Nurse Practitioner

Overview

Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (SCHC) is dedicated to providing accessible, equitable, and transformational health and social service choices for the well-being of Scarborough's diverse communities. We cultivate vital community services by promoting healthy lifestyles while delivering a comprehensive range of culturally competent health and social services programming. Our I2

CARE values ensures that we, as a work community, treat all with, inclusivity, innovation, collaboration, accessibility respect and equity.

As an employer, we strive for excellence as a workplace and are committed to building a workforce that enhances our capacity to meet the needs of the diverse communities we serve.

Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner

1 – Full Time, Permanent (35 hours/week)

Reporting To:
Interprofessional Primary Care Manager

• A strategic commitment to organizational health, ensuring our people and culture are well supported.
• 3 weeks paid vacation for full time positions to start, additional time with tenure.
• Continuous funded training opportunities.
• Paid sick and family sick days.
• Health benefits including prescription drugs, dental, vision care, alternative therapies, life insurance, employee assistance program, disability insurance; benefit coverage for family and dependents available.
• A strategic commitment to Action on Equity to advance diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging utilizing an intersectional lens.
• Standard working hours, with flexibility to accommodate occasional evening or weekend appointments.

Position Summary:

To provide comprehensive primary health care for unattached children and families living in the Scarborough community with an emphasis on service delivery, health promotion and prevention based on their unique health care needs.

• Provide comprehensive family centered primary health care services within his/her scope of practice.
• Provide assessment, intervention, monitoring and follow-up for acute and chronic illnesses.
• Conducting clients’ interviews and examinations, developing and implementing client-centered treatment plans, while integrating evidence-based health promotion practices.
• Provide seasonal, routine and catch up immunization based on MOH Publicly funded immunization schedule.
• Obtaining, documents and interpreting clients’ information and maintaining clients’ records according to the standard of medical records at SCHC, including assuring privacy and confidentiality.
• Providing and receiving consults on client care to/from other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Adhere to College of Nurses standards of practice.
• Actively participate within an inter-professional model of care.
• Participate in peer/chart audit reviews as required.
• Participate in Health Centre health promotion/outreach initiatives.
• Participate in case conferences.
• Capacity to work in a team setting, delivering services to marginalized individuals living with chronic illness, mental health and addiction.
• Willingness to participate in professional development opportunities and preceptor nurse practitioner/medical students.
• Participating in the clinical team audits and other quality improvements and best practice activities within the organization and broader community health team.
• Making home visits as required.
• Maintain competencies as required through professional development.
• Capacity to work in a team setting, delivering services to marginalized individuals living with chronic illness, mental health, and addiction.
• Willingness to participate in professional development opportunities and preceptor nurse practitioner/medical students.
• Provide community education sessions as schedule permits.
• Participate in SCHC on-call schedule as part of SCHC’s funder requirements.

The Nurse Practitioner will function within their full scope of practice in accordance to College of Nurses of Ontario standards of practice. The Nurse Practitioner is accountable to the agency’s manager, primary care services.

• Master’s prepared Nurse Practitioner with Primary Health Care certificate.
• Registration, in good standing,…