| POSITION DESCRIPTION | FULL TIME, REGULAR POSITION
SALARY RANGE: $110,082 – $129,509
INCLUDES HEALTH BENEFITS AND HOOPP (HEALTHCARE OF ONTARIO PENSION PLAN)
South Riverdale Community Health Centre is a non-profit, multi-service organization that provides primary healthcare, social and community outreach services with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention primarily to people of East Toronto. Our mission is to improve the lives of people that face barriers to physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being. We do so by meaningfully engaging our clients and communities, ensuring equitable access to primary health care and delivering quality care through a range of evidence informed programs, services and approaches. As a leader in community health, our locally and internationally recognized community services include cutting-edge primary health services, health promotion, harm reduction, environmental health, community food centre and population-based community programs for marginalized peoples. We value health equity and inclusion and respect in our work and in the delivery of our services.
About COSS – East Toronto
The Crisis Outreach Service for Seniors (COSS) – East Toronto is a collaborative between South Riverdale CHC and Woodgreen Community Services. The model of care is Nurse Practitioner-led mobile on-call crisis intervention and outreach service for seniors with complex clinical and social needs, are frail, isolated or hard to reach, marginalized, and living with suspected or diagnosed mental health and/or substance use related medical concerns, including dementia. This service provides “short-term” response 365 days (1 year).
The Team:
As an inter-interdisciplinary, crisis intervention team comprising a Nurse Practitioner, Social Workers, and a support Manager, the COSS team provides timely interventions including crisis counseling, short-term intensive case management, harm reduction & concurrent disorders services, mental health & substance use supports, health assessment & care, and referral to long-term primary care for individuals no longer in crisis.
Area served:
This position covers East Toronto area as follows: Yonge Street to the west, Eglinton Avenue to the north, the Rouge River in the east and Lake Ontario to the south.
The Nurse Practitioner is a Nurse specialist in primary health care, who functions both independently and as a member of the primary care team, providing primary health care to the clients of the Centre and emphasizing health promotion, health education and disease prevention.
This position is expected to work onsite, and in the community.
Responsibilities:
• Assumes primary care responsibility for a small number of tenants, maintaining regular on-site presence at designated Toronto Housing Seniors building
• Promptly responds to crisis intervention requests involving older adults in the facility or community
• Conducts comprehensive physical and mental health assessments of the well person Assessments will include holistic health history taking, appropriate screening, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests and/or referral to specialists
• Assesses and manages episodic and stable chronic conditions commonly seen in primary health care, consulting with CHC physicians when issues present that go beyond the RN(EC) scope of practice
• Performs telephone screening when necessary, which may include patient referral, health care advice for acute or chronic conditions, anticipatory guidance, and offering guidance to receptionists where appropriate
• Assess patient capacity to handle activities of daily living, including (safe) decision making.
• Appropriately collecting, storing and safely transporting blood and other patient samples while working in the community
• Developing effective care plans through engaging patients, other providers including allied health care providers, and where appropriate, coordinate support with patient-authorized social supports (family, friend, care-giver(s) or neighbour(s)
• Provides supportive and lifestyle counselling to patients. This may include short-term crisis management, preventative counselling, brief supportive counselling in the absence of social worker support
• Appropriately Writes/renews prescriptions and orders laboratory tests within the RN(EC) scope of practice
• Conducts home visits to clients who live within the program’s catchment area as necessary
• Makes internal referrals to other SRCHC and Woodgreen services as appropriate
• Refers clients to specialist, hospital or community resources as appropriate
• Call or participates in case conferences and other client-focused interprofessional supports and discussions including legal and health to ensure appropriate decision-making, good management of care and accountability
• Ensures that standards of client care are maintained according to accepted College of Nurses standards, the Regulated Health Professions Act, and the policies of SRCHC (and Woodgreen Community Services)
For full position details and application instructions, please refer to our website at: https://www.srchc.ca/jobs/nurse-practitioner-coss/
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