Nurse Practitioner

Job Description

Nurse Practitioner

CARE AND BE CARED FOR – THIS IS YOUR HOME

Are you an experienced Nurse Practitioner seeking a rewarding career that cares for others, in a professional practice that cares for you? You’re looking in the right place.

Ontario Health atHome – Mississauga Halton Region is seeking to fill one (1) Full-Time Nurse Practitioner position (Monday to Friday) with the Palliative Care Team. Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter and detailed resume demonstrating how their skills, qualifications, and experience meet the requirements of the role. Please quote Competition #FY2526-118 in your application.

What will you do?

Reporting to the Manager, Patient Services, as an integrated member of the Palliative Care Team, the Nurse Practitioner (NP) supports the Ontario Health atHome Mississauga Halton Palliative Program and the Ontario Health atHome Mississauga Palliative Care Regional Programing to ensure high quality, patient-centered hospice palliative care across all care settings in the Mississauga Halton region.

The NP provides support to the Palliative Care Team and specialist providers to address palliative care needs and increase capacity within the region to provide palliative and end of life care in the community. Critical to the NP role is the provision of direct nursing services to support patients with palliative needs and their families. The NP broad scope practice will support seamless integration of hospice palliative care at the primary, secondary and tertiary care level; serving as clinician, educator, collaborator and advocate.

At the primary level, the incumbent works as an integral member of the Palliative Care Team, assisting in building team capacity to provide care and clinical management; at the secondary level, engaging in shared care with primary and specialist providers, to address more complex palliative care needs; and at the tertiary level facilitating access to and seamless transition to and from tertiary services.

Working collaboratively across the health care system, the NP provides expert direct clinical palliative care and leadership to support seamless, integrated care delivery. In this leadership role, the NP will work in all domains consistent with advanced practice nursing (leadership, clinical care, consultation/collaboration, facilitation and research). Within this scope, the NP will provide home/office/hospital visits and telephone and face-to-face consultation, and crisis response, The NP is also responsible for education, knowledge transfer and best practice implementation, mentorship and professional development, through coaching inter-professional teams involved in the circle of support.

The role includes stakeholder engagement, participation in local, regional and provincial committees and a leadership role to implement improvements in Ontario Health atHome Mississauga Halton and within the Mississauga Halton Palliative Care Network. The NP supports an organizational culture that promotes professional growth and continuous learning, program development and evaluation, and effective inter-professional teams.

Expert Clinical Practice

Provides palliative and end-of-life direct care to patients within the scope of practice, supporting patient/caregiver and their circle of care to receive community-based care as long as possible and support patient death in place of choice

As part of a team of NPs, provides expert clinical care to complex palliative patients and expert clinical advice to the inter-professional team, including for example, primary care physicians, specialists, care coordinators, and community nurses on the management of pain and symptoms, psychosocial support and therapeutic interventions

Participates in shared care roles with the primary care team as well as specialists

Ensures rapid response capacity

Provides advanced care planning; develop goals of care and/or initiate end of life conversations

Responsible for home/office/hospital visits to complex palliative patients and their families for the purpose of completing comprehensive clinical assessments and building capacity within the primary team

Contributes to the development of comprehensive shared care plans in consultation with Care Coordinators, service providers, primary care physicians and others

Participates in patient rounds and case conferences with palliative care teams in hospital(s) to identify complex palliative needs and support safe and successful transitioning back to the community/home; prioritizes responsibility to ensure crisis management/urgent needs are supported

Adopts regional and provincial targets as performance goals and measures

Supports Most Responsible Practitioner (Family Physician/Palliative Physician/Other) to ensure continuity of medical/clinical care for individuals with complex palliative needs across primary, acute, community and specialized palliative care sectors in relation to coordinated management approaches, information exchange and relationships with the patient and family

Identifies complex needs that may require tertiary intervention

Identifies complex needs that may require tertiary intervention and takes appropriate action

Provides evening support to the inter-professional and primary care team for the purposes of assistance with problem solving and decision-making and telephone or face to face visits as required

Leadership

Collaborates with Ontario Health atHome Mississauga Halton administration to work towards provincial goals of “death in place of choice” and building organizational and regional capacity to care for patients within the system of home and community care

Assists in the development of palliative care program policies and procedures including development of content for education and orientation materials

Advocates for individuals, families for health system policies

Identifies Ontario Health atHome Mississauga Halton and regional learning needs and finds/develops programs/resourc