Nurse Practitioner Part-Time

The Rexdale Community Health Centre (RCHC) is a multi-service centre that provides primary health care, health promotion, and community support services, including settlement and community development activities for families, children, youth, adults, and seniors of diverse backgrounds. RCHC is recruiting for a part-time Nurse Practitioner to support the work of the Interprofessional Primary Care Team.

The Nurse Practitioner will join our dynamic inter-professional team in providing holistic, comprehensive primary health care services to individuals, families, and communities in the North Etobicoke area. A Registered Nurse, Extended Class, in good standing with the Ontario College of Nurses, will use advanced assessment, physical examination, therapeutic and diagnostic skills to treat, counsel or refer clients. Using a collaborative, shared care approach, the Nurse Practitioner will work with other team members in health promotion and disease prevention, which may include individual, group, or community interventions.

The Nurse Practitioner functions as a member of the primary care team in the provision of primary health care services to residents of the community, with a strong emphasis on illness and injury prevention and health promotion. The Nurse Practitioner will work within the interdisciplinary team at the Centre to address individual and community health issues, including providing holistic assessment of and care for patients and families with a focus on health promotion, disease prevention, health maintenance and rehabilitation

A unique aspect of this role is the opportunity to provide care through the Centre’s “Wheels to Wellness” mobile health program, delivering primary care services directly within the community and meeting people where they are. The Nurse Practitioner will play a vital role in improving access to care by providing outreach services in community settings and supporting individuals who may otherwise experience challenges accessing health services.

In addition, the NP will support the Sickle Cell Disease program.

Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive, client-centred primary health care to individuals and families at the Community Health Centre and through community outreach initiatives, including the Wheels to Wellness mobile clinic.
• Conduct comprehensive health assessments; diagnose and manage acute and chronic illnesses; develop and implement evidence-informed treatment plans; prescribe medications; and order, perform, and interpret laboratory tests, diagnostic imaging, and other investigations within the Nurse Practitioner scope of practice and College of Nurses of Ontario standards.
• Provide comprehensive primary care services across the lifespan, including health promotion, illness prevention, chronic disease management, prenatal and postnatal care, newborn assessments, breastfeeding support, and episodic care.
• Deliver specialized primary care for individuals living with sickle cell disease, including comprehensive assessment, ongoing monitoring, management of acute and chronic complications, pain management, preventive care, health education, and coordination of services across the continuum of care.
• Support individuals living with sickle cell disease during transitions between hospital and community settings, including post-discharge follow-up, coordination of specialist referrals, and facilitation of continuity of care.
• Collaborate with physicians, specialists, hospitals, Ontario Health Teams, community agencies, and other health care providers to ensure coordinated, integrated, and client-centred care.
• Develop trusting therapeutic relationships with clients and families by providing culturally safe, trauma-informed, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive care that recognizes the impact of systemic barriers and the social determinants of health.
• Provide health education, counselling, and self-management support to clients and families, with an emphasis on chronic disease prevention, healthy lifestyles, medication management, and disease prevention.
• Assess individual, family, and community health needs and participate in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of…