PROGRAM AREA: Primary Health

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Part-Time, Contract October 2024-July 2025

HOURS/WEEK: 21 hours per week

Our Vision

A community without barriers to health and wellbeing.

Our Mission

We reduce health inequities by providing interprofessional primary health services and community programs, focused on the populations we prioritize, in collaboration with community partners.

Our Values

Innovation, Accountability, Person-Centred, Health Promotion, Excellence, Sustainability, Accessibility

Guelph Community Health Centre prioritizes people who face barriers to health and accessing services, and people who identify as:

• Homeless or at risk of homelessness
• Living on low income
• Newcomers to Canada with language barriers
• Having moderate to severe mental health and/or addiction issues
• Having moderate to severe disabilities
• Indigenous First Nations, Inuit and Métis
• Black, mixed race and racialized populations
• Experiencing intersectional oppression
• 2SLGBTQIA+
• Vulnerable children and their families experiencing conflict, isolation or attachment struggles

Working as part of an interdisciplinary team to provide clinical health services for clients and members of our priority populations, the Nurse Practitioner (NP) provides specialized health care with a strong emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention within the scope of practice and standards of care outlined in the Expanded Nursing Services for Patients Act and Regulations and the Practice Expectations Specific to Registered Nurses in the Extended Class (NPs). The NP diagnoses and manages common health problems and diseases both independently and in collaboration with the client and the physician. The Nurse Practitioner works as part of an interdisciplinary team to address issues in the community that affect health. They are responsible and accountable for their practice.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing, comprehensive health care to clients within priority population group, including addressing the health care needs of clients. This may include comprehensive assessments, diagnosis, counselling, screening, referral, education, treatment and follow-up, supportive client counseling, and crisis intervention.
• Determine the presence of existing and potential health problems, with a major focus on lifestyle, psychological, sociocultural and environmental risk factors that may influence the client's health status.
• Ensure appropriate, comprehensive treatment is delivered and maintain complete, accurate, and timely electronic medical records.
• Participate in chart reviews, discussion of problem cases, and client inquiries
• Refer to specialists, hospitals, or other agencies as required
• Work within a determinants of health framework which emphasizes health promotion and education, disease prevention and recognizes the special risk factors (social, physical, psychological etc.) which may affect the health of clients
  
• Assure standards of patient care are maintained in accordance with accepted current best practice guidelines & Guelph CHC policy.
• Maintains client confidentiality and acts in an ethical and professional manner in accordance with the codes of conduct prescribed by the College of Nurses and in accordance with the Centre's policies.
• Participates in other GCHC programs/projects, as appropriate.

Key Qualifications and Skills

• Registration in the Extended Class with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Member of the Nurse Practitioners Association of Ontario
• Experience working with communities and individuals who face barriers to accessing health care due illness and other factors known to be the determinants of health (poverty, education, language barriers, discriminations, mental health and substance use issues, etc.).
• Previous experience in community health/social services and/or a values-based organization is an asset
• Provides education and client centered care in a respectful and supportive manner,
  
• Able to independently manage complex clients with comorbidities and vulnerabilities, consulting as appropriate
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to prioritize and multi-task.
• Respectful, empathic listening with explanations geared to the clients abilities to understand.
• Experience working with cultural interpreters an asset.
• Proficient in the use of computers and various other software applications including Word, Outlook, PSS and electronic health records
• Understand and are committed to the Mission, Vision and Values of the Guelph CHC.
  

Please visit our website at www.guelphchc.ca and apply using the online application tool.

Guelph Community Health Centre is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including individuals from priority populations who may identify as 2SLGBTQIA+, persons with disabilities, Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis individuals, and members of Black and other racialized communities.

We thank, in advance, those who apply, but will contact only those who qualify for interviews.

If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.
We require that all finalist applicants undergo a Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screen through their local Police Services Branch prior to start date.