Clinician - Skin/wound & Ostomy

**Job Description**:
**Position**:Clinician - Skin/Wound & Ostomy

**Department**: Professional Practice***

**Posting ID**:2023-33639

**Role Level**: Nursing - Non-Union (NN11) - $49.27 to $58.89

**Status**:Temporary Full Time (18 months)

**Site**:Credit Valley Hospital

**Shifts**:Primarily Monday to Friday

**Posted**:June 29, 2023

**Internal** Deadline: July 6, 2023

Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Center at Humber. Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Our Mission**:A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community**

Our Values**:Compassion, Excellence, Courage**

Our Goals**:Quality, Access, Sustainability**

Our Enablers**:People, Education, Innovation, Research**
- Provides leadership in the distribution of clinical support among all sites
- Provides clinical support to staff, implements and evaluates strategies to increase learning and ongoing development of the clinical and professional practice of staff at all sites
- Provides clinical support of complex wounds and ostomy care
- Works with the interprofessional team to facilitate competency of staff providing ostomy and wound care through ongoing learning opportunities
- Provides a quality improvement lens to improve practices across sites
- Acts as a resource person for staff regarding assessment of in-patient needs and evaluation of patient care management issues as they relate to skin, wound and ostomy care
- Identifies learning needs of patients and their families and, in collaboration with the interprofessional team members, plans, implements and evaluates instructional programs for patients and their caregivers; and provides individualized care plans as needed for patient/caregivers
- Organizes and participates in mini and hospital-wide prevalence & incidence audits
- Supports commitment to THP’s Best Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) designation through Best Practice Guideline (BPG) sustainment and evaluation across the organization
- In collaboration with the surgeons, provides pre-operative and post-operative counselling to patients and families requiring ostomy surgery

**Key Qualifications**:

- Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing required
- Master’s Degree in a Health Sciences Profession preferred
- Regulated Health Professional registered and in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario required
- Graduate of a recognized Enterostomal Therapy/NSWOCC Program or enrolled or plan on enrolling and completing the course within 18 months
- Demonstrated excellence and clinical experience in wound, skin and ostomy care and management
- Minimum of 3 years of demonstrated effective education program development, research utilization, adult education and professional development
- Effective interpersonal communication skills and ability to establish positive relationships with all staff, clients, families, and community partners
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency in the provision of clinical consultation to patients and/or family members for complex skin/wound and ostomy care concerns
- Demonstrated leadership skills in creating capacity among staff nurses and other inter-professional team members for providing excellence in wound/skin and ostomy care as well as evaluation of care- In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation._
- All personal information is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act._
- Trillium Health Partners is identified under the French Language Services Act._

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