Employment Terms: Full Time, 17-Month Contract Start date: January 2027 End date: June 2028

With a commitment to equity and fairness, students learn that what makes us different as individuals makes us stronger as a community. A rigorous academic program is supported by accomplished faculty, exceptional co-curricular programming, and state-of-the-art facilities. The UCC experience is underpinned by five core values: learning, pluralism, service, community, and wellbeing. Among its strategic goals is UCC’s ambition to become more diverse and inclusive. This is supported by a recognition that no learning community is whole without the inclusion and amplification of multiple voices; UCC is committed to fostering belonging, striving for justice and peace among all people, and addressing systemic and structural forms of oppression.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and adaptable individual To provide nursing care to the student body, including assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation of student health and health care programs, direct nursing care, and counselling services, in accordance with the guidelines and requirements of the College of Nurses of Ontario Standards of Nursing Practice, and the Health Discipline Act. Students can access health teaching, nursing assessment, advice and treatment, counselling, and general support in a confidential manner.

Boarding Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

- Participate in designated duty periods, including one weekly boarding duty, and the regular weekend supervision rotation, supporting the routines of the house;
- Participate in the delivery and supervision of scheduled weekend programs;




- Attend Boarding team meetings as required.

Nursing Care And Counselling

- Carry out thorough nursing physical and/or mental health assessments of students that present feeling unwell, injured, or expressing concerns about their social-emotional wellbeing;
- Provide emergency assessment, first aid and health care to ill or injured students, and determine if additional care is required (e.g. doctor, emergency room care);
- Conduct illness/conditions assessment, management and monitoring of students who become symptomatic or ill at school; includes supervision of students in a dedicated isolation space on campus and following up and engaging with parents, faculty and staff to ensure local public health authority and ministry guidelines are followed;
- Plan and implement individual care programs for students to address physical and socio-emotional health concerns, including administering over-the- counter medications and treatments in accordance with UCC policies and protocols, best practice guidelines or as prescribed;
- Provide counselling to students experiencing mental health problems, and refer forward if necessary to psychologist, counsellor or outside support;
- Partner with the school community, outside professionals and parents to identify general health needs;




- Complete incident reports and maintain student health records up to date;
- Coordinate individual health care plans with the athletic therapist where appropriate;
- Collaborate with Centre for Learning regarding academic support plans where necessary;
- Communicate where appropriate with faculty regarding Care Plans;
- Collaborate with Residential team around boarding students’ health and Care Plans;
- Establish a presence and provide Health Centre support in the boarding houses, including evenings and occasional weekends;
- Collaborate with Health Centre nurses and other Health Centre personnel as required to provide cross-coverage and continuity of care to the whole school population;
- Collaborate with the Director, Student Health Services to ensure coverage of both health centres and productive communication of all Care Plans to administration and necessary faculty, Centre for Learning.

Health Promotion

- Develop and deliver health promotion programs to support overall health and wellbeing, including programs on nutrition, physical activity, mental health and wellbeing, healthy relationships, substance use, suicide, self harm and other topics relevant to the student body or specific segments of the student body;
- Provide education for parents, caregivers and staff on health promotion, disease prevention, childhood illnesses, and the control of communicable diseases;
- Develop and deliver training programs for staff to support students with prevalent medical conditions such as anaphylaxis, asthma, diabetes, and/or epilepsy, as per institutional policy and in accordance with the Ministry of Education PPM - 161; <

📌 Boarding Registered Nurse, Upper School (Canada)
🏢 Upper Canada College
📍 Canada