2025-100 Nurse Practitioner - Rapid Access Addiction Medicine

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Moosonee, Ontario, Canada .
full-time . March 20, 2025

Description

Title: Nurse Practitioner - Rapid Access Addiction Medicine

Division: Integrated Indigenous Health and Specialized Community Services

Affiliation: Ontario Nurses Association

Site: Moosonee, ON

Reports to: Director of Mental Health and Addictions

Status: Permanent Full-time

Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is seeking an experience candidate to fill the key role of Nurse Practitioner – RAAM Rapid Access Addiction Medicine.

Life at WAHA

A beacon of healing, wellness, and innovation, WAHA connects remote communities with the care they deserve. With spellbinding views surrounding each site, team members bask in the tranquility of the land, juxtaposed against a bustling workplace busy addressing the complex needs of the region. Here, we work with purpose, knowing each action matters. Patients are neighbours, family, and colleagues. Each day brings a challenge- the good kind that stretches you, helps you grow, and makes you feel vital. These hurdles birth opportunities to problem solve, develop new skills, and explore new roles. Here, we step into a version of ourselves once forgotten, overshadowed by the daily grind, and rediscover a deep connection with ourselves, the land, and each other. Here, we experience work with wonder. #WeAreWAHA

What We Do

There has never been a more exciting time to be at WAHA. We are an integrated health system providing the full continuum of care to the six communities of the western James Bay coast with over 500 employees, physicians, and partners in care. As a health authority, you will work in a unique setting where you have the opportunity to care for patients in all phases of their life journey, in all areas of their health experience. From Primary, Acute, and Mental Health, Dental, Specialty Clinics, Population Health and the WAHA Paramedic Service, the opportunities for growth are boundless. We provide community-based programming in all six of our communities, have six paramedic bases, three hospitals, four emergency departments, one community health centre and a total of 72 beds. Our guiding goal is to be a centre of excellence in Indigenous and remote healthcare. To make this goal a reality, we have formed partnerships with other centres of excellence to remove barriers and eliminate the inequity of health services access that have long impacted the patients that we serve.

At WAHA, we are leading the way in health transformation. Come and immerse yourself in the local Cree culture, work with dedicated and passionate colleagues, and live in beautiful northern communities with amazing community members. Our mission is to provide optimum healthcare as close to home as possible. You can be part of this rewarding experience. Come and find your adventure in the north.

Who You Are

Knowledge and experience with providing care at all stages of substance use from intoxication through withdrawal, and maintenance for all commonly abused substances
Demonstrate ability to establish therapeutic, supportive relationships with client/family/caregivers/community agencies by utilizing skilled interviewing and communication techniques and appropriate nursing interventions
Utilizes critical thinking and analytical skill to gather data from multiple sources assesses and interprets information to create treatment plans
Experience with and trained in Opiate Replacement Therapy
Experience in primary care settings (community-based preferred)

What You’ll Do

Provide low barrier addictions medicine care to individuals with substance use disorders
Improve access to specialized treatment for withdrawal management through the provisions of comprehensive and specialized assessment, diagnosis and prescribing of medication for people with substance use disorder
Responsible for a variety of health services, which include withdrawal management, harm reduction, in combination with health promotion, illness prevention, rehabilitation and support services in addiction and mental health
Working with internal and external stakeholders to initiate withdrawal management protocols and harm reduction treatments

What You Bring

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (master’s prepared)
Bachelor Degree in Nursing Science
Registered with CNO as a Registered Nurse Extended Class (RN EC)
2 years' experience as a Nurse Practitioner, RN, (EC) preferably in a community setting with Addictions specific experience, an asset
Entry level NP with controlled substances competencies OR completion of College of Nurses Council approved controlled substances course

Why Choose Us

Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan
Group health, welfare, and Employee and Family Assistance Program Benefits
Relocation paid by the organization
Housing provided by the organization
Annual retention bonus, a northern living allowance, and vacation travel bonus (all pensionable earnings)
Be part of an organization leading health transformation in the remote north
Ability to work with a purpose, connected to an amazing community and culture, with opportunities to learn and grow

Salary: $159,588.00 - $165,886.50

How to Apply

The successful candidate must provide a valid Vulnerable Sector Screening Check within a specified time frame.

Please apply in writing, providing three recent work references, quoting Competition #2025-100:

For more information contact the HR team by email: jobs@waha.ca
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted
This position will remain open till filled
Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Weeneebayko Area Health Authority, all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada

Weeneebayko Area Health Authority is an inclusive employer. Accommodations are available in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights code and Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.

Compensation

$81.84 - $85.07 per hour

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