Nurse Practitioner Job Guelph area,Ontario Canada,Nursing

As a Nurse Practitioner, you will be hired to Homewood Health Centre and become an integral member of our collaborative, interdisciplinary clinical team. Your initial work will support specialized inpatient services, including the Integrated Mood, Anxiety & Addictions Concurrent Program or the Trauma & Concurrent Disorders Program.

Clinical assignments may evolve over time based on patient needs, organizational priorities, and operational requirements, providing opportunities to contribute across the Health Centre while maintaining continuity, collaboration, and high-quality care.

Why Nurse Practitioners choose Homewood:

Practice in a highly specialized mental health and addictions treatment environment

Work alongside psychiatrists, physicians, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, therapists, and allied health professionals

Build expertise in trauma-related disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, and concurrent substance use

Contribute to evidence-informed, measurement-based care for patients with complex needs

Grow through varied clinical experiences across Homewood Health Centre as operational needs evolve

Work Monday to Friday during daytime hours, with no on-call requirements

Homewood offers a very competitive compensation package

Make a meaningful difference for patients at a pivotal point in their recovery journey

Every day, you will build therapeutic relationships with patients at a pivotal point in their recovery while applying advanced clinical knowledge, shaping collaborative treatment plans, and supporting safe transitions from admission through discharge.

What you’ll be doing:

Utilize a comprehensive theoretical knowledge base and an advanced level of clinical competence in caring for patients, which will include health assessments and diagnosis of medical and cognitive problems, developing and implementing a plan of care, providing health counselling and emotional support in the areas of health promotion and the prevention of illness, injury and complication

Work in collaboration with the consulting physicians to facilitate early assessment and intervention for patients requiring consults

Support the management of patients in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team including comprehensive nursing/medical history, physical and psychosocial assessment of the patients’ status

Utilize established care paths and order sets to guide care practices for the patient population from admission through to discharge

Support the health team through the completion of comprehensive initial patient assessments and established individualized treatment and care plans for the complex patients in collaboration with physicians and psychiatrists

Assist in/coordinates care with patients, families and communities

Create and maintain a climate for and a commitment to healing within a therapeutic relationship.

Demonstrate sensitivity to culture, situation and family dynamics

Maximize the patient’s participation and control in their own treatment, providing information and support for decision making

Facilitate change directed by the patient, mapped out by mutually developed goals

Assess problems rapidly, noting and documenting significant changes. The Nurse Practitioner, in collaboration with the nurse, assesses the potential for risk accurately and demonstrates leadership and skill in extreme or life-threatening emergencies

Document according to professional standards, the principles of clear communication, and Homewood policy and procedure

What we’re looking for:

We welcome applications from both new graduate and experienced Nurse Practitioners

Current registration in the Extended Class (Nurse Practitioner) with the College of Nurses of Ontario is required

Membership in related professional associations, such as…