Nurse Practitioner, Neonatal Intensive Care
Job Number: 119759
Job: Nursing
Primary Location: Ontario-Hamilton
This position will be located at: McMaster Children's Hospital
Organization: Neonatal Intensive Care
Status: Regular Full-time
Hours per week: 37.5
Number of Openings: 1
Union Code: Non Union Employees
Salary: 58.4200 - 74.9000 Hourly
Post Date: Jul 17, 2025, 8:21:21 AM
Close Date (Period for Applying) - External: Sep 11, 2025, 10:59:00 PM

Unit Summary

Step into a job that opens countless doors. As one of Canada's largest and most diverse hospitals, we're providing advanced care to people of all ages from across the province. You can explore advancement opportunities, take professional development courses, and stretch yourself as a leader, all at HHS. We are the largest employer in the greater Hamilton region, and play a vital role in training the next generation of health professionals in collaboration with our academic partners, including McMaster University and Mohawk College. Hamilton Health Sciences is a hospital system of 18,000 staff, physicians, researchers and volunteers that proudly serves south central Ontario residents. We also provide specialized, advanced care to people from across the province.

McMaster Children's Hospital (MCH), located on the McMaster University campus in Hamilton's beautiful Westdale neighbourhood, has been providing care to children from across the region since 1988. Here, patients ranging in age from infancy to 17 benefit from a family-centred approach that prioritizes the child's emotional, mental and physical well-being. The hospital is home to the fastest-growing kids-only emergency department in Ontario, one of Canada's most advanced neonatal intensive care units, and a range of programs and clinics with unique expertise in a number of areas including children's cancer, digestive diseases, and mental health.

The NICU at McMaster Children's Hospital (MCH) is the largest of its kind in Canada, providing tertiary-level specialized care to over 1,500 critically ill newborns per year and serving a broad geographic region in southern Ontario. The NICU supports a diverse and complex range of medical and surgical care needs for both inborn and out-born infants, working very closely with an active in-house obstetrical program that sees over 3,800 births per year and includes the provision of high-risk pregnancy care through the Maternal Fetal Medicine service. MCH NICU also operates a Neonatal Transport Team, supporting hospitals across southern Ontario and in collaboration with provincial partners. The large interdisciplinary NICU team provides family-centered care with a strong focus on evidence-based best practices and continuous quality improvement. The NICU team is actively involved as leaders in a number of productive and impactful research activities and collaborative quality improvement initiatives provincially, nationally and internationally.

Position Summary

The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a key clinical leader and critical member of a dynamic provider team in the NICU that includes Neonatologists, Neonatal Fellows and Physician Assistants. Providers work very closely and collaboratively with a large extended interdisciplinary care team to diagnose and treat all conditions affecting critically ill and convalescing newborns. In addition to direct clinical care, the NICU NP fulfills other domains of practice embedded in the role including education, research, quality improvement, and leadership - with a range of opportunities to become directly involved in each of these areas. The NICU NP is eligible for clinical cross-appointment with the Faculty of Nursing at McMaster University. The NICU NP orientation and training program is tailored to meet individual learning and development needs, taking into account prior experience and preparation. For Nurse Practitioners who are new to a tertiary level NICU, an internal NP residency training program is available to support individual learning, development, knowledge and skill acquisition; utilizing structured didactic and clinical education experiences to support development over a period of up to 12 months before transitioning to independent practice.

This role is eligible for additional financial incentives of up to $25,000. For further information please contact

Schedule Work Hours

Days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays

Qualifications

Current Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Nurse in the Extended Class

Advanced preparation at the Masters level with specialized training in neonatology or pediatrics

Current NRP certification

Current BCLS certification

Minimum 2 years of nursing experience in a Level III NICU preferred

Advanced knowledge of preterm and full-term infant pathophysiology

Knowledge of the Regulated Health Professions Act

Knowledge of trauma-informed care and supporting families prenatally, during the birth process, and in crisis/stressful situations in a critical care setting

Strong critical analysis, problem-solving and assessment skills to formulate medical and nursing diagnoses

Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with members of a diverse inter-professional healthcare team to provide and promote patient-centered care in a fast-paced, dynamic and clinically complex environment

Guidelines

Hamilton Health Sciences fosters a culture of patient and staff safety, whereby all employees are guided by our Mission, Vision, Values, and Values Based Code of Conduct. Hamilton Health Sciences is a teaching hospital and all staff and physicians are expected to support students and other learners.

To be considered for this opportunity applicants must apply during the posting period. All internal and external applicants may ONLY apply via the Careers website.

Hamilton Health Sciences is an equal opportunity employer and we will accommodate any needs under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Hiring processes will be modified to remove barriers to accommodate those with disabilities, if requested. Should any applicant require accommodation through the application processes, please contact HR Operations at , Ext. 46947 for assistance. If the applicant requires a specific accommodation because of a disability during an interview, the applicant will need to advise the hiring manager when scheduling the interview and the appropriate accommodations can be made.

This competition is open to all qualified applicants, however, qualified internal applicants will be considered first. Past performance will be considered as part of the selection process. If you are a previous employee of Hamilton Health Sciences, please note: the circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment. Proficiency in both Official Languages, French and English, is considered an asset.

If this position is temporary, selection for this position will be as per the outlined Collective Agreements:

Article 30 (k), CUPE Collective Agreement

Article 10.7 (d), ONA Collective Agreement

Article 13.01 (b) (ii), OPSEU 273 Collective Agreement

Article 14.04, OPSEU 209 Collective Agreement

Article 2.07 and Article 13, PIPSC RT Collective Agreement