MOSH Registered Nurse - Casual (External)

Kaizen Lab Inc.; Halifax; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaizen Lab Inc. in Halifax seeks an advanced MOSH Nurse to join the Mobile Outreach Street Health team and deliver primary care to people experiencing homelessness and those involved in street activity.

The role also supports harm reduction programs including Managed Alcohol Program and Overlook housing services. This advanced nursing position operates across NECHC community sites and client homes, promoting wellness, preventive care, and education within a social determinants framework.

Qualifications

• Advanced nursing position in a community outreach setting.
• Experience delivering primary care to vulnerable populations.
• Ability to work collaboratively across programs and community agencies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver primary care to people experiencing homelessness and those street involved.
• Conduct nursing assessments, health promotion, and health education counseling.
• Collaborate with NECHC teams and community agencies; outreach to Halifax and Dartmouth.
• Assess, plan, and implement nursing interventions for individuals and programs.

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.