FT Registered Practical Nurse (RPN)

Status:                      Full-time, permanent

Location:                 Newbury, ON

Hours:                      35 hours/week (Monday to Friday)

Salary:                      $51,078 to $63,847

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

Benefits:                  Comprehensive health, dental, life insurance and more

Pension:                  HOOPP (defined benefit plan)

Posting Date:         December 17, 2025

Deadline:                January 8, 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 Practical Nurse to join our interdisciplinary staff team to work at our Newbury site.

Reporting to the Integrated Care Manager, the Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) supports the primary care providers in the provision of comprehensive primary care and preventative services to urban Indigenous clients across the lifespan. The RPN will support the primary care providers by conducting assessments and physical examinations, administering immunizations and other injections, performing venipuncture, wound care, and any other nursing related duties that may be requested within the RPN scope of practice.

Responsibilities

• Assists with direct client care procedures and related tasks such as: checks in clients, obtains history, vital signs, updates and prepares charts, screens for preventative care, and assists with medical examination/minor procedures
• Conducts intake appointments with new SOAHAC clients ensuring that a wholistic process is followed
• Advocates on behalf of the client with regards to equitable access to traditional healing and western health services as directed by client
• Performs specialized procedures, such as obtaining and processing lab specimens
• Maintains database/registry of client’s eligible/due for cancer screening, diabetes care, and immunizations by use of EMR reports. Must be familiar with the Canadian Diabetes Association guidelines, Cancer Care Ontario screening guidelines, and the publicly funded immunization     schedule for Ontario.
• Accepts telephone calls from clients at nursing station/office, triages concern and takes appropriate action, i.e. provides telephone support, books client in with provider, or expedites call to provider
• Contacts clients via telephone to discuss results as needed and make arrangement for appropriate follow up, at the direction of the Physician/Nurse Practitioner
• Reviews, maintains, and orders immunizations and medical supplies on a weekly basis or as needed.
• Commitment to continuous professional development and continuing education
• Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision
• Recent satisfactory attendance and performance record
• Advocates and supports a culture of client safety and demonstrates an understanding of how the department service and assigned responsibilities contribute to overall client safety at SOAHAC.
• Routinely participates in staff meetings