MOSH Registered Nurse - Casual (External)

North End Community Health Centre; Halifax; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

North End Community Health Centre is seeking an experienced MOSH Nurse to join the Mobile Outreach Street Health team. The role delivers primary care to people experiencing homelessness and supports harm reduction programs, including Managed Alcohol and Overlook housing initiatives.

The nurse works across NECHC sites and client homes, emphasizing wellness, prevention, and health education through social determinants of health and harm reduction frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Conduct nursing assessments and health promotion activities.
• Provide counselling and harm-reduction interventions within MOSH and related programs.
• Collaborate with the MOSH health team and other NECHC programs to coordinate care.
• Deliver primary health care in community settings, client homes, and outreach locations in Halifax and Dartmouth.

Job description

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the MOSH Manager, the MOSH Nurse is a member of the Mobile outreach street health (MOSH) team who delivers primary care to people experiencing homelessness and street involvement. Also supporting Harm Reduction programs including Managed Alcohol Program and the Overlook supported harm reduction housing program.

This position is an advanced nursing position in a community outreach setting, including various NECHC community sites and client homes. The nurse works as a collaborative member of the MOSH health team, but direct care delivery may also occur independently. Services and activities that promote wellness, maintain health, and prevent disease or serious exacerbation of disease will be emphasized. Using social determinants of health and harm reduction framework, this is accomplished through nursing assessments, health promotion, and health education counselling and harm reduction. The nurse will need to assess, plan, and implement appropriate nursing interventions for both the individual and consult as a nurse at a program level.

Strong collaboration is emphasized when working with shared clients between all practitioners across programs within the NECHC and with community agencies. The nurse is expected to deliver relationship- based health care through outreach to community locations in Halifax and Dartmouth being attentive to clients’ needs and changing trends.

The following are the main objectives of the program:

• To increase access to effective and equitable primary health care to community members across the life span who are homeless, street involved, and insecurely housed.
• To improve the health status of marginalized and underserved populations.
• To create a collaborative environment in which information, knowledge, and resources are shared among community service, health care, academic, and government organizations.