Nurse Practitioner - Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga

Position summary

Trillium Health Partners is seeking a full-time Nurse Practitioner for the Centre for Complex Diabetes Care (CCDC) across Mississauga and Oakville locations. In this advanced clinical role, you will function with a high level of autonomy to formulate clinical decisions, manage acute and chronic illness, and promote wellness for patients.

The Nurse Practitioner will conduct comprehensive health assessments, diagnose, provide treatment including pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies, and develop care plans in collaboration with family physicians, endocrinologists, and the inter-professional team. A strong primary care background coupled with experience in chronic diseases such as mental health, COPD, cardiovascular, and renal disease is necessary.

Responsibilities

The principal responsibilities of this healthcare role include the following:

• Works collaboratively with nursing colleagues, physicians, allied health team and patient/ family to provide advanced nursing practice through physical and psycho-social assessments and development of outpatient care plans and provide case management
• Implements care plan and assists with the evaluation of patient outcomes, and co-ordinates outpatient care plan with primary care and other specialists
• Combining the roles that fall within the domains of advanced nursing practice including clinical practice, research, leadership, collaboration and consultation
• Developing effective partnerships with physicians and other members of the inter-professional team to provide quality care to patients and their families followed by the CCDC
• Applying a comprehensive theoretical knowledge base and approved medical directives and/or within the scope of practice in the extended class, the NP works collaboratively and independently to assess and manage patients’ medical care requirements across the continuum of care, demonstrating exemplary clinical assessment and decision making skills
• Providing a key leadership role in evaluating quality of care and patient outcomes within the specialty population, in partnership with the physicians and other members of the inter-professional team
• Providing leadership in clinical practice through mentoring and participating in formal and informal staff education
• Identifying quality initiatives that will strengthen and further develop nursing professional practice
• Evaluating the care provided to the patient including maintaining accurate statistics for reporting

Requirements

Candidates applying for these Trillium Health Partners careers must meet the following qualifications:

• Registration in the Registered Nurse Extended Class with the College of Nurses with clinical focus in primary care
• Experience in diabetes management is preferred
• Membership in the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, required
• Demonstrated excellence in practice in primary care for a minimum of 2 years
• Demonstrated experience with completing comprehensive assessments on complex clients
• Experience in evaluating quality of care and patient outcomes within the specialty population, in partnership with the physicians and other members of the inter-professional team
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to establish positive relationships with all staff, clients, families, and community agencies
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification

What's on offer

This full-time opportunity provides a competitive hourly rate ranging from $68.67 to $82.12 per hour under role level CPS06. Staff benefit from working in a supportive, equal opportunity hospital environment dedicated to patient and community well-being.