• Fantastic opportunity to expand your Nursing career while making a difference in your community
• Join a friendly, dynamic, welcoming, and inclusive team of caring professionals
• Be rewarded with an attractive $39.07 - $56.00 / hour, plus great benefits

About Casey House

Casey House is unlike any other hospital. We are a specialty hospital providing ground-breaking holistic care for people living with and at risk of HIV. We offer a growing mix of inpatient, outpatient, and community-based services that meet clients where they are in their individual journeys to health and wellness. Our safe, welcoming, and judgement-free environment promotes a sense of belonging and community, where the humanity of each client is at the heart of everything we do.

To support us in this work, we are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live and serve, including 2SLGBTQ+, Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities, as well as those living with HIV. Every Casey House staff member, peer, and volunteer acts and delivers care to clients in accordance with our purpose, values, and philosophy of care. If you share our values, we would love to have you in our team!

 For more information about Casey House, please visit our website.

About the Opportunity

We currently have an opportunity for Registered Nurses to join our team in Toronto, ON, on a casual basis (OPSEU bargaining unit).

Hours of Work: 12 hour shifts within a 24-hour staffed hospital environment (days and nights required)

Develop your mental health and harm reduction skills in a small inpatient unit housed in a modern light-filled, purpose-built facility. Nurses work in partnership with physicians and an allied health team to provide values-led care for 14 patients with diverse needs. Engage in bedside nursing with a harm reduction approach to care for clinically complex medical issues, including opportunistic infections, early aging, oncologic and cardiovascular health concerns, often coupled with psychiatric and substance use challenges. Casey House is the first to offer hospital-based supervised consumption services (SCS), available right on the unit.

More specifically, your responsibilities in this role will entail, but are not restricted to:

• Developing meaningful nurse-client relationships by using a harm reduction, anti-oppressive, social justice and trauma-informed framework 
• Participating in a wide range of client care, including but not limited to; infectious disease investigations, mental health and substance use support, overdose responses, wound care, phlebotomy, post-surgical care, radiation/chemotherapy care, palliative and end of life care
• Working within an interprofessional team, with meaningful daily collaboration among team members to support and maintain high quality care
• Ensuring standards of client care are maintained through evidence-informed practice and participation in continuous quality improvement
• Pursuing ongoing professional development activities continuously, including seminars, workshops, internal/external education programs/groups/series and professional affiliations, among others

A successful Casey House inpatient nurse blends their skills and abilities to build therapeutic relationships that deliver strong primary, harm reduction, and palliative nursing skills to optimize client outcomes.

About You

In order to qualify for this role, you will need a Nursing Degree or Diploma, as well as a minimum 1 year of general nursing experience.

The following qualifications will ensure your success in this role:

• Current member in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) without restrictions
• Membership in RNAO, CANAC and/or ANAC (asset)
• Experience in HIV/AIDS, mental health and addiction care (asset)
• Good understanding of the principles of client-centered care (autonomy, self-determination)
• Experience with utilizing a harm reduction framework and a trauma-informed approach to care
• Strong nursing assessment skills
• Proficiency in the use of computer technology
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Flexible availability to work a minimum of one shift within a six-week period, plus the ability to pick up shifts as offered

As our ideal candidate for this role, you will be an energetic and enthusiastic team player who displays strong interpersonal skills & demonstrated capacity to work within a well-defined interdisciplinary team. 

Lastly, you have a high degree of professionalism and has highly-developed conflict resolution, critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving skills. 

About the Benefits

For your hard work, you will be rewarded with an attractive $39.07 - $56.00 / hour, as well as the following excellent benefits:

• Full alignment to ONA wage band
• Optional participation in Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
• 6% pay in lieu of vacation
• 10% or 14% pay in lieu of benefits, based on participation in HOOPP
• Employee and Family Assistance Plan
• Free on-site indoor parking (based on daily availability) 
• Indoor-secured bicycle parking

Most importantly, you will join us with an open mind, and a compassionate and empathetic desire to make a positive difference in your community. 

Casey House is committed to providing accommodation in all parts of the hiring process. If you require an accommodation, please notify us and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Please be aware that Casey House has adopted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, which requires all staff to be fully vaccinated, or for those not able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, provide medical documentation and undertake point of care antigen testing no later than 48 hours prior to the start of each shift. 

This posting will close at 11:59 PM on August 30th, 2024