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JOB TITLE: Outreach Nurse WORK LOCATION: Whapmagoostui UNION: FIQ STATUS: Temporary Full-Time SHIFT: Days / Evenings Flexible schedule: includes day/evening and possible public health on-call periods HOURLY SALARY: Min. (1) $30.27 - Max (18) $53.64 HOURS PER DAY/WEEK: 7.50/37.50 SUMMARY OF THE POSITION Person who assumes responsibility for a range of nursing care activities based on the bio-psycho-social needs of assigned users or groups of people. She/he assesses users state of health, determines and ensures the implementation of nursing care and treatment plans for users with complex health problems and/or various bio-psycho-social dimensions. She/he provides nursing and medical care and treatment to maintain health, restore health and prevent disease. She/he can prescribe laboratory analyzes, treatments, products, medication and dressings in the fields of wound care, public health and routine care according to the regulations in force. She/he designs, applies and evaluates care programs requiring advanced knowledge, aimed at complex health problems and/or involving various bio-psycho-social dimensions. She/he participates in the development or adaptation of clinical and quality-of-care assessment tools, coordinates teamwork and plays an advisory role with colleagues and the interdisciplinary team. - Contribute to the ongoing effort to maintain access to respiratory virus vaccination and screening; - Ensure that access to STBBI screening and treatment can be maintained; - Being an active member of an interdisciplinary team; - Support and strengthen families to promote the optimal health and development in all age groups; SPECIFIC FONCTIONS Outreach and partnership: - Contribute to develop and maintain partnership with community-based entities. - Participate and organize workshops and activities about various health topics. - Collaborate with partners, provide and conduct at least 2 outreach outings weekly where services are provided to the community outside the CMC walls. - Focus on building trust relationships with youth and provide them with support, solutions, resources and promote participation to traditional and land-based programming. - Support and strengthen families to promote the optimal health and development in all age groups. Screening and treatment: - Provide access to various infectious diseases screening and testing (STBBI, respiratory viruses and MADO), do the counseling, interpret result, conduct contact tracing and investigation and offer appropriate treatment and recommendation - Contribute to the implementation and the use of specific screening devices such as ID now, GenXpert and ionic nebuliser. - Contribute to the deployment and implementation of populational screening strategies related to infectious diseases. - Support the CMC current services in: - Managing and monitoring cases of contagious tuberculosis - Managing and monitoring people in close contact with these cases - Support the follow-up of MADO and deliver the treatment to the social network of the index case, in collaboration with region 17. Vaccination: - Coordinate and support local team into continuous access to respiratory viruses vaccination - Provide spontaneous support to immunisation programmes: vaccination of workers, influenza campaign, school vaccination and others. - Provide support for post exposure immunisation against rabies - Update files and SI-PMI. Outbreak management and Emergency response: - Collaborate with local team and community-based partners to lead outbreak management response or play any role requested by regional Public Health team to response to a public health treat, known or emerging. Other: - May provide support for blood testing upon approval from the management team; - Excellent communication skills in an educational/teaching context; - Ability to work effectively within a multicultural and interdisciplinary team; - Respect for Cree culture and traditions; - Strong ability to maintain positive interpersonal relationships; - Position located in the community of Whapmagoostui, with the possibility of relocation within the Eeyou Istchee territory depending on organizational needs; - All public health department staff may be temporarily mobilized in the event of a public health emergency. REQUIREMENTS Education: - Member in good standing of the O.I.I.Q; - Must have Bachelor of Science in Nursing or an undergraduate degree consisting of three (3) admissible certificates, of which two (2) are accredited certificates in Nursing; - INSPQ training 'The STI screening intervention - the nurse's contribution is (training may be done after the start of the assignment) (an asset); - Training of the Protocole d'immunisation du Qubec PIQ; - Be familiar with the Tuberculosis Professional Practice Guide - Must have relevant clinical experience in public health. Experience: - Two (2) years of experience as a nurse; - Must have relevant clinical experience in public health; - Experience with a First Nation clientele (an asset); - Must have experience in outreach and providing care outside of a clinical setting; - Experience in a remote area. LANGUAGE - Fluent in English and in French; - Fluency in Cree is an asset.