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 analyses, 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 FUNCTIONS

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 results, 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.
- 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 respond to a public health threat, 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 mobilised in the event of a public health emergency.

REQUIREMENTS

Education

- Member in valuable 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).
- 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.

Seniority level

- Associate

Employment type

- Temporary

Job function

- Health Care Provider
- Public Health

📌 Outreach Nurse (Nord-du-Québec)
🏢 Cree Board of Health and Social Services of James Bay
📍 Nord-du-Québec