Registered Nurse; RN - Palliative Care Unit

Baycrest Hospital

has an exciting opportunity for a

REGISTERED NURSE

Palliative Care (6 West)

Posting Number: 9668

Position Type: Temporary Full-Time (up-to 12 months)

Shift Type: Evening, Alternate Weekends (subject to change)

Bi-Weekly Hours: 75 Hours, 7.5 hrs/shift

Union: ONA

Hourly Pay Rate: $41.15 - $58.98

Date Posted: February 23, 2026

Internal Closing Date: March 2, 2026

About Us

At Baycrest Hospital, older adults receive specialized post-acute inpatient care informed by deep expertise in aging and brain health, delivered with compassion and clinical excellence.

At the Shirley and Philip Granovsky Palliative Care Unit, we provide continuous care for older adults during the later stages of a life-limiting illness. Our goal is to make a patient’s last days as rich and meaningful as possible and often help with end-of-life planning and celebrations. We believe in meaningful, holistic care that includes the voices of patients, families and everyone involved in the patient’s care.

Job Summary

The Palliative Care Unit provides 24-hour pain and symptom control combined with emotional and spiritual support to patients with late or end-stage malignant and non-malignant disease in need of palliative care. We offer a 31 bed unit with beds reserved for both short-term palliative applicants with a 90 day or less prognosis and long-stay palliative applicants.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides sound clinical knowledge and assessment skills, acts as clinical expert and resource and provides comprehensive, quality client/family centred health care services from admission, through transfers and discharge
• Plans for, delivers and evaluates nursing interventions, including medications, as well as treatments which fall within the RN’s scope of practice
• Provides client-centred care within interdisciplinary care team to meet the personal care, activation, recreation and spiritual needs of clients
• Participates actively in the teaching programs for nurses and nursing students

Qualifications

• Current registration, in good standing, from the College of Nurses of Ontario (‘CNO’) is required
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (‘BCLS’) certificate, Level C - Automated External Device (‘AED’) is required
• BScN preferred
• Knowledge of Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Standard of Care an asset
• Demonstrated ability to take professional accountability for leading, organizing, providing and delegating care activities for clients and families
• Previous experience in palliative care preferred
• Psychogeriatric experience, i.e. mental health assessment and intervention and working with responsive behaviours preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills
• Basic computer skills – Meditech, Microsoft Word and Excel preferred