POSITION DESCRIPTION

Choosing to work for The Hospital for Sick Children means that you’ve chosen more than a job, you’ve chosen a career where you can have a meaningful impact on the lives of children, youth and families every day. Our staff are our greatest strength and SickKids works hard to provide a supportive working environment where Nurse Practitioners can give their best work possible. Working in collaboration with the interprofessional health care team, Nurse Practitioners at SickKids have the opportunity to provide expertise in the areas of:

• Clinical Practice
• Education, Mentorship, Research and Knowledge Translation
• Leadership and Organizational & Systems Management

SickKids is recognized as one of the world’s foremost paediatric health-care institutions and is Canada’s leading centre dedicated to advancing children’s health. Nurse Practitioners play a critical role to our success. We are currently looking for a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner to join the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Neonatology Program. As a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, you will provide leadership and promote inter-professional excellence and collaboration in child and family-centred -care within the five main role components of expert practice, education, consultation, research and leadership/change agency in a dynamic clinical environment.

• Provide comprehensive health care for critically ill newborns within the NICU, coordinating the interdisciplinary plan of care
• Integrate nursing and medical skills and knowledge within a broad scope of advanced nursing practice
• Provide leadership in advancing clinical practice and the provision of safe and high quality child and family-centred care
• Foster interprofessional collaboration in the coordination of plans of care
• Assume a leadership role in advancing the quality of clinical practice and the provision of high quality, safe care
• Provide mentorship and coaching to support the development of nursing and Interprofessional colleagues
• Identify, integrate and evaluate research-based innovations for improving patient care
• Create, utilize and/or disseminate new knowledge using formal and informal channels
• Provide relevant health education to families that is based on their needs, learning styles and stage of development
• Provide leadership in planning for successful transition of infants outside of the NICU (within SickKids, as well as to referral hospitals)
• Identify and link to services and resources in community, provide assistance with acquiring specialized medical care for infants in the program and participate/lead in planning for transition of care
• Provide specialty consultation regarding neonatal care for teams within and outside of the hospital