Posted 2 months ago
MOSH Registered Nurse - Casual (External)
@ North End Community Health Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Overview
North End Community Health Centre is hiring a casual Registered Nurse for its Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH) team in Halifax and Dartmouth. The nurse delivers primary care, health promotion and harm reduction support to people experiencing homelessness, street involvement or insecure housing, including outreach to client homes and community sites. The posting states a casual position and external applicants are considered.
Pay:
$40.55–$49.99 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Deliver primary care to people experiencing homelessness through outreach
- Conduct nursing assessments and health education
- Support Managed Alcohol Program and Overlook harm reduction housing
- Consult as a nurse at program level
Requirements summary:
- Registered Nurse designation
- Advanced nursing skills in community outreach
- Harm reduction and social determinants of health framework
- Collaborative interprofessional practice
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-20
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-15
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Nursing & personal care |
| Travel | air: none · ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Client sites, Home, Outdoors |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Licences & certifications | RN |
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North End Community Health Centre
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Job Purpose:
Reporting to the MOSH Manager, the MOSH Nurse is a member of the Mobile outreach street health (MOSH) team who delivers primary care to people experiencing homelessness and street involvement. Also supporting Harm Reduction programs including Managed Alcohol Program and the Overlook supported harm reduction housing program.
This position is an advanced nursing position in a community outreach setting, including various NECHC community sites and client homes. The nurse works as a collaborative member of the MOSH health team, but direct care delivery may also occur independently. Services and activities that promote wellness, maintain health, and prevent disease or serious exacerbation of disease will be emphasized. Using social determinants of health and harm reduction framework, this is accomplished through nursing assessments, health promotion, and health education counselling and harm reduction. The nurse will need to assess, plan, and implement appropriate nursing interventions for both the individual and consult as a nurse at a program level.
Strong collaboration is emphasized when working with shared clients between all practitioners across programs within the NECHC and with community agencies. The nurse is expected to deliver relationship- based health care through outreach to community locations in Halifax and Dartmouth being attentive to clients’ needs and changing trends.
The following are the main objectives of the program:
- To increase access to effective and equitable primary health care to community members across the life span who are homeless, street involved, and insecurely housed.
- To improve the health status of marginalized and underserved populations.
- To create a collaborative environment in which information, knowledge, and resources are shared among community service, health care, academic, and government organizations.
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