Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) provides trauma-informed and highly specialized services for children and youth of Ontario who experience complex and long-standing combinations of mental health difficulties and/or developmental challenges where these difficulties significantly impact functioning in multiple areas such as home, school and community and appropriate community interventions have not produced the desired response. CPRI provides services that are based on a partnership model with community service providers. Our services include Assessment, Consultation, Treatment, Research and Education in both outpatient and inpatient services.
If you are a registered as a nurse in Ontario, and are seeking a meaningful position to plan, develop, provide, monitor and evaluate, trauma-informed community based services for infants and young children with complex developmental, medical, and mental health challenges, this Parent Infant Therapist position may be the opportunity you've been looking for!
About the job
Under the administrative supervision of the HVPI (Home Visiting Program for Infants) Manager and within a transdisciplinary team, you will:
• Work within a transprofessional model of service delivery, provide direct home visiting services to developmentally delayed and high-risk infants and their families.
• Participate in assessment in order to identify needs and establish goals and priorities for intervention.
• Implement programs to meet these needs and maintains ongoing reevaluation and reporting requirements in both the clinical and program areas.
• Contribute to the overall case management plan by facilitating communication and coordination with other members of the HVPI transprofessional team, the CPRI team, and other agencies and professionals.
• Provide perspective and expertise specific to the Public Health Nursing discipline.
• As a member of a transprofessional team – maintain the special knowledge and skills to provide effective and supportive services to infants and their families, and to consult and act as a resource person to HVPI staff regarding public health nursing issues.
• Contribute to professional education provided by the program to its own staff, to the facility and to the community.
• Participate in educational experiences provided to students in professional programs.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the field of Early Intervention and related specialty areas through attendance at conferences, seminars and through literature readings.
• Contribute to overall program evaluation and research activities
• Other duties as required/as assigned
What you bring to the team
Mandatory requirements
Registration as a Nurse in Ontario and knowledge of community/public health nursing practices, normally obtained through a certificate in public health nursing or a degree in nursing from a university of recognized standing.
Technical Skill and Knowledge of Public Health Nursing Principles:
You have:
• The ability to provide Public Health Nursing services in the form of screening, assessment, program planning, treatment, and follow-up to clients of CPRI
• The ability to review and clarify information from external sources to complete comprehensive clinical assessment to aid individualized intervention goals in co-ordination with all stakeholders
• The ability to implement programs to meet client needs and maintain ongoing re-evaluation and reporting requirements in both the clinical and program areas.
Case Management and Client Assessment Knowledge:
You have:
• The knowledge to determine required intervention that considers factors related to the client, including gross motor skills, fine motor skills, motor planning, sensory integration, life skills, feeding, positioning, and child development.
• The ability to communicate knowledge of effective and supportive services to infants and their families, and to consult and act as a resource person to HVPI staff regarding public health nursing issues.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a transdisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary team.
Interpersonal and Communication Skills:
You have:
• The ability to prepare Nursing assessment findings and Nursing/Parent Infant Therapy recommendations.
• The ability to help establish appropriate collaborative, therapeutic goals for clients of CPRI.
• The ability to contributes to the overall case management plan by facilitating communication and coordination with all stakeholders.
• The ability to provide written recommendations and clinical support to caregivers and service providers where appropriate.
• The ability to teach clinical skills to professionals and/or community stakeholders.
Don't meet every qualification?
If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!
How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility
We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.
Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's
Human Rights Code and the
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer
accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please
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