Nurse Practitioner

Allianceon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services is seeking a Master’s prepared RN (EC) who is an active Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner. You will deliver client-centred primary care in the Jane Clinic, Toronto, within an interdisciplinary team and across diverse populations.

You will manage an independent caseload, perform assessments, diagnoses, screenings, referrals, and follow-up, while maintaining records and contributing to program evaluation and quality assurance.

Qualifications

• Masters prepared RN (EC) and active registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner.
• Two years experience working in primary care.
• Experience with Newcomer populations is preferred.
• Experience in community or primary health care settings is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary care to clients within the RN-EC scope, including assessments, diagnosis, screening, education and follow up.
• Manage an independent caseload with triage needs and ordering/interpretation of tests and imaging.
• Coordinate referrals and coordinate with the interdisciplinary team for care plans.
• Maintain complete and accurate client records and ensure continuity of care.
• Participate in primary health care program delivery and quality/performance evaluation.

Skills

RN-EC scope

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Patient care

Education

Masters prepared RN (EC)

Job description

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Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services (AAMHCS) is a Community Health Centre that aims to provide services and addresses system inequities to improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities. The Centre envisions a future in which Toronto’s diverse communities achieve health with dignity.

We are looking for a diligent, organized and dedicated individual who is calm and solution focused to be part of the Centre’s Primary Care Team. The successful candidate will work within a collaborative and interdisciplinary model of health and wellbeing, provide care and take part in planning and evaluation. Within the NP scope of practice, the successful candidate will provide primary care services in our Jane Clinic. This role is vital in addressing population and individual health concerns, ensuring clients receive timely, high-quality care in a dynamic clinical environment. Through the Primary Care Clinic, the NP will support other primary care initiatives and work with specific immigrant, refugee and non-status populations that include women, 2SLGBTQI+, youth, children and families.

Responsibilities:

Providing primary care to clients of all ages within the scope of a RN-EC including assessments, diagnosis, screening, referral, education, treatment, counselling and follow up;

Delivering client centred primary care focused on comprehensive, ongoing health needs, including assessment, management, prevention, health promotion and continuity of cart, while prioritizing client-based complexity and clinical needs for appropriate referrals and coordination follow up;

Ability to manage an independent caseload that can include triage and determines the need for orders and interprets screening and diagnostic laboratory tests, chest and limb x-rays, diagnostic ultrasounds and screening mammography;

Reviews client health, and, in cooperation with the client and other members of the team, direction for prioritization and recommendation concerning treatment, prevention and health promotion options;

Tailor care approaches to meet the specific health requirements of the populations served, recognizing diverse health disparities;

Provides appropriate, treatment and supports continuity of care through maintaining complete and accurate client records;

Participating in primary health care program and service delivery within the broader community context in partnerships with other institutions as may be required from time to time;

• Participating in all organizational systems and structures as required including but not limited to, quality assurance and performance evaluation.

The ideal candidate will have a firm understanding of and a commitment to the principles and underlying values of community health centers/model of health and well-being as well as:

Required:

• Masters prepared RN (EC) mandatory
• Active registration and good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner
• Two years experience working as a primary care

Preferred:

• Experience working with Newcomer populations
• Experience in community or primary health care settings
• Experience in an episodic and primary care or urgent care clinic or equivalent
• Experience in conducting thorough health assessments that include gathering information about relevant medical/family history, pre-existing conditions, current medications
• Strong cultural competency skills and ability to recognize and respect cultural differences
• Experience with chronic disease management such as diabetes or hypertension and ability to provide education and support to patients and their families
• Strong interpersonal skills, including active listening, empathy and effective communication
• Thorough familiarity with therapeutic methods and practices based upon a health promotion/disease prevention model
• Ability to work collaboratively within the interdisciplinary health care team which includes physicians, nurses, social workers, dieticians, physiotherapist, health coaches and community workers

Asset:

• Knowledge of immigration policies and laws that affect the population served is preferred
• Experience with trauma-informed care
• Experience in navigation to help clients access the resources they need to receive quality care
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (written and verbal) and problem-solving, organizational and time management skills
• Strong digital/computer literacy skills and comfort with digital/virtual platforms and service delivery
• Knowledge of issues affecting low income, multi-lingual, and racialized, and 2SLGBTQI+ communities
• Experience with working with low-income, multilingual, multiracial populations and communities
• Ability to speak multiple/second language(s)

Access Alliance offers comprehensive group benefits coverage, annual vacation entitlement, cumulative sick leave entitlement, employee assistance programs. Access Alliance is a HOOPP employer.

Please be advised that our organization requires all staff, students, and volunteers must be fully vaccinated. Proof of vaccination can be obtained from the Ministry site.

Please note that a criminal background check (Vulnerable sector) will be conducted for this position.

We encourage applications from individuals who reflect the broad diversity of communities we work with, including those from racialized and 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Access Alliance encourages a scent-free environment. Employees, students, volunteers, and visitors are asked to refrain from wearing fragrances and other scented personal care products (i.e. perfumes, lotions, hairspray, etc.) while at the Centre.