Salary: $50.00 – $60.00 per hour, 35 hours per week

Location: On-site Surrey, BC (Exact location shared during onboarding due to confidentiality)

About FRAFCA:

The Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association (FRAFCA) is a rapidly growing Indigenous community-based organization, serving BC’s largest urban Indigenous population of children, youth, families & Elders. Our Vision is to build a community of strong, healthy, successful Indigenous people connected to each other and to their roots by fostering their health & well-being through culturally relevant services, support, and advocacy

Why FRAFCA:

- Chance to work alongside cultural knowledge keepers & Elders;
- Chance to obtain program specific certifications;
- Holistic, culturally safe, approaches to serving our clients and community;
- Freedom to share and observe own cultural practices (i.e. smudging in the office);
- Parking available on-site;
- Extended Health Benefits Package (Medical, Dental, Travel) and Employee Assistance Plan after 3-month continuous employment;
- Paid sick/personal leave days;
- Offices located along main transportation routes; main office by the Skytrain station.

Job Summary:

In accordance with established vision and values of FRAFCA, the Nurse works as an integral part of an integrated mental health and substance-use service. The Nurse provides urgent outreach, responsive assessment and treatment, case management, GP shared care, education, and support to individuals experiencing acute and/or chronic mental illness and/or problem substance use.

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Screens mental health referrals,



conducts assessments and problem formulation from a DSM 5 perspective, presents assessments to the team, and assists the team in determining suitability for various service options. Provides urgent response services, direct nursing care and cultural support for ongoing mental health wellness. Coordinates the provision of initial medical screening to identify physical conditions that may complicate psychiatric presentation. Screens lab values for potential problems, and reports these to treating physicians. Administers medications in accordance with physicians’ orders, and monitors the effects of treatment.
2. Provides short term intensive and longer-term clinical case management, leads educational and support groups, initiates Rehabilitation Worker involvement in helping client to attain improvement in activities of daily living (i.e., resource access, work, education, leisure), engages in shared care activities with family physicians, and co-leads mental health/substance use and psychoeducation, change oriented groups.
3. Receives, investigates and documents designated agency reports of adult abuse and neglect; determines if vulnerable adults require support or assistance; and develops support and assistance plans in accordance with the mandate of a designated agency.
4. Determines if an adult is (in)



capable of giving consent to health care: obtains substitute consent from a temporary substitute decision maker (TSDM); determines whether a TSDM is acting in accordance with their duties; develops plans for minor health care and provides triage, preliminary examinations, treatment for health care in accordance with the health Care (Consent) and Care Facilities (Admissions) Act.
5. Develops support and assistance plans for abused and neglected adults and for obtaining authority to enter premises to determine if health care should be provided in accordance with Part 3 of the Adult Guardianship Act, in addition to connecting survivors with elders in community.
6. Participates in the application and evaluation of evidence-based nursing practice: formulates clinical questions about the patients’ concerns, treatments, tests, risk factors; searches for answers to determine what level of evidence is appropriate; reviews the available evidence; uses clinical and life experience to interweave the information with the patient, and observes the information to ensure the client’s response to the treatment.
7. Participates in clinical rounds, culturally relevant events and activities, helps to facilitate treatment by contributing to multidisciplinary assessment, treatment planning, and assists with treatment monitoring and evaluation; along with maintaining a culturally safe space. Shares information with appropriate mental health professionals and family members, as required.
8. Provides education and support to patients, families, and focus groups on

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