Job Order Detail

Description

Position #: V44384

Expected Start Date: March 02, 2026

Union: SUN

Facility: Mental Health & Addiction Services

City/Town: Regina

Department: Addiction Serv Res Care Unit & Trtmt Facil-Brief & Social Detox

Type: Casual (x3); No guaranteed hours

FTE: 0
Shift Information: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, Stats
Hours of Work: 11.78 hour shifts

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: Yes

Salary or Pay Band:  Pay Band Nurse B $42.040 to $52.440

Travel Required: No

Job Description: As a member of an interdisciplinary team and under the supervision of the Manager/Nurse C, the incumbent will be responsible for creating a therapeutic environment in which you will deliver a high standard of care to patients who are diagnosed with substance dependence and Mental Health concerns. The inpatient adult detox Addictions Nurse will provide triage, assessment, substance withdrawal screening and medication administration/management. Additionally, mental health and suicide risk assessments will be required and safety planning for clients will be completed. As an Addictions nurse, naloxone training will be required. The Addiction Nurse will provide formal pharmacological education and addiction medicine education to Pharmacies, Labs, Emergency Departments, Physicians and SHA colleagues or community partners assisting with continuum of care for clients.
Responsibilities include providing individual counselling which may include brief interventions, ongoing medication management counselling and crisis counselling. The Addiction Nurse will assist clients with complex presentations, independently assess and determine treatment while utilizing their clinical skills and expertise to direct unregulated health care workers and/or care providers. The incumbent will provide medication education to patients. The incumbent will perform other nursing duties as requir...
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