Company: Bayshore HealthCare
Location: Mississauga, ON
Expected salary:
Job date: Thu, 02 Oct 2025 00:30:11 GMT
Job description: Are you a visionary nurse leader committed to advancing professional practice and driving excellence in team-based care? If so, we invite you to consider an exciting opportunity to join Bayshore HealthCare’s national clinical team as a Clinical Practice Leader (CPL).In this influential, remote role, you will provide expert consultation, education, and clinical leadership to thousands of clinical managers, regulated professionals, and paraprofessionals across Canada. You will lead designated national clinical programs—most notably in palliative care across all disease states—and ensure that clinical policies, procedures, and educational initiatives are evidence-based, aligned with professional standards, and compliant with provincial and federal legislationThrough collaboration, innovation, and a commitment to excellence, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing clinical quality and advancing care delivery across the organization.Why Bayshore?
Bayshore HealthCare is proud to have been a Best Practice Spotlight Organization since 2015 and a Platinum Member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies every year since 2006. We deliver specialized nursing and home care services in a wide range of settings.
About You:
You are a Registered Nurse with advanced education at the baccalaureate or master’s level, and you thrive in a remote work environment. You have advanced knowledge, certification, and experience in palliative care. You are a passionate advocate for quality care, a collaborative leader, and a role model of emotional and cultural intelligence. You inspire others to excel and lead with purpose.
Reporting to the Director of Clinical Practice and Education, under the leadership of the Chief Nursing Officer, you will help shape the future of clinical excellence at Bayshore.DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and support the development, implementation, evaluation, and optimization of selected clinical programs, including palliative care in all disease states; this includes education, policy and procedure development, monitoring and communication of key performance indicators.
- Develop, implement, evaluate, and promote clinical policies, procedures and protocols based on evidence-based practices, professional standards, and guidelines.
- Actively supports, advocates, and advances all components of the Clinical Practice Strategy.
- Facilitate a learning environment where evidence-based knowledge is translated via education and ‘train the trainer’ to support the Clinical Manager and optimize the client/patient’s outcomes and experiences. This includes identifying learning needs and developing education plans and activities aimed at improving clinical knowledge, skills, and competencies and supporting the ongoing professional development of professional and paraprofessional staff.
- Maintain current knowledge and expertise of evidenced-based practice.
- Keep current on emerging trends and issues including up to date documentation of selected Provincial Regulatory body’s Standards of Practice, and liaise with Provincial regulating bodies, as required.
- Act as a resource and provide guidance to the Bayshore Business Divisions as requested, to ensure compliance with all relevant federal and provincial legislated standards of professional practice as well as internal policies.
- Acts a change leader to support and ensure revised and/or new clinical practice initiatives, and policy/procedures/forms are implemented and adopted seamlessly into practice and old practices/forms/policies are replaced.
- Actively participates as a member of the Clinical/Quality Response Team (CQRT) and provides on-call coverage during and after business hours.
- Lead and support clinical projects as approved by the Director of Clinical Practice & Education. Ensures local clinical teams are engaged in activities that directly affects them.
- Supports the clinical manager and HR in related professional and paraprofessional practice and misconduct issues. Escalates for further investigation to the Director of Clinical Practice and the Chief Clinical/Nursing Officer.
- Provide an active leadership role in the design, implementation, adoption, and sustainability of integrated digital health systems (e.g., electronic medical records, portals, etc.), for professionals and paraprofessionals, resulting in greater efficiency in the utilization of digital health systems for the delivery of safe, high-quality evidence-based care.
- Adhere to Bayshore policies and procedures.
- As the clinical subject matter expect, participates in Quality of Care reviews and supports and monitors the achievement of clinical quality improvements in the respective Bayshore Business division. Participate in and contribute to external thought leadership and education activities.
- Contribute to methods aimed at promotion and improvement of team engagement.
- All duties and responsibilities of this position will be performed with consideration to client/patient safety and well-being.
- Maintain privacy & confidentiality of client/patient, employee, and corporate information, including appropriate digital/cybersecurity safeguards.
- Complete other tasks and duties as requested.
SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Comply with Bayshore’s Health and Safety policies and procedures, safe work practices and requirements, including but not limited to Infection Prevention & Control.
- Take reasonable care to work safely and carry out duties as to not cause accidental injury to self, fellow employees, or the general public.
- Monitor compliance with health and safety policies, procedures, and standards.
- Communicate all health and safety information including, but not limited to, policies, procedures, standards, hazards, hazard control and safe work practices.
- Participates in proactive Health & Safety activities while performing all duties.
- Immediately report all injuries, near misses or potential hazards to direct supervisor or alternate as appropriate.
- Always maintain and promote a safe working environment.
- Maintain awareness of role and participate in emergency response and/or drills a required.
- Review and maintain all workplace harassment and/or violence policies and expectations.
REMOTEQualificationsEducation
A master’s degree in nursing or in another health-related profession. Certification and expertise in respective clinical programs. Current registration with the regulatory college within the province of residence is required.Experience
Minimum of 5 to 10 years of clinical practice or leadership.
Advanced knowledge and related experience of the principles, practices, and methods of nursing; experience in the development of community and homecare and client/patient teaching programs; knowledge of theoretical frameworks and research application.Required Skills and Abilities
Exceptional interpersonal skills, ability to work autonomously and as part of a team, ability to meet deadlines, demonstrated track record of high productivity, confidence, and sound judgment in working with a variety of professional and paraprofessional staff.Exceptional clinical skills, ability to work collaboratively, assume leadership responsibilities, and communicate effectively. Demonstrates basic clinical analysis and informatics competencies (e.g., device application and information communication technology basic skills).
The CPL will maintain a home office, however some travel to branch locations throughout Canada is required for the position. The ability to speak French is an asset.
