Registered Nurse, Palliative Care

Palliative Care at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital offers nurses a unique opportunity to combine advanced clinical expertise with deeply meaningful human connection. As a Registered Nurse on this unit, you will focus on optimizing comfort, function, and social support for patients and their families when a cure is no longer possible. Care plans are built collaboratively around each patient’s values, balancing symptom management with opportunities for connection and comfort. The sustained therapeutic relationships our nurses develop with patients provide valuable insights to understanding each patient’s priorities. Working in this area is profoundly rewarding, allowing you to directly shape how patients experience comfort, connection, and dignity in their final days.

Is this you?
You are an empathetic and compassionate nurse committed to preserving the dignity of patients in their final stages of life. Families often look for reassurance, clarity, and grounded communication as situations evolve. You excel at addressing the emotional and psychosocial needs of patients and families, providing crucial support during sensitive times. Independent, yet a team player, you thrive in a collaborative environment where achieving collective goals is as important as offering personalized care.
           
A palliative care setting offers meaningful opportunities to apply comprehensive assessment skills in support of patients with evolving needs. Within this environment, noticing and interpreting non-verbal cues becomes an important way to understand discomfort, uncertainty, or changes that patients may find difficult to articulate. Curiosity naturally drives continued learning, helping you remain current with techniques and practices that enhance patient experience. A growing familiarity with new approaches enables creative thinking that helps tailor care to the unique circumstances of each patient.

This role is unique in its focus on offering emotional support and guidance to patients and families during times of loss and grief. You will play a vital role in respecting and supporting patient wishes through alternative forms of treatment, including Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) and palliative sedation. Your expertise will be instrumental in providing high-quality, patient-centered care, making a significant impact on the lives of those you serve.

About this team
The Palliative Care team at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital provides specialized support for individuals whose care needs shift toward comfort, function, and quality of life. Featuring 24 private rooms, we provide specialized care for patients during the advanced stages of terminal illness or chronic disease. The care we provide is guided through collaborative goal-setting, ensuring patients are active participants in shaping the support they receive. Our teams approach emphasizes meaningful therapeutic relationships, creating space for moments of connection and comfort for both patients and families. We are committed to delivering compassionate support, addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of our patients and their families.

In this role you will:

• Support collaborative goal-setting by engaging patients in identifying their priorities for comfort, function, and day-to-day care
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and incorporate this into the unit workflow
• Provide comprehensive, quality patient/family centred health care services
• Provide nursing care in collaboration with the patient, significant others and interprofessional team
• Be responsible for all new admissions and the admission assessment
• Provide leadership and contributes to an environment that fosters interprofessional collaborative practice and quality/safe patient care practices
• Establish patient care plans based on bio-psychosocial and spiritual needs assessment and integrating other health professionals’ recommendations
• Involve patients and their families in developing the plan of care and in facilitating choice among care options so that care is individualized according to each patient’s needs
• Support, mentor and teach learners
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification, as required

• Current Certificate of Registration in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN). Applicants in their final year or near completion will be considered
• Recent completion of a physical assessment course

• Superior assessment and clinical skills
• Demonstrated ability in providing patient-focused care
• Proven ability to make decisions and manage workload in a fast-paced work environment
• Familiarity with:
  • Regulated Health Professions Act
  • Occupational Health and Safety Act, WHMIS
• Must have physical strength, flexibility and endurance required to perform the role, as determined by the needs of the position and based on assessment conducted by Occupational Health Services

Vacancy Type: New/Replacement Vacancy 

Employment at Sinai Health is conditional upon the verification of credentials, completion of a health review, and demonstrating proof of immunity and vaccination status of vaccine-preventable diseases. All employees and affiliates will follow safe work practices and comply with health and safety policies, procedures and training. If you believe you are one of the very few people who may require an exemption from vaccination, supporting medical information must be submitted to our Occupational Health department, who will review and assess.

Sinai Health is comprised of Mount Sinai Hospital, Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and our system partner Circle of Care. We deliver excellent care in hospital, community and home, focusing on the comprehensive needs of people. Sinai Health discovers and translates scientific breakthroughs, pushes boundaries for health solutions and educates future clinical and scientific leaders. Clinical areas of specialization include rehabilitation and complex continuing care, surgery and oncology, urgent and critical care, and women’s and infants’ health. The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute ranks among the top ten biomedical research institutes in the world. Sinai Health is a full affiliate of the University of Toronto.

As an equal opportunity employer who understands that diversity enriches our community and culture, we invite applications from all qualified candidates including Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, disabled people/people with disabilities, women, and members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. If you require accommodation(s) due to disability at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact 416-586-4800 ext. 7050, or email TalentAcquisitionAccommodation.msh@sinaihealth.ca.