Nurse Team Lead

Are you an experienced Nurse who believes in making a difference in your neighborhood by improving access to health care? Do you value illness prevention and wellness promotion? Would you excel working closely with a team of PSWs whom you will select, train, and mentor in order to deliver top-quality care in your neighborhood? Are you seeking work-life balance without the need to work evenings, nights, or weekends?

If we are piquing your interest, you may want to learn more about leading one of Bayshore’s local Neighborhood Health Teams. We offer you the chance to make a difference in your community and do meaningful work. Our Neighborhood Health Team creates special moments every day through direct Client Care and Caregiver Leadership.

If your priority is to provide hands-on nursing care the way you always wanted to, lead and mentor a small team, in a self-managed environment, and create new connections in the community while maintaining a focus on your own wellness through a flexible schedule, this may be the role for you!

Why Bayshore?

Bayshore strives to take good care of you while you make a difference for others:

1. Feel rewarded for doing what you love. We will empower you to do work you are passionate about with autonomy and support from experienced colleagues and mentors.
2. Competitive pay and comprehensive company-sponsored benefits for you and your family.
3. Work flexibility designed to empower you in a rewarding career.
4. Take control and use your expertise to create special moments for your clients and caregivers.
5. Commitment to helping you realize the future you desire through a wide variety of work options, continuous learning, and access to mentors and experts.
6. We take health & safety seriously. We provide personal protective equipment (PPE), relevant training in line with evolving health guidelines, and daily infection prevention screening of clients and workers to help prevent exposures to COVID-19 or other infectious diseases.

The Work You Will Do

As a Nurse Team Lead, you will be very hands-on in the community, providing direct client care, guiding a happy, healthy, well-balanced team of care providers, and building your client base all while making a difference in the communities we serve.

Assessment Delivery

Visit your Clients and Caregivers on a regular basis. This role is an active community position that requires regular home visits within the community. This role involves a high level of hands-on care, training, and coaching including weekly onsite visits with clients and caregivers in the community. This role also includes community outreach where you will build partnerships and promote this innovative approach to home care.

Leadership

• Supervise, support, and mentor caregivers.
• Audit and ensure regulatory compliance for provincial and in-house best practices.
• Visit clients and staff, providing hands-on care as well as training and mentorship.
• Combine an entrepreneurial spirit and hands-on leadership in the community through organized outreach.

Human Resources

• Coordinate human resources concerning recruitment and selection, orientation and training, discipline, and the probationary/annual performance review of reporting neighborhood health team members.
• Supervise and support licensed and unlicensed employees to ensure compliance with all federal and provincial legislated standards of practice as well as company policies and procedures.
• Responsible for the safety of your team and notify your immediate Supervisor of any Health & Safety risks or concerns.

Training & Development

• Coordinate and provide training and mentorship for caregivers.
• Engage in ongoing education and continuous learning for yourself.

Community Care

• Provide hands-on Clinical/Nursing care, sometimes as the on-call nurse.
• Build Client relationships.
• Support, train, and mentor Caregivers in the Field while working with Clients.
• This position may have an occasional after-hours support component.
• Experience with community outreach and relationship development, networking.

Who You Are

• You have a desire to help improve the lives of those in your community.
• You have a reliable vehicle and are willing to travel to visit clients within the community on a daily basis.
• A Graduate of an accredited Provincial Nursing Program with current registration in good standing and valid CPR certification.
• You have solid knowledge of the principles, practices, and methods of community nursing and service delivery to clients as well as program development, implementation, and evaluation.
• You have at least five (5) years of recent experience with progressive responsibilities, preferably in a community setting.
• Experience in business development is an asset.
• You have exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to handle difficult situations in an objective, consistent format; ability to work independently and effectively lead a team; above-average report writing and communication skills with both Field and Administrative employees.
• You are dedicated to providing high-quality service.

As Canada’s largest and best homecare company, join us as we continue our 50+ year tradition of supporting our Nurses to make “being the difference” a Career!

Bayshore is committed to a high quality and safe environment for both our staff and clients/patients. Dependent upon Provincial government regulations, and the position being applied for, new hires may be required to provide proof of vaccination against illnesses such as COVID-19, Hepatitis, Seasonal Flu etc. Please speak with the recruiter for Provincial and/or position-specific requirements. Medical exemptions or any other kinds of requested exemptions based upon Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

“At Bayshore Healthcare, our commitment to Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is our strength. This is how we bring our vision of being the difference in the lives of those we care for, work with, and in our communities. We have a great sense of pride in creating a culture of belonging, where individual differences are embraced and celebrated, through programs, resources, and policies that support each individual’s purpose, potential, and wellbeing.”

Bayshore operates in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, and applicable Provincial Human Rights Codes.

Primary Location

ON-Sault Ste. Marie