Baycrest Long-Term Care
has an exciting opportunity for a
REGISTERED PRACTICAL NURSE (RPN)
Apotex 7
Posting Number: 9813
Position Type: Temporary Full-Time (up to 18 months)
Shift Type: Day-Evening (10:30-18:30), Alternate Weekends (subject to change)
Bi-Weekly Hours: 75 Hours, 8 hrs/shift
Union: SEIU Service Full-Time
Hourly Pay Rate: $38.41 - $39.02
Date Posted: April 15, 2026
Internal Closing Date: April 24, 2026
About Us
The Apotex Centre is Baycrest’s long-term care home. At Baycrest, we believe every older adult deserves care that honours who they are as an individual. Our care teams work closely with residents, families and caregivers to provide personalized support in a safe and compassionate environment.
Guided by our Jewish heritage, we are proud to offer our diverse community of residents care that helps each person live with meaning and dignity. Each floor has small, home-like spaces that make it easy to enjoy flexible schedules for meals, activities and personal care based on need and preference.
Job Summary
Apotex 7 is a Cognitive Support Unit. Residents residing on this floor are living with a wide range of cognitive and physical changes to their abilities – from mild to severe cognitive impairment and from ambulating independently, to being wheel-chair bound.
Key Responsibilities
- In collaboration with RN provides sound clinical knowledge and skills, acts as clinical expert and resource and provides comprehensive, quality client/family centred health care services from admission, through transfers and discharge
- Plans for, delivers and evaluates nursing interventions, including medications, as well as treatments which fall within the RPN’s scope of practice
- Performs client assessments
- Provides client-centred care within interdisciplinary care team to meet the personal care, activation, recreation and spiritual needs of clients
Qualifications
- Current registration, in good standing, from the College of Nurses of Ontario (‘CNO’) is required
- Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (‘BCLS’) certificate, Level C - Automated External Device (‘AED’) is required
- Experience in Long-Term Care, clients in day programs or residents in a Long-Term Care and Community Setting preferred
- Certificate in Dementia Care preferred
- Training in Gentle Persuasive Approach and U-First preferred
- Psychogeriatric experience, i.e. mental health assessment and intervention and working with responsive behaviours including various types of dementia, delirium, mental health issues preferred
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Basic computer skills – including MDS/InterRAI, Point Click Care, Microsoft Word and Excel preferred
