is a diverse, dynamic, multiservice Indigenous health and wellness agency. We strive to provide quality, wholistic health services by sharing and promoting traditional and western health practices to enable people to live in a more balanced state of well-being. SOAHAC provides services to Indigenous people including those who live on and off reserve, status, non-status, Inuit, and Metis within the Southwest, Waterloo-Wellington and Erie St Clair regions.  SOAHAC has a mandate of ensuring that health services are accessible, of high quality, and are culturally appropriate. It is SOAHAC’s objective to build health care capacity within Indigenous communities.  Currently, we are seeking the services of a Registered Nurse (RN) to join our interdisciplinary staff team, working at our Chippewa site in Muncey, Ontario. This is a temporary full-time contract to cover a parental leave, expected duration 12 months.

Reporting to the Integrated Care Manager at our Chippewa site, the Registered Nurse will facilitate the development, implementation, and adaptation of a care plan, deliver direct care, and provide case management to assist clients to manage their own care and navigate through the various services available within the community and hospital settings.  The Registered Nurse will work in partnership with the client and family to establish goals that are safe, realistic, and reasonable by assessing, planning, coordinating, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and supporting transitions with other services for the client in collaboration with the primary care provider, and other integrated team members.  This position may be expected to travel regularly within surrounding First Nations communities and/or Wellington Waterloo area as required. In addition, they may be required to support other SOAHAC sites in order to meet SOAHAC’s operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct nursing care and health education to clients and families
• Recognize the importance of Indigenous cultural identity as part of a healthy, balanced lifestyle for individuals within a community
• Maintain accurate client health records and fulfill reporting requirements
• Provide telephone triage and advice to clients to assist them in making timely medical decisions
• Deliver health promotion, prevention and education programs from start to finish and often independently
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and plans of care for assigned clients and their families that are developed collaboratively based on their unique needs. Plans of care will include both short term and long-term care requirements that address physical, mental, social, spiritual and emotional needs
• Explore, understand and develop a strong network of social care supports including optimizing the client’s informal supports
• Advocate for services that promote, and protect the health and well being of individuals, families, groups and community
• Support clients and their families to develop self-care strategies, anticipate and address health issues, as well as optimize their health through effective health promotion strategies. This may include developing individual and/or group-based programs
• Work in partnership with other programs and organizations to develop health promotion, chronic disease management, palliative care and mental health support strategies
• Advocate for and uses culturally relevant and appropriate approaches when building relationships and providing nursing services
• Understand and respects cultural principles and protocols and applies this understanding in work situations
• Use evidence and research to influence health policies, programs and practices and synthesizes nursing and health knowledge from a broad range of theories, models and frameworks to address the health status of populations, inequities in health, determinants of health, strategies for health promotion, disease and injury prevention, health protection, case management, as well as the factors that influence the delivery and use of nursing and health services
• Involve individuals, families, groups, and communities as active partners to take action to address health inequities and foster a self management care approach for chronic conditions
• Build capacity, improves performance and enhances the quality of the working environment by sharing knowledge, expertise, and experience with colleagues, students
• A significant part of the RN role includes addressing issues related to social determinants of health that may act as barriers to wellness. This means assisting the family link and successfully engage with community and governmental supports to address issues such as social supports, housing, income and safety