Location:Surrey-North Delta, British Columbia (In-person)
Designation(s): Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Job summary
Surrey-Foundry is an integrated youth services (IYS) initiative for youth ages 12-24 and their families. Centrally located near public transit, universities and schools, Surrey-Foundry will be the largest Foundry opened to date. Surrey-Foundry aims to remove barriers and improve care pathways for youth by supporting co-location and integration of existing resources and services for five core streams: physical and sexual health, mental health, substance use, peer support and social services. With over 30 community partnerships and programs integrating into Surrey-Foundry, the Nurse Practitioner will work alongside an interdisciplinary team of service providers to meet the primary care needs of young people through a holistic, youth-centric and trauma-informed lens.
Two Permanent Full-Time, a minimum of 1680 hours of Services per FTE per year
Key responsibilities
As a PCN Nurse Practitioner, your role and responsibilities would include the following:
• Provide comprehensive, accessible, interdisciplinary, patient-focused primary health care utilizing the principles of population health for prevention, identification and management of chronic illness, including addictions and mental health, and will provide the following Services (including but not limited to Direct and Indirect Patient Care) in accordance with the Practice Agreement and within their scope of practice, as established by the Health Professions Act (or any successor legislation) and the BC College of Nurses and Midwives during the Term.
• Provide a minimum of 1680 hours of Services per year (per 1.0 FTE)
• Actively participate in developing and implementing the PCN within their community.
• Actively collaborate with the Province, Agency and other health system partners on developing and implementing the Patient Medical Homes (PMH), including using the PMH Readiness Assessment Tool to develop a baseline understanding of and support meeting the PMH's attributes.
• Apply the principles of collaborative care and receive practice support or participate in team building and training to support the integration of interdisciplinary members into the team. Improve patient access to primary care services, including meeting the target panel sizes set out in the NP contract (gradually attaching patients over three years, achieving the attachment target of 700 patients (for a full-time position) by the end of year three).
• Employ practice and panel assessments, office efficiency practices, and other methods to support enhanced access.
• Engage in continuous quality improvement.
Qualifications
Are you motivated to join us? We will be looking for you to have the following:
• Current provisional/practicing registration as a Nurse Practitioner with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)
• Relevant clinical NP experience
• Professional/Technical capabilities will include your clinical knowledge and genuine passion for providing quality, compassionate care to motivate and inspire others.
We welcome Nurse Practitioners as valued members of our PCN and Surrey-Foundry and value the skills and experience you will bring to our team and community. Our Nurse Practitioners have the opportunity to practice autonomously, interdependently and collaboratively with Family Physicians and other health professionals to support the development and implementation of the proposed PCN in SND.
This is a Permanent Full-Time or Part-Time position as an independent PCN NP on a Service Contract based on Surrey-Foundry.
Compensation & benefits
1.0 FTE - $169,867 – $181,192 annually with no overhead.
How to apply
Position open until filled.
Please email Megan Shymanski: megan.shymanski@snddivision.ca