Nurse Practitioner

Job Title: Nurse Practitioner

Salary: $70.00/hour  to $75.00/hour - based on qualifications and experience

Hours: 32 hrs/week (0.8 FTE), flexible schedule, mostly daytime hours, occasional evening or weekend hours 

Location: Call Auntie

525 Dundas St E & 90 Sherbourne St, occasional work from home, client home visits and accompaniment to appointments

Vacancy: This posting is for a new position

Estimated Start: Jan 26 - Feb 2, 2026 - permanent  ***contingent on funding

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 Registered Nurses. 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.

The active partnerships that Call Auntie maintains provides us with clinical service providers, supplies, referral pathways, space, and everything that makes what we do possible! This includes but not limited to; Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto, Toronto Birth Centre, Inner City Health Associates Indigenous Program, Auduzhe Mino Nesewinong. 

Role Description: 

The Nurse Practitioner will work closely with the Call Auntie Clinical Team to provide team based culturally safe direct clinic care, facilitate health care access, and support the clinical activities of Call Auntie. This includes a mix of ongoing and episodic primary 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 strong focus on sexual and reproductive health, Indigenous public health responses, and working to connect with a hard to reach population. In this role you will be supporting Indigenous people who are:

• Using different types of substances with varying degrees of access to support and safe supply, who may be experiencing houselessness or are street involved 
• Seeking culturally safe mental health care, including addictions support
• Navigating parenting supports, including child protection involvement 
• Facing 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 and manage episodic and chronic conditions commonly seen in primary health care 
• Assess the need for and write orders for prescriptions, laboratory, and diagnostic tests within the NP scope of practice
• Ensure that standards of client care are maintained according to accepted College of Nurses Standards of Practice, the Regulated Health Professions Act, and Call Auntie policies
• Participate in the development of policies/strategies in the interest of public health and broader determinants of Indigenous health and wellbeing
• Facilitate Indigenous client access to broader health and social services through Navigation, and Advocacy
• Promote client self-determination and model healthy interpersonal relationships including creating a supportive environment for problem solving
• 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/Nurse Practitioner (NP) (EC) with the College of Nurses of Ontario in good standing. 
• Evidence of liability protection/malpractice insurance. 
• Minimum 3 years NP experience in primary care/direct carer provision role with complex or at-risk communities
• Preferably, minimum 3 years experience working with Indigenous people, 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 
• 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  
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving skills as it relates to addressing specific and individual barriers that program participants may face 
• Cultural Safety Training is an asset, but not required to start position
• Strong capacity to manage crises, be resourceful, and problem solve 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
• Knowledge of Indigenous Harm Reduction Principles and Reproductive Justice 
• 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 cmelin@sgmt.ca 

Process:

1. Submit cover letter and resume in one document to: cmelin@sgmt.ca - subject: Call Auntie HR: NP
2. Applications will be accepted until January 15th at 5pm
3. Interviews will take place from January 12th to January 23rd  with an expected start date of January 26th - February 2, 2026