Care Coordinator (Access Centre)

Are you an experienced registered nurse (BScN), physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech language pathologist, or certified social worker (MSW) looking for a different kind of practice environment? You’re looking in the right place.

As a valued member of our Home and Community Care team, you will facilitate the journey through Ontario’s health care system by assessing referred patients, determining their health care needs and eligibility, and ensuring they receive the services and care they need, where and when they need them.

Whether you are working in our office, in a local hospital or in the community, you will have the opportunity to impact lives in your community, enjoy a balanced lifestyle, and be part of a great team that makes care happen.

What will you do?

• Coordinate and monitor care plan delivery
• In collaboration with patients and their families, assess care needs, determine eligibility for services, and develop individual care and service plans
• Establish a helping relationship with patients and their families
• Link patients with service providers
• Balance patient needs and choices with available resources, ensuring patients’ values and preferences are respected

What must you have?

• Link patients with service providers
• College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario
• A valid driver’s licence and access to a reliable vehicle
• In collaboration with patients and their families, assess care needs, determine eligibility for services, and develop individual care and service plans
• Establish a helping relationship with patients and their families
• College of Physiotherapists of Ontario
• College of Nurses of Ontario
• 2+ years of recent experience in community health or a related field
• Ability to use a computer in a Windows environment
• Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
• Knowledge of the health care delivery system and community resources
• Membership, in good standing, with the applicable regulatory body
• Ability to speak French or another second language
• Effective time management skills, with the ability to work independently and co-operatively in a busy multidisciplinary environment
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, assessment and decision-making skills
• Balance patient needs and choices with available resources, ensuring patients’ values and preferences are respected
• Coordinate and monitor care plan delivery
• College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
• Experience working with diverse patient groups, e.g., multicultural, homeless, palliative, acquired brain injury (ABI), mental health, geriatrics, pediatrics

• Membership, in good standing, with the applicable regulatory body
• College of Nurses of Ontario
• 2+ years of recent experience in community health or a related field
• College of Physiotherapists of Ontario
• Effective time management skills, with the ability to work independently and co-operatively in a busy multidisciplinary environment
• Experience working with diverse patient groups, e.g., multicultural, homeless, palliative, acquired brain injury (ABI), mental health, geriatrics, pediatrics
• A valid driver’s licence and access to a reliable vehicle
• College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
• Ability to use a computer in a Windows environment
• Ability to speak French or another second language
• College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, assessment and decision-making skills
• Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
• Knowledge of the health care delivery system and community resources