Clinical Specialist

Who We Are:
CarePartners is one of Ontario’s largest, most reputable and well-established accredited home health care providers, providing nursing, personal support, home support, palliative, therapy and rehabilitation support services for patients of all ages across urban and rural Ontario. We visit approximately 80,000 patients each year in homes, schools, clinics, workplaces and retirement homes, spread across 14 branches and 21 nursing clinics.

We continuously innovate to meet patient needs with specialized (award-winning) care programs and technology, including virtual care and AI.

Overview:
We offer a competitive compensation program, tuition assistance, on-site training and professional development and a comprehensive benefits package. Come see how community health care can fit your lifestyle and career goals

If you are looking for flexible scheduling, look no more. CarePartners can provide you with more time for a better work-life balance

We are looking for a Would Care Specialist to provide one on one care in the community/home setting as part of our interdisciplinary care team.

**This is a Part Time role and hours will be varied.**

**Travel is required within Niagara Falls, Beamsville, Grimsby, Smithville and Thorold.**

What We Offer:

- Competitive salary, comprehensive health and dental benefits
- Employment perks such as Employee Assistance Program, Perkopolis, Rewards Points
- Flexible scheduling supporting employee work life balance
- Inspiring leadership and opportunities for professional growth
- Supportive & dedicated Safety Health & Wellness team & Pandemic Response team
- Interprofessional collaboration with our Professional Practice Research & Education Team

What The Role Involves:
**Advances Standards of Care and Professional Practice in Wound Care**
- Champions a culture that is committed to and passionate about patient-centered, high-quality and integrated care and the identification of transformative opportunities in enabling point-of-care excellence in every patient and caregiver interaction
- Leads the design, implementation and evaluation of the clinical wound program at local branches that align with current standards, evidence-based practice, organizational needs and external customer requirements
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary patient care teams, operations and quality and professional practice leadership supporting the implementation of local, regional and provincial strategies that will advance excellence in clinical wound care outcomes from a population health lens.
- Implements evidenced based wound care using an integrated care delivery approach including understanding and elevating the roles of ALL health care professionals (i.e. Personal Support, Therapies and Nursing).
- Maintains clinical competency in wound management
- Utilizes instructional design concepts and approach to develop, deliver and coordinate wound care education
- Incorporates adult education principles into wound management education programs
- Develops and implements wound management coach and mentoring programs to ensure the delivery of best practices
- Provides wound management expertise to diverse populations
- Facilitates and champions innovative practices, approaches and programming in alignment with CarePartners research initiatives.
- Participates in the development, maintains and monitors quality wound care practice indicators to ensure ongoing practice fidelity
- Supports CarePartners’ strategic priorities relevant to professional practice and ensures leadership is informed of emerging trends in technology, health care, and adult education pertaining to wound care

**Practice Analyst and Advice**
- Provide high-quality clinical wound care consult and professional practice to internal and external stakeholders such as the local and provincial Patient Care and Operations and Professional Practice leadership, hospitals, Ontario Health Teams and Home and Community Care Support Services.
- Collaborates with the local CarePartners branches to identify issues and trends regarding practice gaps and develops proposal, in collaboration with leadership, to mitigate activities and ensure alignment with high-quality patient-centred practice and programming expectations
- Provide strategic advice on wound care practice and programming issues and themes

**Build Capability and Education**
- Provide consultancy service and support to leadership and frontline staff for the promotion of practice and programming excellence, in line with CarePartners internal and regulatory standards
- Supports the consistency of clinical wound care practices across the branches
- Works closely with Patient Care and Operations leadership and collaborates on clinical orientation/role developments and development of wound care clinical competencies
- Acts as a wound care resource to facilitate the full scope of practice for team members
- Provides input into the performance appraisal and joint evaluation for C