Who We Are:

CarePartners is one of Ontario’s largest accredited home health care providers, providing nursing, personal support, therapy and rehabilitation support services for patients of all ages. We care for approximately 72,000 patients each year in homes, schools, clinics, workplaces and retirement homes, through our 24 locations and 22 nursing clinics. CarePartners is proud of its commitment to quality, relentlessly seeking to improve the patient and caregiver experience, promoting a healthy and resilient workplace culture, and contributing to a sustainable healthcare system in Ontario.

Overview:

The Integrated Clinical Specialist in Palliative Care and Oncology was established to lead and advance integrated palliative practice across the province. We are seeking a highly skilled, dedicated, and self-motivated individual to support the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care. As a key member of our Clinical Nursing Excellence team, this position will focus on providing expert care, guidance, and leadership in both palliative care and oncology. The Clinical Specialist will play a pivotal role in shaping interprofessional best practices across the patient care continuum, from birth through end-of-life, supporting both clinical teams and patients.

This role involves close collaboration with internal and external partners to ensure optimal therapeutic outcomes are achieved. Additionally, the Clinical Specialist will serve as a subject matter expert in skill development, working alongside Clinical Practice Leads and the Learning and Development team to foster ongoing professional growth.

This role requiresoccasional travel across Ontarioto support regional operations, including attendance at meetings, site visits, and other operational or program-related activities, as directed by organizational priorities.

In addition, the position includesin-office attendance at our Waterloo, Ontario location as directed. Candidates must be able to travel within the province and attend the Waterloo office when required to support team engagement, regional alignment, and effective service delivery.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary, comprehensive health and dental benefits
• Other employment perks such as Employee Assistance Program, Perkopolis, Rewards Points
• Flexible work from home arrangements supporting employee work life balance
• Inspiring leadership and opportunities for professional growth
• Supportive & dedicated Safety Health & Wellness team & Pandemic Response team
• Interprofessional collaboration with our Professional Practice Research & Education Team

What The Role Involves:

Advance Standards of Care and Professional Practic****e Palliative and Oncology Care

• Champions a culture that is committed to and passionate about patient-centered, high-quality and integrated care and the identification of transformative opportunities in enabling point-of-care excellence in every patient and caregiver interaction.
• Promotes and maintains the application of standards of care, best practice and/or core competencies into the development of processes and policies supporting palliative care and oncology practice in home and community care.
• Leads the design, implementation and evaluation of the palliative care and oncology program at local branches that align with current standards, evidence-based practice, organizational needs and external customer requirements.
• Collaborates with interprofessional patient care teams, operations and quality and professional practice leadership supporting the implementation of local, regional and provincial strategies that will advance excellence in clinical outcomes from a population health lens.
• Implements evidenced based care using an integrated care delivery approach including understanding and elevating the roles of ALL health care professionals (e.g., Personal Support, Therapies and Nursing).
• Maintains clinical competency in palliative care and oncology.
• Utilizes instructional design concepts and approach to develop, deliver and coordinate palliative care and oncology care education.
• Incorporates adult education principles into palliative care and oncology education programs.
• Develop and implement coaching and mentoring programs to ensure the delivery of the best practices.
• Provides palliative care and oncology expertise to diverse populations.
• Facilitates and champions innovative practices, approaches and programming in alignment with CarePartners research initiatives.
• Participates in the development, maintains and monitors quality practice indicators to ensure ongoing practice fidelity.
• Supports CarePartners’ strategic priorities relevant to professional practice and ensures leadership is informed of emerging trends in technology, health care, and adult education pertaining to palliative care and oncology.
• Participates in an on-call rotation for remote support with members of the clinical practice specialist team.
• Provide high-quality clinical palliative care and oncology consultation and professional practice to internal and external stakeholders such as the local and provincial Patient Care and Operations and Professional Practice leadership, acute care, Ministry of Health e.g., Ontario Health at Home and Ontario Health Teams.
• Collaborates with the local CarePartners branches to identify issues and trends regarding practice gaps and develops proposal, in collaboration with leadership, to mitigate activities and ensure alignment with high-quality patient-centered practice and programming expectations.
• Provide strategic advice on palliative care and oncology practice and programming issues and themes.

Build Capability and Education

• Provide consultancy service and support to leadership and frontline staff for the promotion of practice and programming excellence, in line with CarePartners internal and regulatory standards.
• Supports the consistency of palliative care and oncology practices across the branches.
• Works closely with Patient Care and Operations leadership and collaborates on clinical orientation, role developments and developments of palliative care and oncology clinical competencies.
• Acts as a palliative care and oncology resource to facilitate the full scope of practice for team members.
• Champions the use of digital learning platforms and identifies infrastructure necessary to enable nimble and responsive learning for frontline team members.
• Supports local site-specific training and coaching initiatives that are informed by key performance indicators, such as patient experience, outcomes measures and risk events.
• Assists in the development of communication with evidence-based clinical and research content, e.g. QPP emails, company newsletters.
• Strong proficiency in designing and delivering education and comfort in presenting to large audiences both virtually and in-person.

Research and Policy

• Identify and participate in palliative care and oncology research opportunities as appropriate.
• Provides evidence-based clinical input into the development, maintenance and implementation of clinical and research policies for nursing, therapy and personal support services.
• Participates in attending palliative care related conference(s), abstract writing, and speaking at conferences.

Special Projects

• Brings leadership from a professional practice lens to strategic priority projects and programming, as required.

• Leads and participates in internal project teams and committees as assigned.

• Other duties, as assigned.

What You Bring:

• Registered with the College of Nurses with expertise in palliative and oncology care

• Master’s Degree in Nursing or working towards is preferred.

• More than 5 years of healthcare-related experience in leading clinical practice in home and community care is an asset.

• Knowledge of the OPCN Health Service Delivery Frameworks (Adult Community and Pediatrics (pending)).

• Knowledge of current Palliative Care Competency Framework (National and Ontario).

• Knowledge of the CHPCA Model to Guide Hospice Palliative Care.

• Knowledge of the Gold Standard Framework and Early Identification Tools.

• Nursing specializing in Palliative Care and Oncology is required or working towards within 6 to 18 months of starting the position.

  • CAPCE certified – within 8 months
  • LEAP (Core or Home Care and Pediatrics) certified – within 6 months
  • Advanced Pain Assessment and Management Course – within 8 months
  • Serious Illness Conversation Training – within 12 months
  • CNA Certification – within 18 months
  • Foundations in Oncology – within 12 months (DeSouza Learning Institute)
  • Chemotherapy and Biotherapy Administration certification - within 18 months (DeSouza Learning Institute)

• LEAP Facilitator would be considered an asset.

• Expertise in vascular access care and maintenance, including administration.

• Experience working with ambulatory infusion pumps (i.e. CADD, Saphire, Elastomeric).

• Knowledge of adult learning principles.

• Valid driver's license, own vehicle and appropriate insurance

CarePartners In Your Community:

In addition to providing home-based health care, CarePartners also serves the community through clinics, transitional care units, and provides relief in retirement homes and shared care settings. Through our Community Nursing Services outreach program, we’ve been organizing staff-led medical care and clinics in countries with poor access to health care since 2009.

Accessibility:

CarePartners welcomes and encourages applicants from people with disabilities. Candidates can request accommodations at any time in the hiring process.

Artificial Intelligence

CarePartners uses iCIMs as part of our recruitment and hiring process. While we incorporate select Artificial Intelligence (AI) features to enhance process efficiency, we remain committed to human-led decision making. All AI-generated outputs are subject to human review to ensure accuracy and fairness.

This job posting is available due to an existing vacancy.