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NURSE PRACTITIONER

Southbridge Care Homesabout 20 hours ago
Plantagenet, Ontario
Mid Level
part_time

About the role

Position: Nurse Practitioner

Status: Part-Time

Schedule: Start time and working days can be flexible

Home/Location: Pinecrest Nursing Home, Plantagenet, ON

Step into a role where your expertise truly makes a difference! As a Nurse Practitioner at Southbridge Care Homes, you’ll lead the delivery of high-quality, compassionate care to our residents. You’ll conduct assessments, develop and manage individualized care plans, and work closely with a supportive interdisciplinary team. Attending Nurse Practitioners are the most responsible provider, with overall responsibility for the management and coordination of care for residents in our long-term care (LTC) homes.

Are you looking for a unique career development opportunity that focuses on primary care in an LTC setting? This role allows you to develop in-depth expertise in the care of older persons and strengthen your leadership skills.

Join us in a dynamic environment where your skills are valued, your impact is immediate, and every day brings the opportunity to improve the health and quality of life of our residents.

Role In this exciting and challenging role, you will provide clinical leadership support for the home’s inter-professional team, working collaboratively with physicians, staff and health system partners in the community. Spending 70% of your time providing direct medical care to residents, and 30% on clinical leadership you will:

  • Develop and implement the residents’ plan of care in collaboration with residents and their families, and the LTC home’s health care team
  • Provide proactive screening and assessment, timely episodic care and specialist referrals, follow-up care, ongoing chronic disease management, palliative and end-of-life care
  • Provide leadership and mentoring support to LTC home staff to enhance their knowledge, assessment skills and ability to care for residents, optimizing resident health care outcomes
  • Contribute to and implement Quality Improvement Plans
  • Support internal and external committees respecting the LTC home respecting clinical and professional issues

Qualifications

  • Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Nurse in the Extended Class (Primary Health Care or Adult) and entitled to practice
  • Post-graduate education and experience in gerontology (an asset)
  • Specialty certification in gerontological nursing (an asset)
  • Post-graduate certificate and experience in palliative care (an asset)
  • Bilingual English & French (an asset)

Interested applicants should apply through this posting. We would like to thank all applicants for your interest in working as part of our team!

Only those applicants selected to move forward in the recruitment process will be contacted.

About Southbridge Care Homes

Hospitals and Health Care
1001-5000

Creating Caring Environments for seniors. Managing over thirty long term-care homes, retirement and independent living communities across Ontario, we strive to ensure our residents feel connected, supported, loved and cared for. We plan to redevelop our communities so that we may continue to provide consistent, high-quality care for our residents now and in the future.