clinic nurse jobs in Toronto, ON

Job Title: Registered Nurse

Salary: $ 41.82/hour or $86,985/annual

Hours: 1.0 FTE = 40 hrs/week. Flexible schedule. 4 weeks paid vacation.

Location: 525 Dundas St E & 90 Sherbourne St, client home visits, community visits, and accompaniment to appointments. Occasional work from home.

Start: Jan 4, 2027 (negotiable) - Permanent position.

Vacancy: This posting is for an existing vacancy

Background:

Call Auntie is an urban Indigenous-led not-for-profit organization strengthening the health and wellbeing of the Toronto Indigenous Community by providing low barrier access to culturally safe health care, information, and referrals, to Indigenous Community Health Workers, Midwives, Doctors and Nurse Practitioners. With a strong focus on sexual and reproductive health, and wrap-around support, Call Auntie draws on Indigenous extended kinship systems of support to promote self-determination and fiercely advocate for family integrity throughout all our programs.

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Role Description:

Call Auntie is committed to mentorship and sustainability in practice. The Registered Nurse will work closely with the clinical team of Midwives and a Nurse Practitioner to provide culturally safe direct clinic care, facilitate health care access and support the clinical program and activities of Call Auntie. This includes a mix of ongoing and episodic clinical care to individuals and families using a client-centered model of Indigenous approaches to harm reduction, community building and community based supports. You will support the logistics and growth of the clinical program which includes a commitment to outreach community nursing, Indigenous public health responses, and working to connect with the hard to reach population. In this role you will be supporting a diverse community of Indigenous people who:

• Use different types of substances with varying degrees of access to support and safe supply, who may be experiencing houselessness or are street involved
• Seek culturally safe mental health care, including addictions support
• Navigate parenting supports, including child protection involvement
• Face challenges and barriers to consistent and reliable forms of safe communication, health care, community support, encouragement, and love

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Provide culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Metis community members
• Work in collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team, Indigenous and allied service organizations to ensure continuity of care and seamless team based care
• Conduct comprehensive health assessments of Indigenous individuals and their families, throughout the lifespan
• Assess episodic and chronic conditions common to primary health care
• Ensure that standards of client care are maintained according to accepted ON College of Nurses Standards of Practice, the ON Regulated Health Professions Act, and Call Auntie policies
• Participate in the development and implementation of public health policies/strategies and broader determinants of Indigenous health
• Facilitate Indigenous client access to broader health and social services through Navigation, Facilitation, and Advocacy
• Promote client self-determination and model healthy interpersonal relationships including creating a supportive environment for problem solving and collaboration
• Participate in on-going self-reflective practice as an individual and team: mentorship, interdisciplinary case reviews, teamwork, working in partnership
• Other responsibilities as determined in collaboration with Call Auntie team

Qualifications

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario in good standing.
• Evidence of liability protection/malpractice insurance.
• 3-5 years experience working with Indigenous people in any capacity, including gender-diverse Indigenous community members (2SLGBTQIA) and urban relatives
• Work and / or lived experience in areas of mental health and/or addictions health access, substance use and/or harm reduction an asset
• Relevant life experience: land based work, cultural reclamation and revitalization, community organizing, harm reduction, activism
• Cultural Safety Training is an asset, but not required to start position
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience accessing, navigating and advocating in health systems and institutions
• Strong capacity to manage crises, be resourceful, and problem solve
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Knowledge of Indigenous Harm Reduction Principles and Reproductive Justice
• Emotional readiness and preparedness for vicarious trauma, witnessing and holding space for disclosures about violence, grief and colonization and disconnection from family, language, land and culture
• Balance of collaboration and independent work skills including self management, initiative and the ability to set work plans with minimal supervision or oversight
• Confidence providing care in non-typical community based settings
• Ability and willingness to travel around the city
• Willing to complete a Vulnerable Sector Check

Call Auntie encourages all First Nations, Inuit and Métis people to self-identify in their cover letter and their connections to the community.

Call Auntie works to create a healthy work environment based on anti-racism and anti-oppression, in line with Indigenous kinship systems, our different Nations teachings and the Ontario Human Rights Code. We encourage Indigenous individuals, all women, Two-Spirit, genderqueer, trans and non-binary individuals to apply, including racialized people, and individuals with disabilities.

AI technology is not used in the process of reviewing applications. Only successful applicants will be contacted for interviews. Accommodations will be provided throughout the application process. Please let us know what you may require by emailing

Process:

• Submit cover letter and resume in document to: - subject: Call Auntie HR: RN
• Applications will be accepted until Monday, November 16, 2026 at 5pm Eastern
• Interviews will take place from November 23-December 4 with an expected start date of January 4, 2027 (negotiable).

Pay: $86,000.00-$86,985.00 per year

Benefits:

• Wellness program

Work Location: In person