Job Description
Casual
Long-Term Care, Fogo Island Health Center, Fogo Island
Long-Term Care, Notre Dame Bay Memorial Health Centre, Twillingate
Definition of work: The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is responsible to provide comprehensive assessment and care to clients. This is an advance practice role providing professional, analytical and an autonomous, comprehensive range of health services to clients and patients including but not limited to health assessments and diagnosis of diseases, disorders, injuries and conditions; treating and managing acute and chronic illnesses and identifying health risks and needs.
The NP will provide advanced nursing care including promoting health and well-being, preventing illness and injury, providing supportive care including palliation and treating illness and injury for residents in long term care in the Fogo Island Health Centre on Fogo Island and the Notre Dame Bay Memorial Health Centre in Twillingate.
The successful candidate will assume a leadership role in influencing clinical practice and health outcomes, while collaborating with physicians, the broader healthcare team and community partners regarding complex and challenging resident/client care. The NP will ensure person and family centered care that wraps available resources around the individual wherever the individual resides.
The successful candidate will work with the Clinical Nurse Educator/Facilitator in the development and evaluation of policies, standards of care and clinical services for long term care residents at the Fogo Island Health Centre and Notre Dame Bay Memorial Health Centre. The NP will demonstrate a person and family centered philosophy to care and establish a preventative, integrated, approach that is driven by individualized assessment of needs and individual choice to promote aging in place. The successful candidate must demonstrate an awareness of and be responsible for promoting and supporting person-and family-centred care, demonstrate a commitment to safety and partner with all team members to improve worker and patient safety by integrating safety into work practices, identifying risks and implementing improvements.
Required qualifications:
* Graduation from a nurse practitioner program approved by Central Health.
* Current registration as a nurse practitioner with the Association of Registered Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador.
* Current BLS certification for health care providers from the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
* Gentle Persuasive Approach or willingness to complete next available course.
* CNA certification in Gerontology or willingness to complete next available course.
* Demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities and problem solving skills as well as oral and written communication skills.
* Demonstrated ability to work well independently and in an interdisciplinary team
environment.
* A satisfactory record of work performance and attendance is required for this position.
* A satisfactory Certificate of Conduct from the RCMP or local police authority.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Demonstrated skill in using health care based computer systems such as Meditech.
* Completion or willingness to complete next available course in ACLS, PALS, TNCC and NRP.
Hours of work: Call as needed (Shift work may be required)
Salary: NS-35 ($50.28-$62.40)
Competition number: P-2019000530-NDB
Competition closing date: Open Untill Filled
Central Health is an equal opportunity employer.
We thank all candidates however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
