Hospital Care Coordinator - Permanent Job Share (Owen Sound)

Home and Community Care Support Services South West is seeking a Hospital Care Coordinator in Owen Sound!

What is a Care Coordinator?

Care Coordinators are clinicians who utilize knowledge, skills, and judgement from diverse bodies of research to provide patients with safe, compassionate, and evidence-informed care. They are expert assessors of the multiple components of individual patient health, and knowledgeable health system navigators. Care Coordinators are advocates and leaders, and they balance needs and expectations with available resources to ensure fiscal responsibility.

More broadly, the Care Coordinator facilitates 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.

If you are an experienced Registered Nurse; Physiotherapist; Occupational Therapist; Speech Language Pathologist; Dietitian; or Registered Social Worker looking for a different kind of practice environment, you’re looking in the right place!

This is a Permanent Job Share opportunity located in Owen Sound Hospital.

What will you do as a Hospital Care Coordinator?

Working in a local hospital (or multiple hospital sites in a defined region), 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.

Hospital Care Coordinators develop safe, sustainable discharge plans for patients by managing complex comorbidities and social situations across diverse settings to avoid hospital readmission, promote quality of life, and minimize risks during transitions in care.

More specifically, Hospital Care Coordinators

• Balance patient needs and choices with available resources, ensuring patients’ values and preferences are respected.
• Use their clinical knowledge of hospital interventions and disease trajectories to identify patients at risk for complex discharge, perform assessments, and anticipate patient needs to mitigate risks.
• Establish a helping, therapeutic relationship with patients and their families.
• Take the initiative to lead the health care team with respect to discharge planning, organize discharge planning meetings, and advocate for patient wishes/best practice.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with system partners (i.e., hospital staff/leadership/physicians).

What must you have?

• Membership, in good standing, with the applicable regulatory body in Ontario
• Good time management skills, with the ability to work independently and co-operatively in a busy and fast-paced multidisciplinary environment.
• Knowledge of medical interventions initiated in hospital and disease trajectories, and the ability to create care plans according to best practice and patient preference/needs.
• Strong assessment and decision-making skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to resolve conflicts and disagreements effectively.
• Knowledge of the health care delivery system and community resources.
• A valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle.
• Good initiative and the ability to be self-directed.
• Ability to use a computer in a Windows-based environment.
• 2+ years of recent experience in community health or a related field.

What would give you an advantage?

• Ability to speak French or another second language.
• Previous discharge planning experience in an acute care setting.
• Experience working with diverse patient groups (i.e., multicultural, unhoused, palliative, acquired brain injury (ABI), mental health, geriatrics, pediatrics).

Who we are

Home and Community Care Support Services South West is one of 14 Home and Community Care Support Services organizations in Ontario with a focused mandate to deliver local health care services such as home and community care and long-term care home placement. These organizations were previously known as Local Health Integration Networks at a time when they also led local health care planning and funding, and those functions are now part of Ontario Health. Learn more at www.healthcareathome.ca/southwest.

Our organization is a recipient of the 2019 Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month Great Employers Award, making it a recognized organization in supporting employee health and safety.

How do I apply?

Please visit www.HealthCareAtHomeJobs.ca to submit your resume and cover letter. Application deadline is 20 July 2023 at 2359 hours.

Please ensure your cover letter clearly identifies the following

• Types of employment you would consider (i.e., part time, full time, or casual [you are scheduled for work based on your provided availability]).
• Locations at which you are willing and able to work (i.e., Woodstock, St Thomas, London, Stratford, Seaforth, Hanover, Owen Sound).

We are committed to a culture that values diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities, and are committed to providing accommodation as part of our hiring process. If you have special requirements, please advise Human Resources during the recruitment process.

Home and Community Care Support Services values the health and safety of its employees and is committed to the prevention of COVID-19 exposure and transmission of infection to employees, patients, caregivers, volunteers, visitors and residents. As a requirement of Home and Community Care Support Services’ Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, all employees must be considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

Check out the video in the link below for more about working at Home and Community Care Support Services

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