Nurse Practitioner, Mental Health

Humber River Health. Lighting New Ways In Healthcare.

Since opening our doors in 2015 as North America’s first fully digital hospital, we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Humber River Health serves a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto. Equity, inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our team.

We use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care, making technology work for staff and physicians so they have more time with patients, reduce inefficiencies, and lower the chance of errors. Humber River Health is affiliated with the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and is committed to becoming a community academic hospital. Our Research Strategy is framed by Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection.

At Humber River Health, we’re not hoping for a renaissance; we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way as we continue our journey toward high reliability care.

Adult Outpatient Mental Health Clinic – Nurse Practitioner to work with the interdisciplinary team. If you are a compassionate Nurse Practitioner focused on delivering high-quality, safe care, we invite you to read the details below and apply.

Employment Status: Temporary Full Time

Duration: July 2026 - subject to change as per Article B – Management Functions

Reporting Relationship: Manager, Mental Health

Schedule Requirements: Days and some evenings - subject to change as per Article B – Management Functions

Location: Humber River Health, Wilson

Employee Group: ONA

Hiring Salary Range: $63.66 - $79.12

The Nurse Practitioner is a leadership role within a multidisciplinary and inter-professional team. The Nurse Practitioner works in collaboration and consultation with psychiatrists, other medical staff, nurses and members of the inter-professional health care team to respond to the needs of outpatient mental health patients. The Nurse Practitioner partners with all relevant stakeholders, excelling in clinical care, leadership, education and research.

This position serves patients with complex multiple illnesses where psychiatric conditions require care and treatment alongside other chronic co-morbidities (addictions, medical problems, etc.).

Patient Care:

• Performs initial psychiatric assessment upon admission.
• Provides holistic assessment of and care for patients and families with a focus on health promotion, disease prevention, health maintenance and rehabilitation.
• Completes health histories and physical examinations.
• Develops and coordinates a plan of care that considers the individual patient’s health status, preferences, as well as best practice guidelines and current evidence-based research.
• Formulates and communicates diagnoses, determines the need for medical orders and any necessary diagnostic tests, as per scope of practice, including labs, X-rays, ECGs and ultrasounds, and interprets and acts on the results.
• Maintains ongoing psychiatric follow up care.
• Monitors the ongoing therapy of patients with chronic stable illnesses by providing pharmacologic and counseling interventions; may prescribe, initiate, monitor and adjust psychotropic medication.
• Prescribes medications within scope of practice.
• Maintains ongoing patient documentation, including assessment findings, treatment plans and progress.
• Offers phone consultation/triage for acute episodic illness.
• Consistently records and documents in the patient’s electronic health record.
• Evaluation of outcomes of patient care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Works in a manner to ensure safety to oneself, patients and their families, colleagues and the work environment.
• Assists in the training and development of staff as required.
• Arranges follow-up appointments as necessary.

Referral/Consultation/Collaboration:

• Clinical consultation to create individualized plans of care.
• Consults with and makes…