WellFort is seeking a Pediatric Nurse to join our team!
Pediatric Nurse – Part time Permanent 0.8 FTE
WellFort Community Health Services is a non-profit, values-based organization based in Peel. We provide a wide variety of comprehensive care including primary care, dental, mental health, and chronic disease management with a focus on illness prevention, health promotion and community development. We work with residents and other agencies to increase community capacity.
WellFort is committed to providing inclusive, accessible, and sustainable programs and services to a diversely rich community.
Members of the WellFort Family include:
- Bloom Clinic
- Bramalea Community Health Centre
- Diabetes Education Program
- Four Corners Health Centre
- Health n’ Smiles
The Pediatric Nurse (PN) provides primary health care to clients and the community. The PN works as a part of the inter-disciplinary team functioning both independently and with other staff in clinical and outreach activities.
While the proportion of time allocated to different functions may vary according to service needs, the nursing role encompasses a combination of direct care, health promotion and education, advocacy, community development, program development and evaluation.
What you will do:
The PN assists in the delivery of primary care services and promotes healthy lifestyle choices for the residents of the community. The PN provides holistic care and acts as an entry point into the broader health or social service system including:
- Assist the health care team to plan and evaluate programs and develop or initiate health teaching, screening programs or workshops by identifying health needs of individual clients, families and community groups.
- Perform clinical tasks by conducting nursing assessments, health education/counselling, history taking, performing specific procedures according to the College of Nurses of Ontario standards of nursing practice and providing follow-up care.
- Participate in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of treatment, education, counselling, and health promotion services for individuals, families, and the community.
What you will need:
- Diploma or degree in nursing from a recognized community college or university. Baccalaureate degree an asset.
- Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario and in good standing.
- Pediatric care nursing experience in a variety of primary care settings one of which must be community health.
- Experience working with communities and individuals who face barriers accessing tradition health care institutions such as poverty, discrimination, mental health, and substance use issues.
- An understanding of and critical analysis of the determinants of health and social factors, such as power dynamics that affect individual, organizational and community health.
- Excellent written communication and oral skills that meet the needs of the individual and/or community at the appropriate literacy level.
- Experience working with confidential and time sensitive documents and information.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working in a value based non-profit or social services organization.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and interdependently in an interdisciplinary team environment in which the skills and responsibilities of each team member are recognized and respected.
- Demonstrated proficiency in use of computers and various computer software applications, such as Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
- Ability to speak languages relevant to the residents of the organization’s community is an asset.
Candidates who self-identify as being from a marginalized community, including people with lived/living experience of drug use and/or houselessness, Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, newcomers, and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons, are encouraged to apply and will be prioritized. We invite these candidates to indicate their relevant identities in their cover letters.
Requests for accommodation due to disability can be made at any stage in the recruitment process.
The successful candidate will demonstrate a willingness to participate in WellFort’s commitment to becoming an inclusive, barrier-free health centre and an ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
For more information visit www.WellFort.ca
Salary: RN $64,094 - $75,638 and RPN $46,067 - $54,228 prorated to FTE (consideration of experience). Compensation package includes health and dental benefits and HOOPP pension benefits.
Interested applicants:
Forward your resume and cover letter to hiring@wellfort.ca. Open until filled
Quote “PN0324” in the subject line
No phone calls please. Successful candidates will be contacted
VACCINATION REQUIREMENT:
As a condition of employment, new WellFort staff must be fully vaccinated unless they have received an exemption from vaccination under the Human Rights Code. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status will be required before the first day of work or, proof of religious or medical exemption, if or where applicable.
Fully vaccinated is defined as having received the completed series of an accepted COVID-19 vaccine, as recommended by the Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health and having received the final dose at least 14 days before your employment start date.
The candidate will be asked to provide WellFort with proof of full vaccination, prior to their employment start date. Acceptable proof is a Ministry of Health Dose Administration Receipt (or such other proof of vaccination that the Province of Ontario sanctions). This can be obtained through the Provincial portal https://covid-19.ontario.ca/get-proof/.
The requirement to be fully vaccinated is subject to the Ontario Human Rights Code. If the candidate is unable to vaccinate for a reason protected by the Code, a request for accommodation can be requested and written proof satisfactory to the organization will be required.