Job Description

VON nurses collaborate in clinics, homes, and community settings, working with community health teams to provide client-centered health care. We have full time and part time opportunities available.

Are you looking for a challenging, rewarding career in nursing? Join the VON team and make a difference in the lives of our clients in your community by delivering exceptional care. Come work with us – it’s a job that matters!

If you asked a VON nurse why they love working here, they would say:

• I get to work to the full scope of my practice
• I use independent judgment to make decisions for my clients
• I get to provide home care to clients who need it
• I love being out and around in my community helping people
• Clients really appreciate the service and care that we provide them
• I am able to ensure my client is comfortable while providing palliative care in their home
• I get to work with amazing co-workers

Our Visiting nurses provide client care in the client’s own home and clinic. They provide physical assessments, symptom control support, palliative care, rehabilitation therapy, wound care, education, counselling to individuals and families and much more.

Job Summary:

Registered Nurses will provide professional nursing consultation services on a wide variety of nursing issues related to the care of older adult clients. You will promote programs to meet community needs, and provide exceptional nursing care to clients and caregivers in the community by applying VON Branch philosophy, policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Provide and manage high quality and appropriate nursing care to all individuals and/or families in the community who are assigned to their care
• Responsible to teach and delegate tasks and functions to different levels of workers and to family members and others in accordance with the standards and scope of practice as determined by VON and the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Comply with all standards, policies, procedures and legislative requirements
• Participate as a member of the health care team in relevant committees and working groups

Are you a new graduate, retired nurse or nurse looking to enter back into the nursing field? You may qualify for the Community Commitment Program for Nurses (CCPN) through Health Force Ontario. This program provides a $25,000 incentive to eligible nurses in exchange for a 24-month commitment to an eligible employer. To view eligibility requirements, click here:  www.healthforceontario.ca/ccpn