Registered Practical Nurse (RPN)- Complex Continuing Care / Post Acute
About the role
Company Bio
Embark on a fulfilling career journey with BGH, where innovation meets compassion in healthcare. Join our dynamic team at the forefront of medical excellence, with a focus on Chemistry, Hematology, Transfusion Medicine, Microbiology, and Anatomical Pathology. Elevate your skills in our cutting-edge Point of Care department, where professionals like MLAs, MLTs, Senior MLTs, Charge MLTs, and PAs collaborate seamlessly. Embrace the excitement of 24/7 core lab operations, spanning days, nights, evenings, weekends, and STATs. Be part of our dedicated Microbiology and Histology teams, where your commitment to community care truly shines. At BGH, we're not just a workplace – we're a family, united by cohesiveness, professionalism, and a shared passion for making a positive impact. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare, where every day brings new opportunities for growth and success!"
At Quinte Health, guided by our core values of Imagine It's You, Value Everyone, We All Make a Difference, and Stronger Together, our family of four hospitals holds a central role in the mission to enhance lives and foster healthier communities. We operate as a cohesive team, uniting all our hospitals, to deliver local and regional healthcare services. In partnership with our communities, we strive to improve access to high-quality care, right in their own neighborhoods.
Our sense of fulfillment is deeply rooted in the impactful work we do, a sentiment shared by our dynamic teams of staff, dedicated physicians, and committed volunteers. They not only care passionately for our patients but also for each other, embodying our core values at every turn.
We don't just serve our communities, we actively contribute to them. Quinte Health is woven into the fabric of our local landscape, with our team members residing, raising their families, and often retiring right here in the communities they cherish. We are on a constant lookout for compassionate and dedicated individuals to join our team. Our diverse array of exciting roles encompasses positions that span multiple hospitals, as well as opportunities situated within a single hospital. Join us as we live out our values in providing exceptional healthcare close to home.
Position Summary
Are you a dedicated and compassionate Registered Practical Nurse looking to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and their families? Join our team on the Complex Continuing Care (CCC) Unit at Belleville General Hospital and play a pivotal role in helping individuals with complex medical needs achieve their health and recovery goals.
Located on Sills 4, our 18-bed CCC unit is a dynamic environment that offers transitional care for patients with diverse medical conditions. Whether providing restorative care, facilitating slow-stream rehabilitation, or delivering supportive end-of-life care, our mission is to provide exceptional, patient-centered care while preparing individuals for their next chapter—whether that’s returning home or transitioning to a supportive living environment.
As a valued member of our interdisciplinary team, you will collaborate with experts in nursing, recreation therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, spiritual care, and nutritional services. Together, we deliver tailored, holistic care designed to meet each patient’s unique physical, cognitive, and emotional needs.
What You Can Expect:
Purposeful Work: Help patients achieve independence, improve quality of life, or receive compassionate end-of-life care.
Specialized Programs: Contribute to our Slow Stream Rehab (SSR) program, providing low-intensity therapy to meet long-term rehabilitation goals.
Supportive Team: Work alongside a collaborative and skilled interdisciplinary team in a positive, patient-focused environment.
Required
- Current Certificate of Registration in good standing, or eligible for registration from the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- Current CPR, BLS, or BCLS certificate.
- Capable of coping with a physically demanding workload. (Physical Demands Analysis (PDA) available to review)
Duties
- Provision of care for patients within an interprofessional environment, including assessment, treatment, teaching and education.
- Performs acts requiring specialized knowledge, skills and judgement necessary for care of acute medical patients.
- Teaching and coaching to patients and families.
- Maintains nursing records in accordance with College of Nurses Standards.
- Practicing in compliance with provincial legislation, hospital policy and procedures, professional regulatory standards and best practices within the nursing profession.
- Maintaining professional competence by completing regular professional development including annul training and education as indicated.
- Participates in unit/dept. and hospital quality improvement initiatives.
- Adheres to a safe and healthy workplace and maintains a safe and healthy work environment through attendance at educational programs, use of established mechanisms for injuries and hazards and adheres to health and safety related policy and procedures.
- Adapts and adheres to the values of Quinte Health while promoting and advocating for an enhanced patient experience.
- Other duties as assigned.
Equal Opportunity
We thank all interested candidates for their response, however, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted. Quinte Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to meeting needs under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Our Recruitment process follows the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act in order to provide a fair and equitable process for all candidates. Applicants requiring accommodation through the recruitment/interview process are encouraged to contact the Human Resources Department at 613-969-7400 x2577 or humanresources@quintehealth.ca for assistance.
Physical Demands Analysis
Strength
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Required Sporadically – average under 30 pounds lifting, carrying, and pushing/pulling.
-
Required in extreme emergency – 100 pounds.
Mobility
-
Required Often – standing.
-
Required Frequently – sitting, walking, on hard floor surface.
-
Required Occasionally - stooping, lateral bending, foot activation, kneeling, bending.
-
Required Rarely - crouching, squatting.
Dexterity
- Required Frequently – both hands for reaching, reaching above shoulder, fine finger movement, foot action, pinching, gripping/grasping, and eye/hand coordination.
About Quinte Health
Quinte Health provides a wide range of high quality health care services to 160,000 people living in the 7000 square kilometre region of Prince Edward and Hastings Counties and the southeast portion of Northumberland County.
Care is provided through four hospitals - Belleville General Hospital, North Hastings Hospital, Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital and Trenton Memorial Hospital - and includes four emergency departments, operating rooms at three sites, a rehabilitation day hospital, children's treatment centre, ambulatory care clinics, community mental health programs and a range of diagnostic services. There are inpatient beds for acute medical patients, intensive care, obstetrics, paediatrics, mental health, complex continuing care, rehabilitation and surgery.
Our 1700 staff members, along with 364 professional staff with privileges including doctors, nurse practitioners and mid-wives, provide primary and secondary patient care. Through partnership and innovation, the teams at the four hospitals of Quinte Health provide exceptional health care services to the residents of the area, close to home.
Our vision over the next five years is to foster healthier, more connected people and communities. We will achieve this by working even more closely between our teams, hospitals and partners to provide care as close to home as possible and to help build a stronger health care system for the future. The pandemic has reinforced the value of teamwork and collaboration, and that we are indeed stronger together. Many of the challenges facing hospitals today can only be solved in true partnership.
Our Values: Imagine it's you, Value everyone, Stronger Together, and We all make a difference.
Registered Practical Nurse (RPN)- Complex Continuing Care / Post Acute
About the role
Company Bio
Embark on a fulfilling career journey with BGH, where innovation meets compassion in healthcare. Join our dynamic team at the forefront of medical excellence, with a focus on Chemistry, Hematology, Transfusion Medicine, Microbiology, and Anatomical Pathology. Elevate your skills in our cutting-edge Point of Care department, where professionals like MLAs, MLTs, Senior MLTs, Charge MLTs, and PAs collaborate seamlessly. Embrace the excitement of 24/7 core lab operations, spanning days, nights, evenings, weekends, and STATs. Be part of our dedicated Microbiology and Histology teams, where your commitment to community care truly shines. At BGH, we're not just a workplace – we're a family, united by cohesiveness, professionalism, and a shared passion for making a positive impact. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare, where every day brings new opportunities for growth and success!"
At Quinte Health, guided by our core values of Imagine It's You, Value Everyone, We All Make a Difference, and Stronger Together, our family of four hospitals holds a central role in the mission to enhance lives and foster healthier communities. We operate as a cohesive team, uniting all our hospitals, to deliver local and regional healthcare services. In partnership with our communities, we strive to improve access to high-quality care, right in their own neighborhoods.
Our sense of fulfillment is deeply rooted in the impactful work we do, a sentiment shared by our dynamic teams of staff, dedicated physicians, and committed volunteers. They not only care passionately for our patients but also for each other, embodying our core values at every turn.
We don't just serve our communities, we actively contribute to them. Quinte Health is woven into the fabric of our local landscape, with our team members residing, raising their families, and often retiring right here in the communities they cherish. We are on a constant lookout for compassionate and dedicated individuals to join our team. Our diverse array of exciting roles encompasses positions that span multiple hospitals, as well as opportunities situated within a single hospital. Join us as we live out our values in providing exceptional healthcare close to home.
Position Summary
Are you a dedicated and compassionate Registered Practical Nurse looking to make a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and their families? Join our team on the Complex Continuing Care (CCC) Unit at Belleville General Hospital and play a pivotal role in helping individuals with complex medical needs achieve their health and recovery goals.
Located on Sills 4, our 18-bed CCC unit is a dynamic environment that offers transitional care for patients with diverse medical conditions. Whether providing restorative care, facilitating slow-stream rehabilitation, or delivering supportive end-of-life care, our mission is to provide exceptional, patient-centered care while preparing individuals for their next chapter—whether that’s returning home or transitioning to a supportive living environment.
As a valued member of our interdisciplinary team, you will collaborate with experts in nursing, recreation therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, spiritual care, and nutritional services. Together, we deliver tailored, holistic care designed to meet each patient’s unique physical, cognitive, and emotional needs.
What You Can Expect:
Purposeful Work: Help patients achieve independence, improve quality of life, or receive compassionate end-of-life care.
Specialized Programs: Contribute to our Slow Stream Rehab (SSR) program, providing low-intensity therapy to meet long-term rehabilitation goals.
Supportive Team: Work alongside a collaborative and skilled interdisciplinary team in a positive, patient-focused environment.
Required
- Current Certificate of Registration in good standing, or eligible for registration from the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- Current CPR, BLS, or BCLS certificate.
- Capable of coping with a physically demanding workload. (Physical Demands Analysis (PDA) available to review)
Duties
- Provision of care for patients within an interprofessional environment, including assessment, treatment, teaching and education.
- Performs acts requiring specialized knowledge, skills and judgement necessary for care of acute medical patients.
- Teaching and coaching to patients and families.
- Maintains nursing records in accordance with College of Nurses Standards.
- Practicing in compliance with provincial legislation, hospital policy and procedures, professional regulatory standards and best practices within the nursing profession.
- Maintaining professional competence by completing regular professional development including annul training and education as indicated.
- Participates in unit/dept. and hospital quality improvement initiatives.
- Adheres to a safe and healthy workplace and maintains a safe and healthy work environment through attendance at educational programs, use of established mechanisms for injuries and hazards and adheres to health and safety related policy and procedures.
- Adapts and adheres to the values of Quinte Health while promoting and advocating for an enhanced patient experience.
- Other duties as assigned.
Equal Opportunity
We thank all interested candidates for their response, however, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted. Quinte Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to meeting needs under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Our Recruitment process follows the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act in order to provide a fair and equitable process for all candidates. Applicants requiring accommodation through the recruitment/interview process are encouraged to contact the Human Resources Department at 613-969-7400 x2577 or humanresources@quintehealth.ca for assistance.
Physical Demands Analysis
Strength
-
Required Sporadically – average under 30 pounds lifting, carrying, and pushing/pulling.
-
Required in extreme emergency – 100 pounds.
Mobility
-
Required Often – standing.
-
Required Frequently – sitting, walking, on hard floor surface.
-
Required Occasionally - stooping, lateral bending, foot activation, kneeling, bending.
-
Required Rarely - crouching, squatting.
Dexterity
- Required Frequently – both hands for reaching, reaching above shoulder, fine finger movement, foot action, pinching, gripping/grasping, and eye/hand coordination.
About Quinte Health
Quinte Health provides a wide range of high quality health care services to 160,000 people living in the 7000 square kilometre region of Prince Edward and Hastings Counties and the southeast portion of Northumberland County.
Care is provided through four hospitals - Belleville General Hospital, North Hastings Hospital, Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital and Trenton Memorial Hospital - and includes four emergency departments, operating rooms at three sites, a rehabilitation day hospital, children's treatment centre, ambulatory care clinics, community mental health programs and a range of diagnostic services. There are inpatient beds for acute medical patients, intensive care, obstetrics, paediatrics, mental health, complex continuing care, rehabilitation and surgery.
Our 1700 staff members, along with 364 professional staff with privileges including doctors, nurse practitioners and mid-wives, provide primary and secondary patient care. Through partnership and innovation, the teams at the four hospitals of Quinte Health provide exceptional health care services to the residents of the area, close to home.
Our vision over the next five years is to foster healthier, more connected people and communities. We will achieve this by working even more closely between our teams, hospitals and partners to provide care as close to home as possible and to help build a stronger health care system for the future. The pandemic has reinforced the value of teamwork and collaboration, and that we are indeed stronger together. Many of the challenges facing hospitals today can only be solved in true partnership.
Our Values: Imagine it's you, Value everyone, Stronger Together, and We all make a difference.