Career Opportunities: Nurse Practitioner - Eating Disorder (104531)

Requisition ID104531-Posted09/29/2026-Nursing

Hours of Work: Permanent Full-Time Position

Pay Band: $67.07-$76.29

Union: ONA

DESCRIPTION

Nurse Practitioners (NP) are recognized for their expertise in a specialized area of practice. Nurse Practitioners ensure the deliberate, purposeful and integrated use of in-depth nursing knowledge, research and clinical expertise. It also involves integration of knowledge from other disciplines into the practice of nursing. NPs have the depth and breadth of knowledge required to provide a range of strategies to meet the complex needs of patients. They influence the practice of nurses by facilitating the integration of research-based knowledge into practice. They are involved in planning, coordinating, implementing, and evaluating programs to meet patient needs through partnerships and intersectional collaboration. Their practice reflects substantial autonomy and independence with a high level of accountability. In addition, the NP may include activities in their practice that have been traditionally considered outside the scope of nursing practice. They fulfill the requirements for reflective practice mandated by the College of Nurses of Ontario regulatory body.

The NP working in Mental Health & Addiction Care will utilize their advanced nursing knowledge and skill to direct and provide optimal care to patients for specialized assessment and treatment. The NP will conduct physical/medical assessments; mental health and addictions risk assessments, and stabilization of patients, in addition to providing the full scope of nursing care to patients. This position will practice at a high level of autonomy within a collaborative practice,



and will formulate clinical decisions and development of a patient care plan.

The Nurse Practitioner provides services in a manner consistent with KHSC’s Mission, Vision and Values and that reflects the core values of Patient and Family Centred Care (dignity, respect, information sharing, participation, and collaboration); practices in accordance with the standards of professional practice and ethical values as defined by the College of Nurses of Ontario; is accountable and responsible for the identification of knowledge and skills necessary to achieve competency within a given scope of practice; is able to demonstrate competencies that are essential for the delivery of safe and effective patient care; applies a unique set of skills and knowledge, and practices within the specified authority for performance of additional controlled acts; works as a member of an interdisciplinary team to promote and foster a culture of understanding and compassion with a large patient population; works to promote, restore and improve the patient’s independence, understanding of mental health and their role in its self-management; assist in the development of strategies to promote wellness and increase quality of life through education, specialized programming and a holistic approach to care towards the effort of reducing emergency department visits,



hospital admissions and specialist referrals; consults and communicates effectively with patients, families, professionals, support personnel and other community agencies.

The role will be primarily clinical but the NP will have a research/evaluation and educative responsibility within the program; and participate in service and hospital wide activities and programs that model and promote a safe and healthy patient-centred setting and that contribute to quality improvement and risk management initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES INCLUDE :

Care Delivery System Responsibilities

- Develops and uses multiple assessment strategies within a patient-centered nursing framework for individual patients and the patient population.
- Discriminates and makes qualitative/quantitative distinctions from multiple sources of data, often in ambiguous and complex situations, when making clinical decisions.
- Demonstrates an in-depth understanding and analysis of the complex interaction of presenting sociological and biophysiological processes, determinants of health and patients’ lived experience.
- Draws on experiential knowledge and a body of current knowledge about the patient population to predict, anticipate and explain the wide range of patient responses to actual or potential health problems.
- Uses critical thinking and synthesis skills to guide decision-making in complicated, unpredictable and dynamic situations.
- Uses multiple interventions (e.g., interpersonal, teaching, coaching, counselling, technological, pharmaceutical) to influence patient health status and quality of life.
- Coordinates the plan of care and mobilizes patient and other resources to achieve in

📌 Nurse Practitioner (Kingston)
🏢 Kingston General Hospital
📍 Kingston