Registered Practical Nurse
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30+ days ago
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Job Summary
Union: SEIU Queens Estate
Number of vacancies: 1
Site:Queens Estate
Department:UHN Transitional Care Program
Reports to:Manager - UHN Transitional Care Program
Hours: 0.45 FTE
Wage Range: $37.33 - $38.16 per hour (start rate non-negotiable)
Shifts:12 hours - Rotating days/nights/weekends/holidays
Status: Temporary Part-Time 0.45 FTE (Contract End Date: July 24 2026)
Closing Date: October 9th 2025
Position Summary:
UHN Transitional Care Program is located at Queens Estate provides goal oriented short-term care to clients from the community or acute care ALC or at risk of ALC who requires support to complete their restorative process and strengthen their functional capacity to return home or another discharge location.
Duties:
- Provide education to patients and families regarding relevant deficits and related health promotion interventions
- Works effectively independently as well as collaboratively with inter-professional team
- Contributes to the care planning process and follows a designed plan of care
- Provides safe competent care within Scope of Practice
- Actively participates in education/mentorship of RPN students and new staff
- Actively participates in professional program and hospital-wide initiatives
- Compliance with and commitment to patient safety responsibilities and corresponding hospital plans policies and procedures in order to ensure a safe environment for patients
Qualifications :
- Member in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Diploma preparation as an RPN in a recognized education program for Nursing preferred
- Current medication certificate (if not included in diploma program)
- Medical asepsis preferred (if not included in diploma program)
- Experience in Complex Continuing Care preferred
- Successful completion of Basic Cardiac Life Support (C level) Heart Saver Plus (Canada)
- Member Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO) preferred
- Well developed conceptual and theoretical understanding of nursing concepts as they relate to patient population and an ability to articulate these concepts
- Well developed clinical decision-making skills that reflect patient centeredness problem solving and critical thinking
- Excellent communication interpersonal and leadership skills
Additional Information :
Why join UHN
In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world UHN offers a wide range of benefits programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor allowing you to find value where it matters most to you now and throughout your career at UHN.
- Competitive offer packages
- Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP access to Transit
- A flexible work environment
- Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
- Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel restaurants parking phone plans auto insurance discounts on-site gyms etc.)
Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHNs attendance management program to be eligible for consideration.
All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.
UHN uses email to communicate with selected candidates. Please ensure you check your email regularly.
Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading inaccurate or incorrect UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.
UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.
We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Contract
Key Skills
- EMR Systems
- Hospital Experience
- Acute Care
- ICU Experience
- Hospice Care
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Catheterization
- Critical Care Experience
- Medication Administration
- Tube Feeding
About Company
The University Health Network, where above all else the needs of patients come first, encompasses Toronto General Hospital, Toronto Western Hospital, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and the Michener Institute of Education. The breadth of research, t ... View more
