Registered Nurse-M Diabetes Educ Progrm
About the role
Position: Registered Nurse
Dept: Diabetes Management Centre, Outpatient Medicine
Posting ID:
Role Level: ONA CPS04.2 $39.07 - $56.00
Status: Temporary Full Time (up to 18 months)
Site: Mississauga Hospital
Shift: Days, Evenings
Posted: August 14, 2025
Internal Deadline: August 21, 2025
Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Center at Humber. Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Our Mission: A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community
Our Values: Compassion, Excellence, Courage
Our Goals: Quality, Access, Sustainability
Our Enablers: People, Education, Innovation, Research
Position Summary:
- Responsible for development of nursing care plans and counselling for patients with diabetes and/or co-morbidities such as renal, cardiovascular disease and mental illness
- Responsible and accountable for decisions and actions in the provision and management of nursing care for patients with diabetes in a collaborative inter-professional team environment
- Broad understanding of resources available in the community to help support caseload of patients through critical thinking and problem solving to ensure best practices are maintained
- Assist and support clients to gain the knowledge, skills, attitude and self-awareness necessary to effectively manage his/her diabetes
- Monthly rotations in the inpatient units at the Mississauga Hospital to support bedside teaching for diabetes and safe discharge.
- Function as a part of a multidisciplinary team, and act as a resource for other health care providers and the community
- Using a variety of teaching methods, incorporating the principles of adult education and a variety of client engagement or empowerment modalities to facilitate behaviour change (ie motivational interviewing, stages of change )
- Facilitates group education programs for patients as needed
- Develops appropriate education materials to meet the needs of the clients
- Assists in program planning and evaluation
Key Qualifications:
- Certified Diabetes Educator
- Membership in the Diabetes Educator Section of Diabetes Canada preferred
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in counselling clients with diabetes on an individual and group basis
- Good working knowledge of diabetes and comorbidities through the lifecycle, adult teaching principles and patient engagement strategies
- Good working knowledge of diabetes medications, including insulin
- Highly effective decision making, problem solving and organizational skills combined with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written
- Proficiency in computers, Microsoft Office and experience with electronic medical records and good keyboarding skills are essential
- Reliable, flexible, creative professional, able to work effectively and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team approach required
- Experience using medical directives an asset
- Additional language an asset
- Positive attendance and work record essential
- Member in good standing with College of Nurses of Ontario
To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website: www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
Internal Candidates who believe they possess the necessary qualifications and experience for this position and who have been in their current position for at least six (6) months are encouraged to apply.
Candidates are selected on the basis of their skill, ability, experience and qualifications.
Where these factors are relatively equal seniority shall govern providing the successful applicant.
Trillium Health Partners’ (THP) is an equal opportunity employer who values the importance of antiracism work and is committed to integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion best practices throughout THP operations, policies and culture. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage all applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code based on race, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nations, Métis or Inuk/Inuit person to consider this opportunity.
In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.
All personal information is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Trillium Health Partners is identified under the French Language Services Act.
We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
About Trillium Health Partners
Trillium Health Partners is a leading hospital with an outstanding record of performance, fiscal responsibility and quality patient care. The hospital encompasses three main sites – Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga Hospital and Queensway Health Centre – offering the full range of acute care hospital services, as well as a variety of community-based, specialized programs.
Our intention is to achieve the highest quality of care that is easily accessible for our community, at the lowest cost. We are committed to creating an exceptional experience for everyone who walks through our doors.
As our diverse community continues to grow and age, and as more people are living with chronic diseases, we’re taking into account the inevitable changes on the horizon. We know that to continue to deliver exceptional patient care, we must think and act differently, and take a new and innovative approach to the delivery of health care. We envision a new kind of health care for a healthier community – an inter-connected system of care that is organized around the patient, both inside the hospital and beyond its walls. Through partnership, working in a coordinated way across the system, we can meet the needs of our patients and continue to provide outstanding, sustainable quality patient care.
As partners in creating a new kind of health care, we are Better Together.
Registered Nurse-M Diabetes Educ Progrm
About the role
Position: Registered Nurse
Dept: Diabetes Management Centre, Outpatient Medicine
Posting ID:
Role Level: ONA CPS04.2 $39.07 - $56.00
Status: Temporary Full Time (up to 18 months)
Site: Mississauga Hospital
Shift: Days, Evenings
Posted: August 14, 2025
Internal Deadline: August 21, 2025
Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Center at Humber. Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Our Mission: A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community
Our Values: Compassion, Excellence, Courage
Our Goals: Quality, Access, Sustainability
Our Enablers: People, Education, Innovation, Research
Position Summary:
- Responsible for development of nursing care plans and counselling for patients with diabetes and/or co-morbidities such as renal, cardiovascular disease and mental illness
- Responsible and accountable for decisions and actions in the provision and management of nursing care for patients with diabetes in a collaborative inter-professional team environment
- Broad understanding of resources available in the community to help support caseload of patients through critical thinking and problem solving to ensure best practices are maintained
- Assist and support clients to gain the knowledge, skills, attitude and self-awareness necessary to effectively manage his/her diabetes
- Monthly rotations in the inpatient units at the Mississauga Hospital to support bedside teaching for diabetes and safe discharge.
- Function as a part of a multidisciplinary team, and act as a resource for other health care providers and the community
- Using a variety of teaching methods, incorporating the principles of adult education and a variety of client engagement or empowerment modalities to facilitate behaviour change (ie motivational interviewing, stages of change )
- Facilitates group education programs for patients as needed
- Develops appropriate education materials to meet the needs of the clients
- Assists in program planning and evaluation
Key Qualifications:
- Certified Diabetes Educator
- Membership in the Diabetes Educator Section of Diabetes Canada preferred
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in counselling clients with diabetes on an individual and group basis
- Good working knowledge of diabetes and comorbidities through the lifecycle, adult teaching principles and patient engagement strategies
- Good working knowledge of diabetes medications, including insulin
- Highly effective decision making, problem solving and organizational skills combined with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written
- Proficiency in computers, Microsoft Office and experience with electronic medical records and good keyboarding skills are essential
- Reliable, flexible, creative professional, able to work effectively and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team approach required
- Experience using medical directives an asset
- Additional language an asset
- Positive attendance and work record essential
- Member in good standing with College of Nurses of Ontario
To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website: www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
Internal Candidates who believe they possess the necessary qualifications and experience for this position and who have been in their current position for at least six (6) months are encouraged to apply.
Candidates are selected on the basis of their skill, ability, experience and qualifications.
Where these factors are relatively equal seniority shall govern providing the successful applicant.
Trillium Health Partners’ (THP) is an equal opportunity employer who values the importance of antiracism work and is committed to integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion best practices throughout THP operations, policies and culture. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage all applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code based on race, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nations, Métis or Inuk/Inuit person to consider this opportunity.
In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.
All personal information is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Trillium Health Partners is identified under the French Language Services Act.
We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
About Trillium Health Partners
Trillium Health Partners is a leading hospital with an outstanding record of performance, fiscal responsibility and quality patient care. The hospital encompasses three main sites – Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga Hospital and Queensway Health Centre – offering the full range of acute care hospital services, as well as a variety of community-based, specialized programs.
Our intention is to achieve the highest quality of care that is easily accessible for our community, at the lowest cost. We are committed to creating an exceptional experience for everyone who walks through our doors.
As our diverse community continues to grow and age, and as more people are living with chronic diseases, we’re taking into account the inevitable changes on the horizon. We know that to continue to deliver exceptional patient care, we must think and act differently, and take a new and innovative approach to the delivery of health care. We envision a new kind of health care for a healthier community – an inter-connected system of care that is organized around the patient, both inside the hospital and beyond its walls. Through partnership, working in a coordinated way across the system, we can meet the needs of our patients and continue to provide outstanding, sustainable quality patient care.
As partners in creating a new kind of health care, we are Better Together.