RN – Community Health Nurse

Job Category: Work For Foreigners In Canada
Job Title: RN – Community Health Nurse
Location: Halifax, NS
Shift: Permanent
Wage: $24.00 hourly / 30 hours per week

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

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 Nurses
• 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
• 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

Security clearances

• A security clearance and/or vulnerable sector screening might be required for this position.
• Our recruiter will walk you through the security clearance requirementand process.

Who can apply to this job?

The employer accepts applications from:

• Canadian citizens and permanent or temporary residents of Canada.
• Other candidates with or without a valid Canadian work permit.

How to apply
Online: Apply On Company WebSite

Source: ca.indeed.com

Advertised until
2025-04-08