Nurse Practitioner

Bayshore HealthCare is one of the Canada’s leading providers of home and community health care services and is a privately owned company. Bayshore HealthCare is proud to showcase its achievement as a Platinum member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies Program every year since 2006. In 2015, Bayshore achieved the designation for Best Practice Spotlight Organization from the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. Bayshore Healthcare is also recognized as Canada’s Best Employers in Forbes 2023 list.

Person-and family-centered care (PFCC) is an approach to care that recognizes the importance of family in a patient’s life and the importance of their active involvement in planning and making decisions on health care, services and treatment, and health system reform. This approach to care provides respectful, compassionate, culturally safe, and responsive care that meets the needs, values, beliefs, and preferences of the patient, their family, and others identified as significant to their life from diverse backgrounds and settings.

Are you passionate about geriatric care and looking to make a meaningful impact? Bayshore Healthcare’s Integrated Care Solutions (ICS) is hiring a full-time Nurse Practitioner to join our Transitional Care Unit in Amherstview, Ontario, operating in direct partnership with local hospitals, supporting seniors transitioning from hospital to community.

As a key member of the inter-professional team, the Nurse Practitioner will have a high level of autonomy, conducting patient assessments, diagnosing, ordering and interpreting tests, prescribing medications, and performing specific procedures. The NP will collaborate with the team to respond to changing health needs and deliver care that promotes the best outcomes for frail seniors.

This position will be based out of our Transitional Care Unit located in Amherstview, Ontario.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supports the needs of patient populations including innovative approaches to care delivery
• Provides comprehensive primary care to the patients as part of an interdisciplinary/inter professional team focused on creation of a person-centered plan of care
• Reviews and updates primary care activities in line with organization goals and projected outcomes
• Promotes evidence-based practice through the use of latest research-based guidelines
• Ensures the provision of safe, evidence based, cost effective, patient and family centered care
• Identifies and implement appropriate clinical documentation and record keeping practices
• Keeps up to date with health-related policy and implement if deemed appropriate to impact patient care in a positive manner
• Participates in ongoing quality monitoring and improvement
• Participates in creating, delivering, and maintaining an exceptional quality program
• Creates an environment that builds on the principles of integrated team approach
• Completion of a recognized Primary Care or Adult Nurse Practitioner program with a minimum of 3 years of geriatric experience required.
• Able to prescribe controlled substances as authorized by CNO.
• Master of Nursing
• Current Extended Class certification with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• Sound working knowledge of hospital nursing functions, current needs in nursing, health care and geriatric care.
• Previous experience in clinical work with geriatric clients; diagnosing and staging of dementia.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment and to assess situations and problems efficiently and effectively.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, experience with written documentation, care plans and dictation.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, collaborative, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work well within an inter-professional team and to foster effective working relationships.
• Ability to exercise initiative and observe strict confidentiality.
• demonstrated commitment to Bayshore core values
• Expert wound care and IV skills
  
  

Bayshore is committed to a high quality and safe environment for both our staff and clients/patients. Dependent upon Provincial government regulations, and the position being applied for, new hires may be required to provide proof of vaccination against illnesses such as COVID-19, Hepatitis, Seasonal Flu etc. Please speak with the recruiter for Provincial and/or position specific requirements. Medical exemptions or any other kinds of requested exemptions based upon Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

“At Bayshore Healthcare, our commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is our strength. This is how we bring our vision of being the difference in the lives of those we care for, work with and in our communities. We have a great sense of pride in creating a culture of belonging, where individual differences are embraced and celebrated, through programs, resources and policies that support each individuals purpose, potential and wellbeing.”

Bayshore operates in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, and applicable Provincial Human Rights Codes.

Primary Location

ON-Kingston