Public health nurse Jobs in Scarborough, ON

Union : ONA TW

Site : Toronto Western Hospital

Department : Toronto Western Family Health Team Garrison Creek

Reports to : Clinic Manager

Work Model : OnSite

Grade : E0 : 06

Hours : 37.5 per week

Salary : $39.07 to $56.00 per hour (start rate in accordance with collective agreement)

Shifts : Days Evenings Weekends (46 shifts / week)

Status : Permanent FullTime

Closing Date : January 31 2025

Position Summary :

The Toronto Western Family Health Team (FHT) Garrison Creek provides primary care services using multidisciplinary and interprofessional team approaches to a variety of patient populations. The Registered Nurse (RN) will be a member of the Family Health Team (FHT) and the UHN Nursing group. The RN follows the patient through all stages of growth and development through degrees of wellness and illness while collaborating with other service providers patients and families. The RN provides holistic assessment screening healthy lifestyle support education and chronic disease management with a goal of improving health outcomes and facilitating access to services.

Duties

• Provide complete comprehensive nursing assessments with an understanding of the social determinants of health
• Complete triage of patients both in person and on the phone to aid in appropriate treatment and care decisions in relation to same day appointments unscheduled care and telephone calls from patients
• Assist in the functioning of the clinic to ensure smooth and efficient functioning
• Provide general primary care nursing to patients in keeping with nursing standards
• Develop and implement treatment plans / therapeutic interventions in consultation with patients and  other interdisciplinary team members
• Provides health teaching and education counseling and health promotion and prevention of illness to patients
• Make appropriate hospital and community referrals and follow up as needed
• Assists in the functioning of the clinic to ensure smooth and efficient operation

Work collaboratively with other TWH UHN FHT staff and community organizations to improve client care service delivery and coordination

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Additional Information :

Why join UHN

In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world UHN offers a wide range of benefits programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor allowing you to find value where it matters most to you now and throughout your career at UHN.

Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHNs attendance management program to be eligible for consideration.

All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.

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Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading inaccurate or incorrect UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.

UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.

We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

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