Registered Nurse – Community Health Centre

Alliance for Healthier Communities; Toronto; On-site; CAD 64,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health non-profit organization in Toronto is seeking a Registered Nurse for the Community Health Centre. This permanent, full-time position involves providing primary care and wellness assessments, making health assessments within a multidisciplinary team, and requires a commitment to pro-choice philosophy. Candidates must hold a baccalaureate degree or diploma and have strong clinical assessment skills. The role demands sensitivity to diverse community needs and experience with priority populations.

Benefits

Salary range from $64,314 to $80,925

Benefits included

Qualifications

• Licensed as a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• Experience in health teaching, advocacy, and health promotion.
• Commitment to a pro-choice philosophy.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary care and wellness assessments across the lifespan.
• Health teaching and advocacy for individuals within a harm reduction framework.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Strong clinical assessment skills

Strong documentation and communication skills

Ability to speak a second language

Sensitivity to social health determinants

Experience with priority populations

Education

Baccalaureate degree or diploma

Job description

• Registered Nurse – Community Health Centre
• Permanent, Full-Time (35 hours per week)
• Salary $64,314 to $80,925 per annum plus benefits (salary is commensurate on primary care exp.)

Unison Health and Community Services is a non‑profit, community-based organization that serves neighbourhoods in Northwest Toronto. Operating out of six locations, Unison offers core services that include primary health care, counselling, health promotion, Early Years programs, legal services, harm reduction programs, housing assistance, adult protective services, Pathways to Education™ and a Diabetes Education Program. Unison’s mission is working together to deliver accessible and high‑quality health and community services that are integrated, respond to needs, build on strengths and inspire change.

Unison Health and Community Services is committed to working from an inclusive, pro‑choice, sex positive, harm reduction, anti‑racist, anti‑oppression and participatory framework.

We are seeking a candidate for the position of Community Health Nurse to join the Primary Health Care team at our Jane‑Trethewey and Oakwood‑Vaughan sites. The ideal candidate for this position will have a strong background in clinical primary care, experience in health teaching, advocacy and health promotion.

Job‑Specific Responsibilities:

• Provision of primary care and wellness assessments across the lifespan including immunization, chronic disease monitoring, triage and assessment over the phone, point of care testing, venepuncture, counselling and assessment, and care of minor episodic illnesses in collaboration with physicians, nurse practitioners, and allied health professionals
• Health teaching and advocacy for individuals within a harm reduction framework
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
• Participation in team meetings, committees, and centre‑wide initiatives

Licensed as a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario with no restrictions to practice

• Baccalaureate degree or diploma with equivalent experience
• Strong clinical assessment skills
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Ability to speak a second language is an asset
• Sensitivity to the impact of social health determinants on a diverse, urban, low‑income community
• Sensitivity to, and knowledge of the needs of a multicultural, multiracial, community
• Experience serving Unison’s priority populations including people with mental health and substance use issues, seniors with complex needs, LGBTQ2IA+ persons, including persons needing trans care, and youth with sexual health needs facing barriers to access
• Commitment to pro‑choice philosophy
• Current RNAO membership with malpractice coverage is an asset.

Successful candidate must be available to work one evening shift per week

Location

Toronto, ON

How to apply:

Interested candidates are asked to email a résumé with covering letter by Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. to:

Hiring Committee – Registered Nurse - Community Health Centre

Please cite UN_2025_041 in the subject line of the email.

We welcome applications from people who are reflective of the diverse communities we serve, including those who might need accommodation.

Where needed, accommodations for applicants with disabilities will be provided, on request, to support their participation in all aspects of the recruitment process.

Please note that due to the volume of applications, only those applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.