Licensed Practical Nurse

GR Baker Memorial Hospital is accepting applications for a relief full time Licensed Practical Nurse in Quesnel BC. Shift Rotation for this position is Days, Nights - 07:00 to 19:00, 19:00 to 07:00. The approximate end date of this term is December 31, 2022.

GR Baker Memorial Hospital is a full care hospital with 26 acute beds, 4 ICU beds and 5 crisis stabilization beds. Some services provided are laboratory, diagnostic imaging, pharmacy, home and community care and home support, mental health and addictions, general surgery, internal medicine, otolaryngology (ENT), community cancer care, physiotherapy, respiratory therapy, environmental health and speech and language therapy. Visiting specialists in cardiology, pediatrics, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, urology and ophthalmology.

What Northern Health has to offer you!

  • Comprehensive benefit packages including MSP, extended health/dental and a municipal pension plan for part-time and full-time employees.  Casuals have the option of paying for benefits.
  • Relocation is available for this position
  • Employee referral program
  • Employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities
  • Spectacular outdoor activities and the shortest commutes in BC

Build on your experience by:

  • Assessing patient/resident/family’s actual and potential strengths and limitations including physiological, psychological, socio-cultural,  and spiritual needs.  Where appropriate, encourages patient/resident participation in activities of daily living.
  • Contributing to the development and ongoing changes to the individualized plan of care, including attending and providing input into multidisciplinary care planning meetings and family conferences.
  • Performing nursing care and procedures and evaluates outcomes.  Administers medications to assigned patients/residents according to unit specific protocols.
  • Participating in admissions, discharges, and transfers of patients/residents according to agency operating policies and procedures.

Your background includes:

  • Registration with BC College of Nurses and Midwives as a practicing LPN registrant.

Who we are
Northern Health is geographically British Columbia’s largest health authority spanning over 600,000 km’s of BC’s most beautiful landscapes! Delivering hospital and community-based health care to over 300,000 northern residences include 54 first nations’ communities.

Employing more than 7,000 staff throughout the region, Northern Health provides exceptional health services for Northerners, through the efforts of dedicated staff and physicians, in partnership with communities and organizations in Northern BC.

There is a wide variety of career opportunities available in our two dozen hospitals, 25 long-term care facilities, public health units and many other offices providing specialized services.