Registered Practical Nurse, Medical Rehab Care

As a Registered Practical Nurse in Medical Rehabilitative Care, you'll support patients recovering from complex medical conditions as they work toward improved strength, mobility, and independence. You’ll deliver consistent, practical nursing care that helps patients achieve their day-to-day recovery goals, while observing and responding to changes in their health status. The mix of medical diagnoses, including post-surgical care, infections, frailty, and cognitive impairment, keeps your work engaging and clinically stimulating. If you’re looking for a role where skilled nursing meets steady progress, this position offers meaningful impact alongside a collaborative, learning-focused team.

Is this you?
You are someone who brings both strong communication skills and emotional awareness to every interaction. You understand that patients recovering from illness or injury may feel frustrated, uncertain, or vulnerable and you respond with patience, empathy and calm reassurance. You take time to listen, explain, and encourage, always adjusting your approach to meet people where they are. Your ability to create trust through everyday interactions is part of what makes you a reliable and valued caregiver.

With patients recovering from a broad range of medical conditions, you rely on your well-rounded nursing knowledge to meet diverse and often overlapping needs. You’re flexible in how you approach care, able to adapt to each patient’s progress and respond to the unexpected. You apply critical thinking to make sound, informed decisions that support both safety and recovery. Through self-reflection, you turn daily experiences into opportunities to refine your approach and elevate the care you provide.

If you are looking for a place to learn, grow, and contribute from day one, medical rehabilitative care offers that opportunity. The diversity of patient needs keeps your practice dynamic, while the pace allows time to think, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned. It's a valuable starting point for building both competence and confidence in nursing.

About the Medical Rehabilitative Unit (4 North):
At Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, our 4N Medical Rehabilitative Care team supports patients through some of their most challenging and transformative recoveries. Our team of over 45 individuals, brings together nurses, physicians, and professionals from other health disciplines to support complex recoveries. We care for patients with a wide range of medical conditions (such as infections, recent surgeries, deconditioning, frailty, and cognitive impairment) who are working to regain strength, mobility, and functional independence. Many patients have multiple diagnoses and require both medical oversight and rehabilitation-focused support to progress with daily activities. Our team is highly collaborative and focused on helping each patient reach meaningful recovery goals.

In this role you will:

• Provide competent, evidence-based nursing care to assigned patients, consistent with the predictability and complexity of their health conditions
• Collaborate with the patient, significant others and interprofessional team in the provision of care
• Create and strengthen an environment conducive to professional and personal growth
• Be assigned patients with complex care needs that are well defined, have predictable outcomes, and manageable responses, following admission and assessment by a Registered Nurse confirming they meet these criteria
• Meet the standards and exercise judgement for providing safe, competent and ethical nursing care
• Contribute to patient and caregiver education, ensuring information is communicated effectively and respectfully
• Participate in interprofessional safety huddles and team rounds
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification, as required

Job Requirements:

Mandatory

• Registered Practical Nurse with current Certificate of Competence from the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO)
• If graduated prior to 1995, must have medication administration certificate from an approved community college or equivalent course
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification

Preferred

• Diploma from a recognized RPN training program or equivalent
• Recent completion of a physical assessment course

Skills and Knowledge

• Familiarity with:
  • Regulated Health Professions Act
  • Occupational Health and Safety Act, WHMIS
  • Standards of Nursing Practice of the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Excellent assessment and clinical skills
• Demonstrated ability in providing patient-focused care
• Proven ability to make decisions and manage workload in a fast-paced work environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Rotation: Day/Evening 

Salary: Minimum - $38.518/hour; Maximum - $39.799/hour

Vacancy Type: This position is for replacement opportunity. 

If this sounds like you and you feel ready to build your practical nursing career within medical rehabilitative care, apply now and let us know why you’d be a great addition to our team.

Employment at Sinai Health is conditional upon the verification of credentials, completion of a health review, and demonstrating proof of immunity and vaccination status of vaccine-preventable diseases. All employees and affiliates will follow safe work practices and comply with health and safety policies, procedures and training. If you believe you are one of the very few people who may require an exemption from vaccination, supporting medical information must be submitted to our Occupational Health department, who will review and assess.

Sinai Health is comprised of Mount Sinai Hospital, Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and our system partner Circle of Care. We deliver excellent care in hospital, community and home, focusing on the comprehensive needs of people. Sinai Health discovers and translates scientific breakthroughs, pushes boundaries for health solutions and educates future clinical and scientific leaders. Clinical areas of specialization include rehabilitation and complex continuing care, surgery and oncology, urgent and critical care, and women’s and infants’ health. The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute ranks among the top ten biomedical research institutes in the world. Sinai Health is a full affiliate of the University of Toronto.

As an equal opportunity employer who understands that diversity enriches our community and culture, we invite applications from all qualified candidates including Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, disabled people/people with disabilities, women, and members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. If you require accommodation(s) due to disability at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact Show phone number, or email View email address on careers.hennickbridgepointhospital.ca .