RN - Community Health Nurse

Job Title: Community Health Nurse

Location: Sydney, Nova Scotia

Remote: No

Business Unit: Health

Department: Health Services

Job Type: Full-time

Calian is proud to continue a long-standing contractual relationship with the Department of National Defence (DND) to provide healthcare services to the Canadian Armed Forces. Through the Health Care Provider Contract, Calian employs health care professionals across Canada who are integral to supporting the health and wellbeing of our military members.

Position Overview

Calian is currently seeking a Community Health Nurse to add to our dedicated team of civilian professionals working at CFB Sydney. In this role you will be primarily involved with disease and injury prevention initiatives, immunizations, and overall health promotion and protection of all CAF members posted to CFB Sydney.

Responsibilities

• Manages and participates in immunization and travel medicine instructions

• Manages and participates in desensitization clinics

• Performs screening for tuberculosis and/or other illnesses

• Promotes health improvement initiatives by planning, coordinating, and facilitating health promotion clinics

• Assess individual needs for and provides education and counseling related to the prevention of health disorders and the maintenance of quality of life when health is impaired

• Attends clinics that support, and guide CF members affected by similar health conditions, documents and makes recommendations for outside referrals

• Participates in the management of the outcome data on population health and assists in the extrapolation of health trends pertaining to individuals

• Promotes health improvement initiatives by planning, coordinating, and facilitating health promotion clinics

Requirements:

• Licensed with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized nursing program

• 3 full time equivalent years of relevant experience within the last 5 years in nursing practice:

• Applying the principles of immunization and communicable diseases management including immunization schedules, vaccine storage and handling, and infection prevention and control;

• Delivering patient education such as Chronic Disease Self-Management programs; and

• Working in Public or Community Health - Communicable Disease Control Program, Travel Health, Primary Care, or Occupational Health environment.

Additional Requirements

• Must be able to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level

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