Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) SCS - Casual

Boyle-McCauley Health Care • Edmonton, AB

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Radius Community Health & Healing provides interdisciplinary, team based, integrated, comprehensive, and person-centered primary health care for vulnerable Edmontonians with complex needs. Through primary care and health promotion, Radius Community Health & Healing improves the quality of life and well-being of populations and individuals who face multiple barriers to accessing health services. Radius achieves this by providing the highest standard of evidence-informed and client focused inter-professional care. We collaborate with our clients to address the broad determinants of health.

Within Radius Community Health & Healing, the SCS (Supervised Consumption Service) is part of a range of evidence-based services that support prevention, harm reduction and treatment for Albertans living with substance use. SCS provides a place where people can use drugs in a monitored, hygienic environment to reduce harm from substance use while offering wrap-around services such as counselling, social work and referrals to housing and treatment (e.g., opioid-dependency treatment, detox) and works collaboratively with the rest of Radius to provide individualized services to meet service user's needs.

Requirements

• Current registration, in good standing, with CLPNA
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Healthcare Provider (BCLS-HCP)
• Mandatory vulnerable sector check and suitable criminal record check
• Knowledge and operation of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
• Able to balance numerous demands and conflicting priorities, strong problem-solving skills
• Knowledge and experience working with both diverse and vulnerable populations
• Working with a multidisciplinary team
• Knowledge of trauma informed care and social determinants of health
• A kind, non-judgmental approach to working with service users and ability to work within a harm reduction model of care
• Ability to demonstrate patience and understanding for those with addictions and behavioral disorders
• Be able to work both co-operatively within a multidisciplinary team, and also independently in a self-directed and accountable manner
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Has a good understanding of trauma-informed care, and must be able to operate within a harm reduction model of care

Nice To Haves

• Experience applicable to the position (social work, psychology, sociology, addictions counseling, criminal justice, ext.)
• Mental health, addictions, emergency and/or harm reduction experience
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention training
• Mental Health First Aid and Applied Suicide Intervention Training
• Knowledge of problems encountered by Indigenous people in using health care services
• Knowledge and experience surrounding homelessness
• Knowledge of social support services available in Edmonton and surrounding areas
• Ability to lift up to 20kg may be required

Responsibilities

• Maintain a quiet, safe space for service users
• Build relationships with service users
• Provide referrals to support services
• Provide education and counseling on safer drug use, harm reduction, and sexual health
• Provide overdose prevention education, and Naloxone training for take home Naloxone kits
• Manage drug poisoning emergencies within scope of practice for an LPN and Radius medical direction
• Assist the nurse with monitoring of service users, and bring medical concerns to their attention
• Provide direct client care to program participants accessing the consumption site.
• Forming relationships with clients, establishing rapport, supervising and monitoring substance use, and assisting and treating potential signs of overdose as clinically indicated.
• Responsible for medical interventions within SCS – primarily the reversal of drug poisonings, but also incidental medical concerns that are brought up by SCS clientele.
• Facilitate the connection of clients between the SCS and all programs at Radius, with the goal of allowing the client to move along the spectrum of care towards recovery.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits (Premiums are fully covered by Radius for permanent, full-time employees after a defined waiting period)
• Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, and Critical Illness Coverage (Mandatory enrollment, employees are responsible to pay premiums for permanent, full-time employees after a defined waiting period)
• Lifestyle Spending Account (for permanent, full-time employees after a defined waiting period)
• Group Retirement Savings Plan (for permanent, full-time employees after a defined waiting period)

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed