Job Title: Nurse Practitioner, Interprofessional Primary Care Team
Position Type: Full-Time and Part-Time Contract (12 Months with the possibility of extension)
Hours: 35 hours/week (1.0 FTE)
Salary: $ 108,911.64 – $126,258.44
Location: Downtown Toronto, On-Site
Bargaining Unit: OPSEU Local 5115
Application: Email resume and cover letter to [email protected]
Deadline: November 29, 2024
The Interprofessional Primary Care Team (IPCT) is an initiative by the Downtown East Ontario Health Team (DETOHT) that brings together Regent Park CHC, St. Michael’s FHT, Inner City FHT, and Sherbourne Health FHT to enhance access to interdisciplinary primary care for individuals in the downtown east of Toronto, including Moss Park, St. Jamestown, and Regent Park, who face significant financial challenges, housing insecurity, and other forms of marginalization. The DETOHT comprises 43 health and social service organizations deeply rooted in the community, aiming to provide seamless, inclusive, and high-quality care through an integrated system. The DETOHT’s initiatives focus on priority populations, such as people experiencing homelessness and those with mental health and addiction issues, guided by principles of client and family-centred care, health equity, diversity, transparent collaboration, quality improvement, and responsive leadership.
Inner City Family Health Team is recruiting a Nurse Practitioner to support patient attachment to primary care services. The Inner-City Family Health Team is a multidisciplinary team providing health services to unhoused or marginally housed clients. The Nurse Practitioner (NP) will work closely with the DETOHT ICPT central navigation team and the four primary care organizations within the Downtown East Ontario Health Team (DET OHT) to deliver integrated services with an emphasis on health stabilization and fostering strong, ongoing attachment to primary care.
The NP will provide comprehensive primary care to a diverse population facing significant barriers to healthcare, assisting patients in managing chronic conditions, preventing illnesses, promoting health, and effectively navigating the healthcare system.
Responsibilities:
- Integrate a broad knowledge base to perform holistic health assessments to obtain the required information to determine diagnoses, client needs and associated interventions
- Work closely with ICFHT’s multidisciplinary team and the DETOHT ICPT project team to provide primary care
- Provide primary care in a number of locations including the primary care clinic, home visits, satellite clinics, health bus, urban parks and shelters
- Provide support and coverage to other IPCT’s Nurse Practitioners working out of the partnering primary care organizations
- Provide comprehensive primary care for clients referred as part of the DETOHT ICPT project with substance use issues, mental health issues, acute medical issues, postoperative care, injuries, cancer treatment, and/or acute exacerbation of chronic issues.
- Provide independent care within the scope of practice outlined by the College of Nurses.
- Work within the Nurse Practitioners scope of practice to perform assessments, make diagnoses of disease and disorder, monitor ongoing therapy of patients with stable chronic illnesses, order diagnostic tests and interpret results and prescribe medications
- Integrate a broad knowledge base to perform holistic health assessments, obtaining the required information to determine diagnoses, client needs, and associated interventions
- Collaborate with team members, agency partners, clients, and communities to plan, implement, and deliver low-barrier, client-centred and coordinated care.
- Perform outreach to marginalized individuals and groups, advocating for clients and supporting community development.
- Work collaboratively with clients to identify and mitigate health risks, promote understanding of health issues, and support healthy behaviours.
Qualifications
- A generalist Nurse Practitioner holds an Extended Class Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
- A minimum of 2 years of clinical experience as a Nurse Practitioner with a preferred minimum of three years as a Registered Nurse.
- Identification with BIPOC communities considered an asset
- Demonstrated understanding of working within an anti-oppression framework
- Experience providing direct support to individuals from marginalized communities including those who experience homelessness, substance use, mental health, poverty and racialized communities
- Demonstrated commitment to client-centred, community-based care
- Experience working in community-based primary care
- Experience and comfort working with an electronic medical record (EMR)
- Knowledge and proficiency in current, evidence-based methods and practices in healthcare delivery, with an emphasis on mental health promotion and risk reduction
- Working knowledge of acts, legislation, and professional standards that govern nursing practice, including the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA), Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) and the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) Standards and Guidelines
- Ability to maintain professional practice regarding commitments to colleagues and clients, pertinent legislation, evidence-based standards of care and professional standards of practice.
- Knowledge of the Health Care system, social determinants of health and community resources
- Ability to work collaboratively within and across teams
- Lived Experience accessing primary care services in Downtown East Toronto an asset.
We strongly encourage applicants who reflect Toronto’s Indigenous, Black and culturally diverse communities to apply.
Qualified applicants should send in a cover letter and resume by November 29, 2024, to [email protected].
We thank all applicants for their interest in this position; however, we will only be contacting those selected for an interview.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $108,911.64-$126,258.44 per year
Flexible language requirement:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Experience:
- Nurse Practitioner: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 2024-11-29
