Position: Registered Nurse
Reports to: Clinical Nurse Lead
Location: Trail, British Columbia
About Us
The Lower Columbia Community Health Centre Network Society (LCCHCNS) is a not-for-profit organization committed to providing accessible team-based primary care
As a Registered Nurse, you will be working at the Lower Columbia Community Health Centre (LCCHC), a multidisciplinary team environment delivering comprehensive care addressing the physical, mental, and social determinants of health, with a focus on marginalized populations.
Job Summary
As a Registered Nurse, you will play a key role in providing holistic, person-centered and culturally appropriate care along a continuum.
You are organized, can prioritize, are excellent communicator and have the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. You demonstrate conflict resolution, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
You will be responsible for providing assessment, screening, healthy lifestyle support, education, and chronic disease management with a goal of improving health outcomes and facilitating access to services.
You provide support and services through a trauma informed care framework and culturally sensitive and safe lens for families and individuals across the lifespan; you have experience working with marginalized populations, and a knowledge of the community and mental health resources.
You will initiate, implement, and monitor health care plans in collaboration with the patient, practitioners and other members of the interdisciplinary team. You work to the full scope of practice as set out by the BCCNN.
Key Responsibilities
● Provide information to team members as required, including patient specific care instructions.
● Check results for practitioners during absences, assessing the urgency and escalating according to clinic protocols
● Create and review patient care needs and treatment goals. Identify, plan, implement, and evaluate changes to the written team-based care plan as required. Book patients for follow up in line with the team-based care approach
● Provide nursing assessments using tools and techniques based on the patient’s unique needs, including consultation services for patients (e.g. completing and documenting a thorough medication assessment)
● Prioritize case management and scheduling of walk-in patients
● Provide limited counseling support for patients in crisis
● Maintain accurate and comprehensive health records. Document nursing care and nursing interventions according to BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) documentation practice standards
● Use a variety of established health education, promotion, and service interventions, such as the Well Child Program, and Pre/Post-natal Care
● Optimizing capacities for health by modeling, counseling, and teaching life skills for individual patients and their caregivers/families
● Use epidemiological methods to investigate and follow-up on reportable communicable diseases in accordance with established policies and procedures
● Manage the full cycle of immunization of children and adults, including monitoring status
● Conduct primarily in-person patient care, with some virtual visits, to monitor the care being provided in a safe, efficient, and effective manner, ensuring the achievement of identified service goals
● Act as patient/community advocate
● Promote and facilitate patient independence
● Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team of health care professionals and health care services and providers to facilitate quality patient care
● Develop relationships with and coordinate care provision with other programs/services
● Provide health education and promotion and treatment services for patients, including individuals, families, care teams, groups, and communities. Areas of focus include high cholesterol, diabetes, proper puffer usage, and weight loss
● Identify the need for and provide chronic disease management for diabetes, COPD, and CHF
● Identify the need for, lead, and participate in Quality Improvement Cycles
● Document and report nursing care, in accordance with policies, protocols, procedures, and standards. Protect and secure all patient records and supplementary related documents by monitoring access and maintaining appropriate disposition of the documents/information to protect confidentiality. Provide patient data to specified healthcare professionals.
● Process and implement the care plans and orders of listed health professionals, in accordance with regulatory requirements, identifying and seeking clarification as necessary.
● Participate in case conferences, treatment plan reviews, and staff meetings.
● Contribute to a safe and healthy working environment by observing and promoting universal precautions and infection control procedures; removing obvious hazards; reporting faulty equipment, accidents, injuries and near misses; and participating in quality improvement.
● Ensure competency and professional practice standards are met, in line with the regulatory controls on practice
● Provide preventative care (cancer screening, chronic disease management and harm reduction services).
Qualifications
● Completion of a recognized Registered Nurse education program
● Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)
● Valid Class 5 Driver’s Licence
Preferences
● Three (3) years of recent primary care or community nursing experience considered an asset
● Experience with chronic disease management considered an asset
● Certifications in Sexual Health and/or Diabetes education considered an asset
Why Join Us?
- Make a Difference: Impact lives directly and drive health equity in a supportive community.
- Enjoy Life in BC: Live in the breathtaking West Kootenays, where outdoor adventures and close-knit communities await.
- Professional Growth: Work in a healthcare model that values learning and growth and gain experience delivering team-based care that meets the needs of the community.
- Benefits: Dental care, extended health care, Paid time off, Vision care
If you’d like to join the team in a meaningful role, apply today and help us build a healthier future for the Lower Columbia region! Please submit your cover letter and resume to Alison Kehler, Clinical Nurse Lead at [email protected].
Individuals will not be discriminated against because of disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, veteran status or any other protected status under law. Lower Columbia CHC Network Society is an organization where every voice matters
Pay: $93,600.00-$109,200.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Experience:
- Primary Care and/or Community : 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- nursing license in practice in British Columbia (required)
Work Location: In person
