Registered Practical Nurse-Home Care

St. Joseph’s Home Care; Hamilton; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in home care is seeking dedicated Registered Practical Nurses to enhance the lives of clients through compassionate care. In this full-time role, you will provide essential nursing services, ensuring compliance with standards while promoting client independence. Join a supportive team that values professional development and quality care, and contribute to the health of the community. If you are passionate about nursing and eager to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered Practical Nurses must have a current RPN registration.
• Experience in specific nursing care is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality nursing care and maintain compliance with professional standards.
• Conduct assessments and engage with clients and families.

Skills

Compassionate Care

Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Analytical Thinking

Education

Practical Nursing Diploma

IV Medication Administration Certificate

Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)

Tools

Electronic Medical Record Systems

Job description

Registered Practical Nurse

Number of Openings: 3

Division: Nursing

Full/Part Time/Casual: Full Time

Program: Visiting Nursing

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Location: Hamilton

Union: LIUNA

Hours of Work: Days shift (8am-4pm)
*approx. 75 hours bi-weekly
*Weekend rotation 1/3

Posting Date: January 27, 2025

Closing Date: February 3rd, 2025

Wages: LIUNA Union Wage Grid
$26.72- $28.97

French Language Skill Requirement: N/A

POSITION SUMMARY:

St. Joseph’s Home Care is dedicated to providing quality and compassionate care to individuals in their homes and/or alternative settings on a visiting or shift care basis. Registered Practical Nurses enhance the life of their clients by providing a range of care to clients with predictable outcomes, within the framework of SJHC’s policies and procedures and the standards of practice prescribed by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Through their work, Registered Practical Nurses contribute to the healing and independence of their clients and promote the continual improvement of the overall health of the community.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Providing quality nursing care, within the scope of practice and in accordance with the professional regulating body
• Maintaining knowledge and compliance to the Professional Standards
• Following nursing processes and practices in an effective and efficient manner
• Ensuring the maintenance of high-quality nursing skills, applying current knowledge to nursing care
• Complying with all SJHC nursing practices, processes and work instructions
• Reviewing and following the plan of nursing care, including discharge plans
• Engaging in consultation / liaison with clients, their families/caregivers, physical, multi-discipline team members, and other external stakeholders as required (e.g. HCCSS, ICC Care Coordinators)
• Evaluating and monitoring care plans on an ongoing basis
• Assisting other clinical programs if requested or required
• Participating in regular and ongoing professional development / learning opportunities, with the goal of obtaining more advanced or specialized nursing skills, as may be necessary for organizational advancement
• Completing self-appraisals in keeping with the College of Nurses of Ontario Standards of Practice and SJHC internal practices
• Acts as an advocate for patients, families and their caregivers through reviewing and interpreting information, supporting decision making and facilitating communications
• Completing comprehensive nursing assessments
• Conducting virtual care visits as necessary to program and/or scope of practice

Operational Responsibilities:

• Completing program, clinical or organizational documentation in a timely and accurate manner
• Participating in organizational learning opportunities as appropriate (e.g., Surge Learning)
• Engaging on organizational working groups as appropriate (e.g., JH&SC, Quality Committee)
• Effectively utilizing organizational tools, software, devices in the application of daily work, willingness and ability to learn new technical skills as operational or patient needs change
• Willingness and ability to provide care in a variety of geographical locations (e.g. Central Hamilton), patient care environments (e.g. apartment building), or institutional care settings (e.g. Long Term Care)
• Willingness and ability to act as coach/mentor/Preceptor to new nurses through knowledge sharing and peer to peer support

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Regularly demonstrates our mission, vision and values:
• Support compassionate care, faith and diversity
• Deliver quality care, pursue and share knowledge, respect diversity, remain faithful
• Commit to working every day with dignity, respect, service, justice, responsibility and enquiry
• Ability to work collaboratively with others; sharing expertise and drawing on the expertise of others
• Actively promotes a healthy, supportive and inclusive work environment
• Proactively contributes to initiatives, supporting and encouraging positive change
• Ability to engage in effective problem solving, possess logic and analytical thinking
• Skilled at thinking about creative solutions to complex problems
• Solid team-based approach to everyday work activities
• Superior communication skills both verbal and written, with an excellent customer service mindset
• Positive and professional, with a “can do” attitude
• Willingness to regularly go the extra mile and actively support co-workers/direct reports
• Ability to demonstrate leadership and mentoring skills, to motivate and help others grow
• Strong knowledge of quality outcomes and streaming processes in order to find efficiencies
• Strong abilities in program planning, implementation, evaluation
• Superior organizational and planning skills
• Proven ability to be detail-oriented
• Maintaining ongoing compliance to corporate policies and procedures, health and safety regulations, and relevant external standards
• Participating fully in both internal and external training requirements
• Participating fully in corporate quality initiatives
• Maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of all personal health records (including both client and personal), and following all the privacy and confidentiality requirements of any and all electronic medical record systems used (including but not limited to Procura and HPG)

KEY EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• One of either of the following - required

1. Practical Nursing Diploma from an accredited college program + IV medication administration as part of the basic educational curriculum OR
2. Practical Nursing Diploma from an accredited college program + IV medication administration certificate OR
3. Practical Nursing Certificate from an accredited college program + a medication administration certificate + an IV medication administration certificate

Current and unrestricted RPN registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario - required

Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) - required

Previous experience with specific nursing care (palliative, diabetic, COPD, patrilineal dialysis, etc.,) - preferred

St. Joseph’s Home Care is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equity, inclusiveness, and diversity across all our programs, practices, facilities, and team. AI is not used in our recruitment processes for the selection of candidates.

If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, such as alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms, please inform the hiring manager before your interview. Should you wish to conduct your interview in French, kindly contact our head office to arrange this in advance.

*refer to the collective agreement for hours of work and weekend rotation