Patient Care Coordinator (Northern Health)

Position Summary

Are you someone who has a real passion for helping others? Are you a Registered Nurse looking to highlight your knowledge, skills, and abilities in a new and dynamic environment? We currently have an exciting opportunity for you to bring your excellent work ethic to our Patient Support Unit at Mills Memorial Hospital.

The Patient Care Coordinator facilitates the admission, discharge, and patient transfer processes, and is responsible for coordinating patient/resident care when necessary. The role promotes the efficient allocation and utilization of beds to determine patient placement and support patients receiving quality care. The Patient Care Coordinator assists the Program Managers in establishing and maintaining standards of patient care and is responsible for coordinating the operations of the hospital in the absence of managers, department heads and senior administrative personnel.

Shift Rotation/Hours of work: Days, Evenings, 07:00 to 15:00, 15:00 to 23:00 (Rotating)

Mills Memorial Hospital is a 52 acute care bed hospital and provides the only inpatient psychiatric unit in the northwest. They offer emergency services, and has a diagnostic and specialist center which includes CT scan and nuclear medicine. Visiting specialists come for obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry, general surgery, urology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, anaesthetics, radiology, nuclear medicine, pathology, otorhinolaryngology (ENT), podiatry, pediatrics and internal medicine. Community cancer and chronic disease management clinics are available.

Terrace has a population 12,700 (2021) residents. The community of Terrace is northern living at its best. Snow-capped mountains, pristine glacier-fed rivers, lakes and streams all add to the beauty of this community. Check out Terrace where there is always something new to experience.

What Northern Health has to offer you!

• Financial Support for Moving Expenses is available for eligible positions
• "Loan Forgiveness Programs" are offered through the Federal and BC Government for eligible professions.
• Employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
• Spectacular outdoor activities and the shortest commutes in BC
• Employee referral program
• Four weeks vacation with one year of continuous service
• Comprehensive benefit packages including, extended health/dental and a municipal pension plan for part-time and full-time employees. Casuals have the option of paying for benefits.

Qualfications

• Registration with BC College of Nurses and Midwives as a practicing RN registrant.
• Five years recent acute care experience with one years' supervisory experience or the equivalent combination of training and experience.

Skills And Abilities

• Demonstrates clinical competence in medical/surgical nursing.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to operate related equipment including computer software applications.
• Ability to maintain good public relations with patients, family and friends.
• Ability to function independently with required organizational skills and balance multiple activities.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to establish, maintain and promote effective working relationships.
• Ability to provide and promote safe and competent patient care.
• Physical and mental ability to perform duties of position.
• Ability to recognize and intervene in an emergency situation.
• Ability to function effectively in stressful situations

Who We Are

Northern Health covers an area of nearly 600,000 square kilometers and offers health services in over two dozen communities and 55 First Nation's communities. We deliver hospital and community-based health care for a population of 300,000.

Employing more than 7,000 staff throughout the region, Northern Health provides exceptional health services for Northerners, through the efforts of dedicated staff and physicians, in partnership with communities and organizations in Northern BC.

There is a wide variety of career opportunities available in our two dozen hospitals, 25 long-term care facilities, public health units and many other offices providing specialized services.

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