Clinical Practice Coordinator

**Do you have a passion for making a difference?**

Making every moment matter is about improving all the things that make life enjoyable. Things like making someone feel better, making connections with them or for them with other residents, showing them a new song or even just giving them something to look forward to.

At Wellington Park Care Centre, we are passionate about providing compassionate care for families' loved ones, where the residents of our home come before anything else. Our values follow a ‘People’ focused philosophy, **P*articipation ~ **E**xcellence ~ **O**penness ~ **P**erformance ~ **L**ongevity ~ **E*fficient Use of Resources. This philosophy can be seen in every aspect and level of our home.

Since Wellington Park Care Centre opened, we have offered a community within a community that people were happy to call ‘home’. We pride ourselves in this community connection, our philosophies and the feeling of comfort that can be felt as soon as the door opens.

**Responsibilities of the Clinical Practice Coordinator at Wellington Park Care Centre**

The Clinical Practice Coordinator provides leadership and expertise to effectively support and advance evidence-based best practice within a long-term care environment; facilitating the creation of a collaborative practice environment through leadership, role modelling and coordination of practice activities; identifying the learning needs of nursing staff related to nursing practice issues and collaborating to design overall learning strategies and interventions; advising on and providing leadership to initiatives related to nursing practice, including inter-professional collaboration and communication, education and research quality improvement, professional standards and regulatory requirement; and encouraging the professional development of nursing staff members to maintain and enhance their professional growth.

Essential Duties are the technical skills and knowledge that an employee requires in order to perform their role. Below is detailed information on required Essential Duties for your position.
- Interprets nursing philosophy, and in collaboration with the Director of Care and nursing team establishes and implements goals and objectives
- Implements, evaluates and supports new care programs and services based on best practices
- Oversees Medication reconciliation process and fosters safe medication practices
- Assists and takes part in the recruitment, retention and performance management of nursing employees
- Tracks and analyzes medication incidents on the MIRS portal
- Support staff (hands on) with the admission and readmission process
- Assists with the development of policies and procedures consistent with resident evidenced based care practices, CNO, RNAO MOHLTC, and other applicable legislation
- Provides direction and hands on support to Registered staff in each program area (i.e.:

- Skin Care and Wound Management, Falls Prevention, Continence Management, Infection Control & Prevention, End of Life)
- Stays current with any new evidence best practices and research in Long Term Care and disseminates this information to management and staff
- Assists with the evaluation of all resident program and services for relevance, quality, and effectiveness
- Provides mentoring and coaching in regards to the clinical required programs (skin, falls, pain etc)
- Provides mentoring and coaching in regards compliance with facility policies and procedures, required legislation and prevailing best practices)
- Acts as a preceptor to nursing students and fosters their learning goals and needs
- Acts as a key member of the on-boarding process of registered staff
- Supports nursing students and new hires to ensure they feel welcome and safe in their practice
- Other duties as assigned and or indicated in Job Task Inventory

**Qualifications**

At Wellington Park Care Centre we take pride in our employees, so your qualifications are important to us. We use them to get to know you and see if we are a good fit for each other. The qualifications needed to join our family at Wellington Park Care Centre are as follows:

- Current RN certificate of competency from the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Comprehensive knowledge of evidence-based clinical practices and clinical skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of long term care concepts and philosophies
- Knowledge of and understanding of program planning, evaluation, principles of adult learning, and organizational and clinical issues
- Proficiency in the Point Click Care Application
- Knowledge and demonstrated ability to incorporate core competencies including communication, innovation
- Teamwork and collaboration, and personal ownership
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Minimum of three (3) year managerial experience in long term care setting an asset
- Gerontology certificate program or equivalent is an asset
- Knowledge of RAI-MDS
- AIS certified
- Policy and Program Development