Job Summary

The Registered Nurse provides treatment and care management services. They are responsible for providing individualized care, assessing, observing, and speaking to residents. Recording details and symptoms of residents medical history and current health. Administering medications and treatments, then monitoring residents for side effects and reactions. support to guests in their living environment while encouraging independence, self-responsibility, and healthy lifestyle choices. The successful candidate possesses advanced crisis management and intervention skills, with a demonstrated ability to assess, plan, and implement health services. They work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team-based model of care, promoting a culturally safe and responsive, trauma-informed approach, establishing a welcoming therapeutic environment, and promoting client self-determination and independence.

Position Type - Temporary Full-Time and Permanent Full-Time
Days and hours of work: Monday - Friday 10 am - 6 pm

Functions & Responsibilities of Registered Nurse:-

- Establish a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological support to residents.
- Coordinates care for clients by collaborating with interprofessional care team, developing, implementing, maintaining, and adjusting comprehensive treatment plans based on client needs and best practices, administering prescribed medications, and monitoring and assessing clients' mental state, response to medications and efficacy of treatment plan to ensure optimum client centered care.
- Plans and provides direct nursing care to clients in compliance with standards of practice, conducting physical/psychosocial assessments, developing a care plan specific for the client, and collaborating with other members of the health care team to discuss and review the care plan, and implements other treatment modalities as required such as ADLs, wound care and administering of medications.
- Monitors residents by methods such as observing resident’s health condition and environment including functional ability, living arrangement, and family supports
- Documents assessments, care plan, observations,



interventions, client/family responses, outcomes/evaluations, and referrals in accordance with medical standard practices
- Implements and evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions and modifies as necessary, recommending adjustment to treatments plans to enable independence.
- Implement use of trauma informed practice and demonstrate strong understanding of harm reduction principles
- Maintains an awareness of community social and mental health resources, makes this information available to clients, while respecting their individual goals.
- Initiates and participates in case conferences/meetings with clients, family, service providers and members of the interprofessional team for identification of client mental health issues, concerns regarding services and coordination, emergent issues, and discussion of on-going follow-up care to ensure a coordinated approach to treatment. Acts as client advocate to protect and promote clients' right to autonomy, respect, privacy, dignity, and access to information.
- Effectively manages crisis situations, using non-violent crisis intervention techniques and behavior management
- Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team, including providing mentorship, support, and training as needed
- Learn and understand Community Builders’ values and philosophy of support, empowerment, inclusion, and openness for staff and residents.
- Ensure compliance with legislated standards of medical field and internal policies, recommend best practices for clinical programs, and provide leadership to accomplish these goals with staff.

Education & Experience

- Practicing Nurse, registered with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives
- Current First Aid and CPR certification




- Minimum 1 year experience in clinical environment, complex patients with mental health centered environment and/or functional mobility issues including recent experience in care and transition planning.

Abilities

- Ability to uphold best practices in the nursing field
- Ability to independently analyze and interpret policies, and make recommendations on feasible solutions
- Ability to independently plan, organize, manage, and control a high volume of activities
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and discretion within policy guidelines

About Us

Community Builders is a growing non-profit housing provider based in Vancouver which strives to offer a superior level of service, housing, and support to the most underserved and vulnerable members of our communities. With 20 years of expertise in Vancouver's urban core area, specializing in a variety of housing options, Community Builders is committed to support for persons with physical health, mental health and addictions issues; property management; emergency housing provision; and social enterprise development. Community Builders utilizes a bottom-up development approach that empowers participants to find their own paths to wellness. Community Builders supports inclusive environments which allow participants to achieve their personalized goals and operate housing centers that are safe and supportive.

We are an equal chance employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to Indigenous identity, race, color, ancestry, place of origin, political belief, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age of that person or because that person has been convicted of a criminal or summary conviction offence that is unrelated to the employment or to the intended employment of that person.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $44.75 per hour

Benefits:

- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Work Location: In person

📌 Registered Nurse (Canada)
🏢 Community Builders
📍 Canada