Call Auntie is hiring a Nurse Practitioner!

Background

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

The active partnerships that Call Auntie maintains provide us with clinical service providers, supplies, referral pathways, space, and everything that makes what we do possible! This includes Seventh Generation Midwives Toronto, Toronto Birth Centre, Inner City Health Associates Indigenous Program, Auduzhe Mino Nesewinong, among others. 

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

Willing to complete a Vulnerable Sector Check

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, 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/independent work skills including self management, initiative and the ability to set work plans with minimal supervision

Confidence providing care in non-typical community based settings

Ability and willingness to travel around the city 

Process:

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

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 22 at 5 pm

3. Interviews will take place from January 23rd to January 29th with an expected start date of February 2nd, 2026