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Position

Registered Nurse - Integrated Comprehensive Care

Overview

St. Joseph’s Home Care is dedicated to providing quality and compassionate care to individuals in their homes and / or alternative settings on a visiting or shift care basis. Registered Nurses enhance the life of their clients by providing a range of care to clients with predictable outcomes, within the framework of SJHC’s policies and procedures and the standards of practice prescribed by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Through their work, Registered Nurses contribute to the healing and independence of their clients and promote the continual improvement of the overall health of the community.

Responsibilities

• Clinical : providing quality nursing care, within the scope of practice and in accordance with the professional regulating body
• Maintaining knowledge and compliance to the Professional Standards
• Following nursing processes and practices in an effective and efficient manner
• Ensuring the maintenance of high-quality nursing skills, applying current knowledge to nursing care
• Complying with all SJHC nursing practices, processes and work instructions
• Reviewing and following the plan of nursing care, including discharge plans
• Engaging in consultation / liaison with clients, their families / caregivers, physical, multi-discipline team members, and other external stakeholders as required (e.g. HCCSS, ICC Care Coordinators)
• Evaluating and monitoring care plans on an on-going basis
• Assisting other clinical programs if requested or required
• Participating in regular and on-going professional development / learning opportunities, with the goal of obtaining more advanced or specialized nursing skills, as may be necessary for organizational advancement
• Completes self-appraisals in keeping with the College of Nurses of Ontario Standards of Practice and SJHC internal practices
• Acts as an advocate for patients, families and their caregivers through reviewing and interpreting information, supporting decision making and facilitating communications
• Completing comprehensive nursing assessments
• Conducting virtual care visits as necessary to program and / or scope of practice
• Operational : completing program, clinical or organizational documentation in a timely and accurate manner
• Participating in organizational learning opportunities as appropriate (e.g. Surge Learning)
• Engaging on organizational working groups as appropriate (e.g. JH&SC, Quality Committee)
• Effectively utilizing organizational tools, software, devices in the application of daily work, willingness and ability to learn new technical skills as operational or patient needs change
• Willingness and ability to provide care in a variety of geographical locations (e.g. Central Hamilton), patient care environments (e.g. apartment buildings), or institutional care settings (e.g. Long Term Care)
• Willingness and ability to act as coach / mentor / Preceptor to new nurses through knowledge sharing and peer to peer support

Core Competencies

Regularly demonstrates our mission, vision and values :

Qualifications

One of either of the following – required

St. Joseph’s Home Care is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equity, inclusiveness, and diversity across all our programs, practices, facilities, and team. AI is not used in our recruitment processes for the selection of candidates.

If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, such as alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms, please inform the hiring manager before your interview. Should you wish to conduct your interview in French, kindly contact our head office to arrange this in advance.

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