Integrated Care Program Supervisor, Palliative

Spectrum Health Care • Mississauga, ON

8d • CA$70,000 - CA$85,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This is a unique opportunity to be part of a tight-knit, collaborative team from across the health sector where you’ll join a cultivate and high-performing team of Nurses, Personal Support Workers (PSWs), and Allied Health professionals, you’ll manage and foster a collective, innovative, and learning-focused environment. You’ll lead and support the implementation of integrated care programs focusing on optimizing service delivery through the use of data-driven insights. This role is integral in enhancing care quality, ensuring alignment with patient-, family and care partner-centred goals, and enabling team members to work to their full scope of practice - including both direct and indirect care coordination activities.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN)/ Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• Minimum of 5 years nursing experience in a community setting and 2+ years in a management role
• Must have experience working with palliative care patients
• Experience with program development, implementation and evaluation
• Successful completion of one or a combination of the following required: Canadian Nursing Association (CNA) certification in Palliative Care Nursing or enrollment in CNA certification program in Palliative Care Nursing; or Learning Essentials Approaches to Palliative and End of Life Care (LEAP); or Fundamentals of Palliative Care The Comprehensive Advanced Palliative Care Education (CAPCE)
• Experience managing teams in a unionized environment an asset
• Experience working with care coordination
• Valid G driver's license and reliable vehicle
• Must be available for on-call rotation after hours and weekends.

Responsibilities

• Lead an integrated palliative care team within a designated neighbourhood, managing day-to-day coordination of services ensuring continuity of care, seamless processes and optimal patient and employee experience
• Collaborate with your team to assess, plan, and coordinate with patients, caregivers, and other members of the care team to establish, review, and revise care plans that support patients to die in their preferred place of death -- respecting patient wishes for MAID as requested
• Oversee and monitor indirect care coordination activities provided by regulated and unregulated health professionals on your care team
• Support your team to provide high quality care including but not limited to pain and symptom management, advanced clinical skills, end-of-life care, interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural competence, emotional support and counselling, ethical and legal understanding, assessment and planning, education, assessment of caregiver stress/burden and advocacy
• Support patients and their caregivers, ensuring that their questions are answered and a seamless care approach is in place. Build a trusting relationship to understand the patient goals
• Effectively build and manage key internal and external stakeholder relationships
• Address quality, safety, and risk issues, developing improvement plans as needed and participate in Quality-of-care Reviews as required with partners.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed