Nurse Practitioner – Primary Care Inpatient Psychiatry – Residency

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $60.75 - $87.33 / hour

Bring your clinical expertise and passion for providing quality care to a new and exciting role as a Nurse Practitioner in Primary Care supporting the Psychiatry Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital (SMH) in Surrey, B.C. Be part of a multidisciplinary team providing medical care to persons admitted for mental health conditions. In this primary care position, you will be part of an integrated and collaborative interdisciplinary acute care team helping patients and families access high-quality medical and psychiatric care.

The successful candidate will work with the inpatient psychiatry team including nursing, allied health staff, and psychiatrist to provide medical care to patients while they are at SMH in emergency department Mental Health Zone or Psychiatry inpatient units. As part of the Surrey psychiatry health care team, you will deliver holistic, trauma informed and culturally safe primary care to patients with mental illness.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in an integrated team delivering inpatient hospital care safely to patients. There is also the opportunity to work with outpatients as people transition to the community.

As a regional hospital for Fraser Health, as well as the home hospital for one of BC’s fastest growing communities, SMH is the second largest hospital in the province and provides specialized care to people from across Fraser Health, not only to residents of Surrey.

Surrey is one of Canada’s fastest growing cities and its land mass makes it one of the largest cities in the province, equal to the size of Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby combined. Known as the City of Parks, Surrey has over 6,000 acres of parkland and 15 golf courses and driving ranges. Also, despite rapid growth, Surrey has held onto the rural flavour of its past, with about 35 per cent of its land designated as agricultural and still actively farmed.

Our Nurse Practitioner Residency Program offers a unique postgraduate experience that will elevate your skills and strengthen your transition into independent practice.

Be part of our clinical enhancement program with regular in-house skills development such as 12 lead ECG interpretation, Point of Care ultrasound (POCUS), suturing and x-ray interpretation in addition to receiving centralized NP orientation. You will be welcomed into a New Graduate NP Community of Practice team helping to support your successful transition into independent practice.

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

The Nurse Practitioner is responsible and accountable for the comprehensive assessment of patients/clients/residents including diagnosing diseases, disorders, and conditions. The Nurse Practitioner initiates treatment including health care management, therapeutic interventions and prescribes medications in accordance with the statutory and regulatory standards, limits, and conditions, and employer policies and procedures. The Nurse Practitioner provides professional guidance to other health professionals and practices autonomously and interdependently within the context of an interdisciplinary health care team, making referrals to specialist physicians and others as appropriate.

The position collaborates with patients/clients/residents and other health professionals to identify and assess trends and patterns that have implications for patients/clients/residents, families and communities; develops and implements population and evidence based strategies to improve health and participates in policy-making activities that influence health services and practices. The position participates in peer review and self review to evaluate the outcome of services at the patient/client/resident, community and population level.