Job Description

Nurse Practitioner, Temporary Full-Time (Approximately 18 months)Long Term Care, New Long-Term Care Facility, Gander

This is an advanced practice nursing role providing professional, person and family-centered, health services which include diagnosing, ordering, and interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing pharmaceuticals and performing specific procedures within the legislated scope of practice. The Nurse Practitioner (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, personal care homes, patients in acute care and clients in the community setting. The NP will work in partnership with multidisciplinary teams in long term care, personal care, acute care and community settings, to develop, lead, implement and evaluate best practice, policies, and standards of care and clinical services. The NP 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 NP will establish a preventative, integrated, person and family centered approach 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-centered 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 with ARNNL as a Nurse Practitioner (Family All Ages or Primary Health Care) or eligibility to register as a Nurse Practitioner.
* Current BLS certification.
* Demonstrated knowledge of community, personal care and long-term care health services.
* CNA certification in Gerontology or willingness to complete within a reasonable time frame.
* Gentle Persuasive Approach or willingness to complete within a reasonable time frame.
* Demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities and problem-solving skills, as well as, oral and written communication skills.
* Demonstrated ability to work well independently and with others in an interdisciplinary team environment.
* Demonstrated initiative.
* Consistent demonstration of Central Health's corporate values; Innovation, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence (I CARE)
* Willing to work a flexible work schedule.
* A valid Newfoundland and Labrador Class IV Driver's License.
* 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:
* One (1) year experience within the last three (3) years as a nurse practitioner in long term care, personal care, acute care and/or community health.
* Demonstrated skill in using health care-based computer systems (CRMS, Meditech).

Hours of work: 75 hours bi-weekly (Shift work may be required)
Salary: NP-35 ($51.29-$63.65)
Competition No.: P- 2024001288-LTC
Closing date: October 4, 2024