Elevate NWO is seeking a compassionate and skilled Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) to join our multidisciplinary Community Health Services team.
This position provides nursing care, testing, treatment support, health education, and clinical follow-up through our clinic, Drop-In Centre, outreach, and community programs. Working alongside our Nurse Practitioner and interdisciplinary team, you'll help improve access to low-barrier, client-centred health care for individuals experiencing complex health and social challenges.
About Elevate NWO
Elevate NWO is a community health organization committed to improving health outcomes through harm reduction, health promotion, and equitable access to care. We provide services for people living with or at risk of HIV, Hepatitis C, sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs), substance use, homelessness, housing insecurity, poverty, mental health concerns, and other barriers to health.
What You'll Do
- Provide nursing care, treatment support, health education, and clinical follow-up.
- Conduct point-of-care and laboratory-based testing for HIV, HCV, STBBIs, and related health concerns.
- Perform venipuncture, specimen collection, and other clinical procedures within the RPN scope of practice.
- Support client assessment, care planning, treatment monitoring, and referrals in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide pre- and post-test counselling and harm reduction education.
- Participate in community outreach, testing events, and health promotion initiatives.
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation using electronic medical record systems.
- Collaborate with internal staff, community partners, and other health-care providers to support continuity of care.
Working Environment
This is a community nursing position with a diverse and dynamic practice environment. Work is performed in our clinic, Drop-In Centre, outreach settings, partner agencies, clients' homes, temporary living settings, and other community locations.
No two days are the same. The successful candidate must be comfortable working with individuals experiencing homelessness, substance use, mental health concerns, poverty, trauma, and other complex social and health needs. The role includes participation in overdose response, crisis situations, and other unpredictable clinical environments while working within established organizational policies, clinical protocols, and CNO standards.
Qualifications
- Current registration in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Practical Nurse.
- Two to three years of nursing experience preferred, ideally in community health, primary care, harm reduction, outreach, infectious disease, or a related setting.
- Experience with phlebotomy, point-of-care testing, and specimen collection.
- Knowledge of HIV, Hepatitis C, STBBIs, harm reduction, substance use, and health equity.
- Excellent communication, clinical judgment, and organizational skills.
- Commitment to trauma-informed, culturally safe, and anti-stigma practice.
- Valid Ontario Class G driver's licence; access to an insured vehicle is an asset.
- Successful completion of a Vulnerable Persons Criminal Reference Check.
Why Join Elevate NWO?
- Meaningful work that improves lives every day.
- Collaborative, multidisciplinary team environment.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- RRSP matching program.
- Opportunity to make a lasting impact in Northwestern Ontario.
Elevate NWO values diversity and encourages applications from people with lived or living experience related to HIV, Hepatitis C, substance use, housing insecurity, homelessness, and other priority populations identified by the Ministry of Health. We also strongly encourage applications from Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit applicants and others with direct connections to the communities we serve.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $54,398.00-$62,423.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Application question(s):
- What does harm reduction mean to you?
Location:
- Thunder Bay, ON P7A 4M2 (required)
Work Location: In person
