ONA Job PostingPosition: Registered Nurse
Dept: Diabetes Management Centre
Job ID: 7450
Status: Full Time
Program: Out-Patient Medicine
Role Level: CPS04.2 - $41.15 - $58.98
Site: 89 Queensway
Shifts: Days, Evenings
Posted: May 19, 2026
Internal Deadline: May 26, 2026
Trillium Health Partners is one of Canada’s largest community-based teaching hospitals, serving the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities through the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, the Reactivation care Centre (Church Site) and the new THP-UHN Reactivation Care Centre. Guided by our values of compassion, excellence, and courage, and through our strategic roadmap, Plan to 2030 , we are creating a new kind of health care - defined not by illness, but by the health and well-being of people and communities.
Position Summary:- Responsible for development of nursing care plans and counselling for patients with diabetes and/or co-morbidities such as renal, cardiovascular disease and mental illness
- Responsible and accountable for decisions and actions in the provision and management of nursing care for patients with diabetes in a collaborative inter-professional team environment
- Broad understanding of resources available in the community to help support caseload of patients through critical thinking and problem solving to ensure best practices are maintained
- Assist and support clients to gain the knowledge, skills, attitude and self-awareness necessary to effectively manage his/her diabetes
- Monthly rotations in the inpatient units at the Mississauga Hospital to support bedside teaching for diabetes and safe discharge.
- Function as a part of a multidisciplinary team, and act as a resource for other health care providers and the community
- Using a variety of teaching methods, incorporating the principles of adult education and a variety of client engagement or empowerment modalities to facilitate behaviour change (ie motivational interviewing, stages of change )
- Facilitates group education programs for patients as needed
- Develops appropriate education materials to meet the needs of the clients
- Assists in program planning and evaluation
Key Qualifications:- Certified Diabetes Educator
- Membership in the Diabetes Educator Section of Diabetes Canada preferred
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in counselling clients with diabetes on an individual and group basis
- Good working knowledge of diabetes and comorbidities through the lifecycle, adult teaching principles and patient engagement strategies
- Good working knowledge of diabetes medications, including insulin
- Highly effective decision making, problem solving and organizational skills combined with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written
- Proficiency in computers, Microsoft Office and experience with electronic medical records and good keyboarding skills are essential
- Reliable, flexible, creative professional, able to work effectively and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team approach required
- Experience using medical directives an asset
- Additional language an asset
- Positive attendance and work record essential
- Member in good standing with College of Nurses of Ontario
To pursue this career opportunity, please visit our website: www.trilliumhealthpartners.ca
Internal Candidates who believe they possess the necessary qualifications and experience for this position and who have been in their current position for at least six (6) months are encouraged to apply.
Candidates are selected on the basis of their skill, ability, experience and qualifications.
Where these factors are relatively equal sen