Nurse 5

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Posting End Date: January 1, 2026

City: Winnipeg  

Employer: Winnipeg Regional Health Authority 

Site: WRHA Community Health Services   

Department / Unit: Public Health   

Job Stream: Clinical   

Union: MNU

Anticipated Start Date: 01/12/2026   

FTE:

Anticipated Shift: Days;Evenings;Weekends  

Work Arrangement: In Person  

Daily Hours Worked: 7.75  

Annual Base Hours: 2015  

Salary: $47.298, $49.107, $51.183, $53.196, $55.394, $57.547, $59.790, $62.182

Grow your career in the Winnipeg Health Region Our team provides a spectrum of health care services through an integrated network of sites, services and organizations. We're united by a shared commitment to excellent and equitable health care.

In the context of Winnipeg Integrated Services, the CDCC provides regional and PPH program leadership in immunization, travel health and prevention and management of communicable diseases and outbreaks within the Winnipeg Health Region. CDCC services are provincial in scope where WRHA has a provincial mandate to provide services; and participates in provincial, cross jurisdictional, national and international efforts when the issues are larger in scope.

The CDCC will:

• Apply key knowledge and critical thinking skills related to the public health sciences.
• Apply skills to assess and analyze information.
• Plan, implement and evaluate guidelines, policies, programs and/or practice.
• Build partnerships, collaborate and advocate.
• Manage services for diverse individuals, groups and communities.
• Communicate effectively with others.
• Provide leadership including:
  • Driving system and organizational results.
  • Building capacity and improving performance.
  • Problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Administrative and resource management.
• Build professional responsibility and accountability.

CDCCs may be required to work in locations other than her/his unit/worksite/office within the Population Public Health Program site.

• Minimum of five years relevant experience and demonstrated competency in public health, primary care or primary health care, population-level health promotion or community development is required, including applying principles of health promotion, primary prevention, population health, primary health care, harm reduction, and community development in public health, northern health or infection prevention and control settings.
• Demonstrated experience in promoting equity at a population level and community development with at high health-risk populations.
• Demonstrated experience that includes a significant portion of communicable disease control within a public health program that includes immunization and communicable disease management.

• Bachelor of Nursing required.
• Master's degree in directly related field (e.g., Nursing, Public Health, Community Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Education) preferred.
• Successful completion of Public Health Agency of Canada's Skills Enhancement for Public Health Program content modules preferred.
• Successful completion of a Public Health Agency of Canada Immunization Module preferred.
• Other relevant professional development may be considered, including but not limited to Canadian Community Health Nurses certification, Infection Prevention and Control Certification.

• Current College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba Registration (CRNM) in good standing required.
• Active participation in professional associations e.g. Association of Regulated Nurses of Manitoba (ARNM) preferred.
• Possession of a valid Manitoba Class 5 driver's license required.
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training requirements for this position shall be in accordance with the Employer policy.

• Demonstrated ability to:
  • Apply evidence informed practice.
  • Apply knowledge of regulations, legislative acts governing health care and scope of practice that guide the professional practice of various disciplines.
  • Think critically, analyzes, conceptualize and apply relevant knowledge to practice.
  • Facilitate staff working to their professional expectations of practice.
  • Solve-problems and organize work and projects.
  • Develop guidelines, procedures and participate in the policy process.
  • Apply effective interpersonal skills to develop working relationships and leadership in interdisciplinary, inter and intra-sectoral contexts.
  • Provide service to people experiencing diversity of income, education, culture, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical and mental health including addiction, and intellectual and physical ability.
  • Facilitate education and teach individuals and groups, applying education principles.
  • Lead, build teams, negotiate and resolve conflicts to build effective relationships with staff, community, professional and agency partners.
  • Manage uncertainty and lead and manage change.
  • Apply high levels of initiative and creativity in client service and system engagement.
  • Apply excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills including grant and report writing.
  • Work with a range of computer software applications (e.g., word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, email, Panorama, eChart, electronic medical record).
  • Scope of practice as documented in the Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA)/Registered Psychiatric Nurses Act.

• Physically capable of carrying out clinical skills such as administering vaccines, intra-dermal injection, phlebotomy.
• Physically capable of providing service in a wide variety of community settings under varying weather and environmental conditions.
• Must be able to lift and carry equipment weighing up to 6.8 kg.
• Access to a reliable motor vehicle suitable for all environmental conditions.
• Subject to immunizations as per WRHA Policy.

If there are no applicants meeting the posted qualifications, the Employer MAY CONSIDER an applicant who does not meet the posted qualifications

This position requires a current satisfactory Criminal Records Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search), Child Abuse Registry Check and Adult Abuse Registry Check as conditions of employment. The successful candidate will be responsible for any service charges incurred. A security check is considered current if it was obtained no more than six (6) months prior to the start of employment.

Please note that an employee is not permitted to hold two or more positions across the WRHA legal entity that combine to equal more than 1.0 EFT. The WRHA legal entity includes Churchill Health Centre, Deer Lodge Centre, Golden West Centennial Lodge, Grace Hospital, Middlechurch Home of Winnipeg, Pan Am Clinic, River Park Gardens, Victoria General Hospital, WRHA corporate programs, and WRHA community health services.

Interviewed candidates may be called upon to participate in a skills assessment.

Any application received after the closing time will not be included in the competition.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request during the assessment and selection process.

Manitoba healthcare employers, in partnership with the Indigenous community, are committed to increasing the representation of Indigenous People within all levels of our workforce. Indigenous applicants are encouraged to apply and to voluntarily self-identify as being of Indigenous descent in their cover letter/application.