Nurse Practitioner - Black Health Team

JOB POSTING INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

JOB TITLE:

Nurse Praconer – Black Health Team

LOCATION:

North York (940 Sheppard Ave West), Downtown (36B Prince Arthur Ave) & Scarborough (various)

FTE STATUS:

Flexible: 0.4 FTE to 1.0 FTE

DURATION OF POSITION:

Permanent

REPORTING TO:

Director of Community Health Services

Salary Range

$115,527.25 to $128,372.72 (pro-rated to FTE Status)

BARGAINING UNIT

OPSEU Local 5115

We’re Hiring: Nurse Praconer – Black Health Team

Are you a Black Nurse Praconer who is passionate about reproducve jusce, health equity, and primary care for youth? Do you want to work in a dynamic, youth-centered environment where your identy, lived experience, and clinical experse can make a real impact?

Planned Parenthood Toronto (PPT) is looking for a Nurse Praconer (RN – Extended Class). This role will be part of both our general pracce and a core member of our Black Health Team, an iniave that is dedicated to improving access to inclusive, community-driven primary and sexual and reproducve health care for Black youth.

The NP works as part of an interdisciplinary clinical care team providing primary healthcare to equitydeserving youth from across Toronto. As a core member of our Black Health team, you’ll help break down systemic barriers by providing holisc, trauma-informed care that centers Black youth, parcularly those navigang intersecng oppressions related to race, gender identy, and socioeconomic status. The work of the Black Health team is rooted in reproducve jusce principles, working to decrease the systemic barriers and reproducve trauma Black youth experience.

We are flexible! While this posion can be full-me, we need the NP in this posion to work a minimum of 15 hours per week – making this a great employment opportunity for someone interested in working part-me.

ABOUT PPT’s Black Health Team

The Black Health team aims to:

• Expand early access to culturally responsive sexual and reproducve health services through youth-focused clinics in downtown Toronto, North York and Scarborough.
• Improve health literacy and empower Black youth (including Black non-binary, and trans youth) with tools to navigate chronic condions like endometriosis, PMOS, fibroids, HIV/STBBIs, and mental health challenges.
• Build supporve networks through the leadership of our Black Youth Advisory Commitee and partnerships with agencies like Black Creek CHC, TAIBU, and North York Women’s Shelter.
• Connect youth to holisc care, offering seamless atachment or referral to primary and specialized services.

ABOUT US

Planned Parenthood Toronto (PPT) is a fully accredited community health centre that provides primary health care services to youth 13 to 29 years as well as health promoon programming, educaon, training and research to improve the health and well-being of Toronto’s diverse communies. For more informaon about PPT and our programs and services, visit our website: htps://ppt.on.ca.

ROLE OVERVIEW

In this role, the Nurse Praconer (RN – Extended Class) will provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and gender-affirming primary care to youth aged 13–29, with a focus on sexual and reproducve health, mental health, and gender-affirming clinical services. The ideal candidate brings a strong equity lens and clinical experse rooted in reproducve jusce, understands the systemic barriers faced by Black youth and communies, and is commited to delivering inclusive, anoppressive care. PPT is also commited to support NP learning - this posion is an excellent opportunity to build your skills related to IUD and Implant inserons/removals, Medical Aboron, and Gender Affirming Care.

This posion is part of Planned Parenthood Toronto’s Black Health team – an iniave focused on improving access, engagement, and health outcomes for Black youth through community partnerships, integrated services, and evidence-based approaches. Services are delivered at PPT’s main site, at our North York Satellite Site, and in outreach sengs in North York and Scarborough.

Reporng to the Director of Community Health Services, in this role you will:

• As part of an interprofessional care team, deliver comprehensive, client-centered care inperson, virtually, and by phone, including primary care, contracepon, IUD/implant procedures, aboron care, prenatal care, HIV/STBBI tesng and treatment, and menstrual health support.
• Provide gender-affirming care including hormone therapy iniaon and puberty suppression for trans and non-binary youth (training provided as needed).
• Address mental health concerns through short-term intervenons and support navigaon to internal or external services as appropriate.
• Work collaboravely within an interdisciplinary primary health care team and consult with external providers as needed to coordinate care beyond your scope of pracce.
• With support from the Health Equity Health Promoter and other members of the Black Health team, deliver group programming focused on sexual and reproducve health issues that disproporonately impact Black youth and communies.
• Document all client interacons clearly, accurately, and confidenally in the electronic medical record (EMR), adhering to clinical and regulatory standards.
• Parcipate in team meengs, case conferences, and interdisciplinary planning to support coordinated and holisc client care.
• Collaborate with community partners such as Black Creek Community Health Centre, North York Women’s Shelter, and other community-based organizaons to support effecve outreach, care connuity, and culturally safe service delivery.
• Acvely contribute to quality improvement processes, including chart audits, protocol development, policy review, and accreditaon efforts.
• Parcipate in research and evaluaon acvies aligned with PPT’s goals to improve access and outcomes for Black youth and guide evidence-informed pracces.
• Supervise and mentor nursing and allied health students, contribung to a learning focused, inclusive organizaonal culture.
• Provide clinical input to the development and refinement of internal pracce tools, protocols, and health informaon materials that are inclusive, accurate, and accessible.
• Parcipate in internal equity iniaves and contribute to the development of health programs that reflect and respond to the needs of underserved youth, including those who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, newcomers, or system involved.
• Stay current on best pracces and regulatory standards through ongoing professional development, with a focus on reproducve jusce, an-oppressive care, and youth health equity.

QUALIFICATIONS

We’re looking for someone who:

• Is a Registered Nurse in the Extended Class (RN(EC)) in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Has 3+ years of Nurse Praconer experience in primary care, community health, or sexual health
• Idenfies as Black, including those with intersecng Indigenous and/or other racialized idenes, in alignment with the focus and goals of the Black Heath Team.
• Is experienced in providing an-oppressive, trauma-informed, 2SLGBTQ+ inclusive care.
• Thorough understanding of the impacts of systemic oppression, including an-Black and an-Indigenous racism, on youth mental health and well-being.
• Brings strong clinical skills in contracepon, aboron, STBBI treatment, mental health, and/or gender-affirming care
• Clear commitment to sexual and reproducve rights, health equity, and youth posive, 2SLGBTQ posive, sex posive, and sex work posive pracce
• Strong ability to work collaboravely in an interdisciplinary, community-based team environment.
• Excellent writen and verbal communicaon skills.
• Proficiency with electronic medical records and comfort working in a digital environment.
• Can work flexibly (two evenings/week) and travel to satellite and outreach sites in North York and Scarborough.

APPLICATION PROCESS

This posting will remain open until the postiion is filled. Please email a letter of interest and resume by to:

Hiring Committee – NP-BRHI 2026

Email: [email protected]

Please indicate in your application if you are seeking part-me or full-me employment.

PPT is pro-vaccination and requires all new hires to PPT to provide proof of up-to-date vaccination against COVID-19 within 8 weeks of their hire.

PPT is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and to building an organization that reflects the communities we serve. Due to the nature of this specific area of PPT's culturally based health services, PPT encourages applications from persons who are members of Black communities (Section 24 (1) (a), Special Employment, Ontario Human Rights Code). Those applicants who self-identify as such in their cover letter will be interviewed as a priority.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

PPT welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates selected for an interview and for all aspects of the selection process. If an applicant or a successful candidate requests an accommodation, we will discuss their needs with them and make adjustments to support them. We regret to inform you that PPT’s main site is not a wheelchair accessible space.

Artificial intelligence will not be used to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position

Please note that as a condition of employment, the successful applicant must complete a Criminal Record Check. The presence of a criminal record may not necessarily preclude employment.

PPT is a unionized environment under OPSEU Local 5115.