ABOUT US

The Helping House provides wholistic, culturally integrated primary care for Indigenous clients and families. We are a team of interdisciplinary clinicians, including family physician(s), a naturopathic doctor, a nurse practitioner, a traditional Elder and Knowledge Keeper, a wholistic wellness nurse and others, and strive to serve the Tsleil-Waututh Nation peoples by way of medical oversight, health and wellness services, and cultural healing.

Known as the People of the Inlet, the Tsleil-Wautt have lived on the unceded lands of the Burrard Inlet since time immemorial. Entrusted by their ancestors as stewards of the land, water, and air, the Tsleil-Waututh draw on the spirituality and wisdom of their traditional healers and knowledge keepers to fulfill this trust and thereby support the health of their families and communities at large.

By joining our team, you will come to enjoy not only fulfilling working relations with fellow colleagues, but also a meaningful connection with the people we serve, and from whom we continue to have much to learn.

JOB SUMMARY

As an integral member of the Primary Care Team, the Primary Care Clinic Nurse (RN/RPN) delivers effective, culturally safe, and compassionate nursing care for Tsleil-Waututh Nation community members and families in a team-based, interdisciplinary model of primary care. By way of care planning, collaboration, and a relational, person and family-centered approach, the nurse works closely with the family physician(s), the nurse practitioner, the naturopathic doctor, and other team members to address the complex care needs for shared clients, ensuring both continuity of care and integration of health care services over time.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• With cultural humility, fosters care relationships with clients and their self-identified families and support persons to help establish rapport, trust, and mutual respect
• Using a trauma-informed approach, promotes a culturally-safe and therapeutic care environment in support of client advocacy and right to self-determination
• In conducting initial and ongoing health assessments, helps identify clients’ physiological, psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual needs to ensure a holistic approach to care planning and care provision
• Assesses clients’ functional status and informal support network, and bolsters integrity of supports as needed by way of advocacy, shared care planning, and integration of additional formal supports and resources
• Anticipates medical and functional changes over time, especially in the context of serious illness or chronic disease, and provides avenues for early engagement and conversations with clients and families to ensure care planning is guided by clients’ and families’ goals and values
• Initiates and participates in care conferences with clients, families, interprofessional team members, and service providers to help ensure a coordinated and integrated approach to client care
• Ensures effective communication and collaboration to help support interdisciplinary care planning and team-based care delivery
• Coming from a client & family-centered model of care planning, with clients as partners in their care, tailors individualized care plans in consultation with clients, their families, and members of the interdisciplinary care team
• Supports clients’ access to health services and helps clients and families navigate resources and overcome personal and systemic barriers to accessing care and achieving health & wellness
• Effectively addresses systemic barriers to ensure seamless care transitions and continuity of care between acute and community care services, by engaging closely and collaboratively with acute care services to support safe and effective discharge planning
• Administers treatments, medications, and immunizations as prescribed by the physician(s) or nurse practitioner, while monitoring, evaluating and reporting response to treatment
• Assists the physician(s) or nurse practitioner in medical procedures
• Provides clinical nursing support to the TWN home community care team as needed and facilitates shared care planning between the primary care and home community care teams
• Liaises with community Elders and Knowledge Keepers to help foster connection, cultural engagement, and strength-based healing
• Performs other duties as assigned or required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Broad and comprehensive knowledge of practice-level nursing theories to support evidence-based clinical practice
• Keen and demonstrated ability to apply best practice standards, while using and integrating research in professional practice
• Clinical nursing expertise and critical thinking skills in supporting wholistic and longitudinal care of clients including comprehensive nursing assessment and care planning; health promotion and disease prevention; motivational interviewing and self-management support; chronic disease management; interdisciplinary care conferencing; care coordination and care management; client advocacy; and clinical nursing services (including health education and screening, medication management, wound care, SQ and IM injections, palliative care nursing, and other nursing care interventions)
• Demonstrated knowledge of adult education principles and experience in developing and providing formal education, and providing supportive counselling and lifestyle modification training to individuals and families
• Awareness of the impact of socio-economic health determinants and intergenerational trauma on one’s individual and collective experience of health care
• Ability to work independently and in collaboration with others, whilst possessing sound judgment in decision making and effectively setting priorities for care
• Self-directed, with demonstrated organizational skills
• Exceptional oral and written communication, conflict resolution, and de-escalation skills, which effectively support meaningful connection, interpersonal relations, and collaborative team dynamics
• Deeply self-aware, reflective, and emotionally grounded, demonstrating a genuine, kind, and gentle approach in relating to others, offering compassion and care to support the well-being of clients and their families
• Ability to make effective referrals, reflecting an in-depth knowledge of community and external resources and strong collaborative skills in working with community partners
• Demonstrated knowledge of the social, economic, political, and historical realities of settler colonialism and their impacts on Indigenous peoples
• Critical understanding of the systemic racism which continues to plague our health care system
• A strong ethic of client service and knowledge about the cultures and traditions of diverse Indigenous peoples
• Knowledge of Indigenous ways of knowing and being, including a wholistic perspective of one’s being: the physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual
• Knowledge of cultural and spiritual practices related to Indigenous health
• Ability to continue to strongly advocate for and support clients, while being witness to the ongoing impacts of systemic racism, population health disparities, and other social justice concerns
• High level of emotional intelligence and social perceptiveness
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Education & Experience:

• Current practicing registration that is in good standing, as a Registered Nurse (RN) or Registered Psychiatric Nurse (RPN), with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)
• Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• A minimum of two (2) years’ recent clinical experience that is relevant to working in primary care in community, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
• Proficiency in the use of MS office and clinical software, including nursing documentation systems
• Valid BC Driver’s License Class 5
• Reliable vehicle and current vehicle insurance
• Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) provider certification through the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
• Documentation of immunization and TB screening history
• Criminal records check (vulnerable populations sector)

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Indigenous cultural safety and humility training (e.g. San’yas)
• Demonstrated knowledge of Tsleil-Waututh Nation culture

Previous experience working in a First Nations community and/or organization

Apply here:

Primary Care Clinic Nurse (RN/RPN)

or send your Cover Letter and Resume to : Jobapplications@twnation.ca

 Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted