Job Details: Nurse Practitioner - Family

Company: Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) – Province-wide solutions. Better health.

Description: Nurse Practitioner - Family

BC Children's Hospital (BCCH) cares for the province's most acutely ill or injured children and youth, provides developmental and rehabilitation services to children and youth throughout BC, and offers a broad range of health services. Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children (SHHC), a leading provincial facility offering specialized services to children and youth with developmental disabilities from birth to age 19, works collaboratively with BCCH. SHHC focuses on the child and their family while supporting health care professionals in their community. BCCH also operates a wide number of specialized health programs, is a leading acute care teaching facility, and conducts research to advance health and care through the Child and Family Research Institute and in partnership with the University of British Columbia.

BCCH is an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) which plans, manages and evaluates specialty and province-wide health care services across BC. PHSA embodies values that reflect a commitment to excellence. These include: Patients first • Best value • Results matter • Improvements through knowledge • Open to possibilities.

Nurse Practitioner (Family)
Social Pediatrics Initiative - BC Children's Hospital
Regular Full-time - Vancouver, British Columbia

Nurse Practitioners Reaching Out In The Community.

The Social Pediatrics initiative is a new, evolving program that looks to provide barrier-free primary health care for vulnerable families with a focus on continuity of care including coordination and linking of needed services. As a Family Nurse Practitioner, this role will see you working alongside another Nurse Practitioner to have an immediate and positive impact on inner-city children/youth/women and their families as you provide comprehensive, integrated primary health care that emphasizes health promotion and disease prevention, as well as management of common health problems. In addition, you will provide important linkage of needed services within this socially complex population as you collaborate with other health professionals and Agencies to identify and assess trends and patterns that have implications for clients, families and communities. You bring NP (Family) full scope of practice which includes taking patient histories, performing assessments, ordering/interpreting tests, and performing diagnostic and therapeutic measures that allow the delivery of therapeutic care from the nurse practitioner perspective. Significantly, your ability to build professional relationships with community health agencies and other service providers while maintaining strong linkages and relationships with provincial and tertiary services at BCCH, SHHC, and BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre will ensure continuity of care, coordination and appropriateness of services.

Along with educational preparation at the university level, you hold significant pediatric/youth/women-centered clinical nursing experience gained with similar populations. Experience in mental health would also be an asset. Analytical and highly organized, you can integrate a wide range of practice models and have advanced planning skills along with current registration as a Nurse Practitioner (Family) with the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia. What sets you apart is sensitivity, compassion and understanding of the impact of social determinants of health on family sustainability and positive health outcomes that demand your skill in improving access to services for this vulnerable population. Your knowledge of developmental stages, behavioral sciences, pathophysiology, psychopathology, epidemiology, and pharmacology is coupled with excellent assessment and evaluation skills that lead to sound planning and evidence-based results.

We invite you to apply online for this position! For more information on all that the PHSA has to offer, please visit our website.

For more information about this role please email lhand@phsa.ca

Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled.

For more information about the Agency that you are interested in, please visit the website at: www.bcchildrens.ca

The PHSA is committed to employment equity and hires on the basis of merit. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, including women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

Posting Date: May 16 08