Nurse Clinician - Skin And Wound Care (Full Time)
About the role
Position: Nurse Clinician – Skin/Wound & Ostomy
Department: Professional Practice
Posting ID: 3790
Role Level: Nursing - Non-Union (NN11) - $54.19 to $65.82
Status: Full Time
Site: Credit Valley Hospital
Shifts: Monday to Friday
Posted: July 23, 2025
Internal Deadline: July 30, 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, the Reactivation Center at Humber and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. 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
Job Description:
Reporting to the Manager of Professional Practice, the successful candidate will collaborate with the Skin & Wound and Ostomy Team across Trillium Health Partners and engage in program development activities. The successful candidate works within the portfolio of Professional Practice to build capacity for delivery of excellent wound/skin and ostomy care across the organization. This role will function primarily at Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Centers at Humber and UHN, while supporting other sites.
- Provides leadership in the distribution of clinical support among all sites
- Provides clinical support to staff, implements and evaluates strategies to increase learning and ongoing development of the clinical and professional practice of staff at all sites
- Provides clinical support of complex wounds and ostomy care
- Works with the interprofessional team to facilitate competency of staff providing ostomy and wound care through ongoing learning opportunities
- Provides a quality improvement lens to improve practices across sites
- Acts as a resource person for staff regarding assessment of in-patient needs and evaluation of patient care management issues as they relate to skin, wound and ostomy care
- Identifies learning needs of patients and their families and, in collaboration with the interprofessional team members, plans, implements and evaluates instructional programs for patients and their caregivers; and provides individualized care plans as needed for patient/caregivers
- Organizes and participates in mini and hospital-wide prevalence & incidence audits
- Supports commitment to THP’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) designation through Best Practice Guideline (BPG) sustainment and evaluation across the organization In collaboration with the surgeons, provides pre-operative and post-operative counselling to patients and families requiring ostomy surgery
Key Qualifications:
- Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing required
- Master’s Degree in a Health Sciences Profession preferred
- Regulated Health Professional registered and in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario required
- Graduate of a recognized Enterostomal Therapy/NSWOCC Program or enrolled or plan on enrolling and completing the course within 12 months preferred
- Demonstrated excellence and clinical experience in wound, skin and ostomy care and management
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated effective education program development, research utilization, adult education and professional development
- Effective interpersonal communication skills and ability to establish positive relationships with all staff, clients, families, and community partners
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency in the provision of clinical consultation to patients and/or family members for complex skin/wound and ostomy care concerns Demonstrated leadership skills in creating capacity among staff nurses and other inter-professional team members for providing excellence in wound/skin and ostomy care as well as evaluation of care
To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website: www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
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.
Nurse Clinician - Skin And Wound Care (Full Time)
About the role
Position: Nurse Clinician – Skin/Wound & Ostomy
Department: Professional Practice
Posting ID: 3790
Role Level: Nursing - Non-Union (NN11) - $54.19 to $65.82
Status: Full Time
Site: Credit Valley Hospital
Shifts: Monday to Friday
Posted: July 23, 2025
Internal Deadline: July 30, 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, the Reactivation Center at Humber and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. 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
Job Description:
Reporting to the Manager of Professional Practice, the successful candidate will collaborate with the Skin & Wound and Ostomy Team across Trillium Health Partners and engage in program development activities. The successful candidate works within the portfolio of Professional Practice to build capacity for delivery of excellent wound/skin and ostomy care across the organization. This role will function primarily at Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Centers at Humber and UHN, while supporting other sites.
- Provides leadership in the distribution of clinical support among all sites
- Provides clinical support to staff, implements and evaluates strategies to increase learning and ongoing development of the clinical and professional practice of staff at all sites
- Provides clinical support of complex wounds and ostomy care
- Works with the interprofessional team to facilitate competency of staff providing ostomy and wound care through ongoing learning opportunities
- Provides a quality improvement lens to improve practices across sites
- Acts as a resource person for staff regarding assessment of in-patient needs and evaluation of patient care management issues as they relate to skin, wound and ostomy care
- Identifies learning needs of patients and their families and, in collaboration with the interprofessional team members, plans, implements and evaluates instructional programs for patients and their caregivers; and provides individualized care plans as needed for patient/caregivers
- Organizes and participates in mini and hospital-wide prevalence & incidence audits
- Supports commitment to THP’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) designation through Best Practice Guideline (BPG) sustainment and evaluation across the organization In collaboration with the surgeons, provides pre-operative and post-operative counselling to patients and families requiring ostomy surgery
Key Qualifications:
- Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing required
- Master’s Degree in a Health Sciences Profession preferred
- Regulated Health Professional registered and in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario required
- Graduate of a recognized Enterostomal Therapy/NSWOCC Program or enrolled or plan on enrolling and completing the course within 12 months preferred
- Demonstrated excellence and clinical experience in wound, skin and ostomy care and management
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated effective education program development, research utilization, adult education and professional development
- Effective interpersonal communication skills and ability to establish positive relationships with all staff, clients, families, and community partners
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency in the provision of clinical consultation to patients and/or family members for complex skin/wound and ostomy care concerns Demonstrated leadership skills in creating capacity among staff nurses and other inter-professional team members for providing excellence in wound/skin and ostomy care as well as evaluation of care
To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website: www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
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.