Job ID: 55747
Job Category: Health Services
Division & Section: Seniors Services & Long Term Care, LTC Regional Services
Work Location: Various, see below
Job Type & Duration: Part-time, indefinite
Hourly Rate and Wage Grade: $45.30 - $49.64 (Salary step determined based on relevant experience)
Shift Information: Monday to Sunday - Various Shifts (Days, Evenings, Night, and Weekends), up to 37.5 hours per week
Number of Positions Open: 5
Posting Period: 30-MAY-2025 to 13-JUN-2025

KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

• Current registration as a Registered Nurse (RN) in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing or an approved Registered Nursing program equivalent.
• Experience in long-term care environment, mental health, or geriatric populations.
• Experience working in a specialized behavioural program, or populations with responsive behaviours, or completion of behavioural management training.

• Develops, evaluates and modifies care plans for residents. Contribute to the development of the person-centred philosophy of care
• Conducts various nursing assessments as required and when there is a change in resident/client’s health status.
• Documents resident conditions and care provisions in the resident/client health care record.
• Provides nursing care, including counseling
• Directs staff by assigning duties and establishing priorities
• Examines, measures, and records temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, serum levels of glucose, weight, and neurological assessments using equipment, i.e. blood pressure cuff, glucometer, stethoscope, opthalmoscope
• Assesses the physical, emotional and psychological well being of resident/client through observation and analysis of test and physical health indicators to evaluate care plan and identify modifications which may be required
• Accompanies physician on rounds, providing information on resident/client condition and progress, and assisting with examinations, e.g., positioning, dressing and undressing residents/clients
• Transcribes verbal or written physician’s orders for medications or other treatments
• Prepares precise dosages of medication in accordance with physician’s orders, including narcotic and controlled drugs, and administers to residents/clients
• Maintains inventory, ensuring medications are properly stored, safe and secure
• Administers prescribed treatments as ordered by the physician, such as catheterizations, respiratory therapies, suctions, exercise, wound irrigations, and hot pack therapies using electronic/manual equipment for treatments, e.g., suction machine, hydrocullator
• Administers first aid and emergency health measures, such as CPR
• Prepares and applies clean and sterile dressings and bandages, and replaces, as required. Cleans wounds and lesions. Removes stitches and clips. Practices sterile techniques and other infection control procedures to minimize the transmission of infection
• Monitors and participates in the personal care of residents/clients, as required; for example, hygiene, feeding, positioning, transferring, ambulation, toileting
• Uses electric/hydraulic/manual equipment and lifting devices
• Checks resident/client diet for therapeutic composition
• Liaises, refers and advocates with community resources to coordinate admittances, transfers, and departures/deaths: hospitals (acute care, rehabilitation, and palliation), public health department, home care program, long term care facilities, ambulance services, diagnostic services, the coroner’s office and social services
• Prepares and maintains documentation such as charts, nursing records, statistics, and reports
• Performs delegated Medical Acts (duties) i.e. vaccinations, innoculations, eye irrigations, death pronouncement etc
• Counsels, instructs, and confers with resident/client and family in planning care: provides emotional support; responds to enquiries and resolves complaints
• Collaborates with the BSO Team in the development of behaviour management strategies
• Provides work direction, coaching and mentorship to BSU staff
• Collaborates with the Psychogeriatric Outreach Program (POP) Team, Psychogeriatric Resource Consultant (PRC), Ontario Health at Home, Acute Care, Tertiary Care, other LTC homes, families, and circle of care
• Maintains current knowledge of dementias, responsive behaviours, mental health, and relevant diagnoses
• Contributes to the BSO community of practice
• Assumes responsibility for personal development through participation in ongoing training to enhance skills
• Leads and participates in Behavioural Management rounds and care conferences as required
• Collaborates effectively when interacting with residents, family, team members and inter- professional care teams
• Trains student nurses
• Promotes the residents’ integration to their environment
• Provides information to identify caregiver strategies that are resident-centred, age appropriate, maintain the resident’s dignity when responding to the behaviours and managing the associated risks
• Documents observational behaviours, recognize that they have meaning, assess and account for how the behaviours impact the care delivery process.
• Performs other duties and tasks as assigned