Clinical Practice Lead

**Job Description**:
Clinical Practice Lead - Clinical Nursing Care

**CARE AND BE CARED FOR - THIS IS YOUR HOME**:
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse,seeking a rewarding career that cares for others, in a professional practice that cares for you? You’re looking in the right place.

As an advocate for quality clinical care, the Clinical Practice Lead facilitates and supports continuous learning, professional development, and consistently excellent evidence-based care delivery through education, coaching, and mentorship of staff.

Whether you work in our office, in the community, or a health care facility - 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?**

**Patient Care Delivery**
- Provides leadership in the development, evaluation, and improvement of clinical practice as it relates to a specific clinical area of focus
- Provides relevant clinical practice consultation to front line staff and system partners
- Works closely with Home and Community Care Managers towards the advancement of clinical practice through program integration and standardization
- Works with Home and Community Care Leadership and Quality & Risk Department to identify clinical practice gaps/trends that, in collaboration with program managers and other relevant stakeholders, supports meaningful program and system improvements
- Participates in researching, integrating, and promoting evidence-based clinical care models to achieve organizational goals and objectives
- Supports implementation of best practice methodologies
- Builds and maintains relationships with internal and external partners, intentionally focusing on building capacity within the specific clinical practice focus area
- Participates as a leader in change management initiatives; acts as a champion for continuous improvement, and participates in the development of policies, procedures, processes, and tools to improve care delivery
- Provides education and day-to-day support in the development of staff clinical expertise
- Supports on-boarding and orientation of new staff in specific clinical area
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of new care delivery initiatives
- Identifies gaps in policies and procedures, as it relates to the clinical practice focus area, and brings it to the attention of the Manager/Director
- Supports complex and difficult patient clinical issues and complaints which cannot be handled in a routine manner
- Attends patient home visits and care conferences as required; supports frontline staff with the development of care plans that are complex as a result of the identified clinical issues
- Works with Operations Managers to develop and monitor outcome reports as they relate to specific clinical practice areas
- Runs and reviews reports as specified by the Manager and/or team
- Reduces avoidable hospital readmission and emergency department use by ensuring the plan of care is executed as designed
- Coaches and supports staff with planning for complex patients with an explicit intent to build knowledge and skills competencies

**Patient Assessment, Coordinated Care Planning & Engagement**
- Responds to inquiries and requests for care in accordance with the patient's needs; identifies risk factors and urgency for care
- Establishes goals in collaboration with the patient and family/caregiver; ensures goals reflect the patient's desired outcomes
- Works with system partners, including Service Providers, hospitals, Community Service Sector (CSS), Primary Care, and relevant others to ensure a seamless, coordinated, quality-driven patient and caregiver experience
- Develops a coordinated care plan that reflects the patient's assessed needs and goals within the resource parameters of the Home and Community Care Support Services Mississauga Halton
- Collaborates and negotiates transitions of care once the patient's goals and outcomes have been achieved; supports patient and family system navigation to alternate resources, if appropriate

**What must you have?**
- A registered health or social work professional including: registered nurse, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech language pathologist, or social worker
- A member in good standing with their applicable regulatory body below:

- College of Nurses of Ontario
- College of Physiotherapists of Ontario
- College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
- College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario
- Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
- A University degree preferred (or an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered)
- Three (3)