Care Coordinator

**Job Description**:
**CARE AND BE CARED FOR - THIS IS YOUR HOME**:
**Are you an experienced registered nurse, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, social worker (MSW), dietitian, or speech language pathologist seeking a rewarding career that cares for others, in a professional practice that cares for you? You’re looking in the right place.**:
**One (1) full-time Care Coordinator position** is currently available with the Mid-East Community Integration team of Ontario Health atHome for the area of Toronto Central to manage an assigned caseload of clients who identify as First Nation, Inuit, or Metis (FNIM).

As a **Care Coordinator**, you will assess and determine patient care needs and eligibility, provide access and referrals to community services, and engage with patients, caregivers and other health care practitioners. In addition, the position involves establishing and maintaining effective relations with Indigenous led serving agencies and community contacts to ensure quality and culturally safe client care.

You will play a lead role in providing connected, accessible, patient-centred care - and be supported by our collaborative team that includes over 9,000 regulated health care and other professionals.

As a valued team member, your mission will be to help our patients be healthier at home, while you benefit from our supports for professional growth, personal wellness and work-life balance.

**What will you do?**
- In collaboration with patients and their families, assess care needs, determine eligibility for services, and develop individual care and service plans
- Link patients with service providers
- Coordinate and monitor care plan delivery
- Establish a helping relationship with patients and their families
- Balance patient needs and choices with available resources, ensuring patients’ values and preferences are respected

**What must you have?**
- Membership, in good standing, with the applicable regulatory body:

- College of Nurses of Ontario
- College of Physiotherapists of Ontario
- College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
- Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
- College of Dietitians of Ontario
- College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario
- 1+ years of recent experience in community health or a related field
- Knowledge of the health care delivery system and community resources
- Strong knowledge of Indigenous Culture, tradition, beliefs, practices, and Indigenous support services
- Experience with supporting the specific needs and challenges of the indigenous community and of systemic racism and historical trauma
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, assessment, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Effective time management, prioritization and organizational skills, with the ability to work independently and co-operatively in a busy multidisciplinary environment
- Established ability to accurately complete required documentation, reports and forms
- A valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle
- Proficient in a Windows environment
- We have a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees are required to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination status prior to start date.

**What would give you the edge?**
- Experience working with diverse patient groups, e.g., multicultural, homeless, palliative, acquired brain injury (ABI), mental health, geriatrics, pediatrics
- Case management experience or recent related community experience
- Ability to speak French or another second language

**What do we offer?**

**We know wellness is supported with work-life balance.** In an inclusive culture committed to support your passion for continuous learning, growth and innovation, we offer:

- Attractive comprehensive compensation packages and benefits
- Valuable development opportunities
- Membership in a world class defined benefit pension plan
- Salary: $79,853.82 to $93,232.59

**Who we are**

**We are Ontario Health atHome, ready to serve every person in Ontario.** We partner with patients and caregivers, primary care providers, hospitals, long-term care and retirement homes, service providers and Ontario Health Teams, to deliver responsive, accessible, integrated, patient-centred care.

**If you’re interested in driving excellence in care and service delivery**, and seeking an unparalleled opportunity to lead and learn, partner and connect, care and be cared for, this is your home.

**Equity, Inclusion, Diversity and Anti-Racism Commitment