Clinical Nurse Specialist, Wound Care

Elevate clinical practice across multiple units by translating your specialized expertise into actionable strategies that support frontline teams. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Wound Care at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, you will guide nursing teams in delivering advanced care to patients facing layered medical needs within a rehabilitation and complex continuing care environment. Your clinical insight will be relied upon to consult on new referrals, suggest targeted care orders, and shape comprehensive care plans that drive patient progress. By leading the development of clinical policies and medical directives, in close collaboration with the nursing education and academic practice department, you will help cultivate a highly capable workforce equipped to manage evolving patient needs.

Wound care is a rapidly advancing science and this role gives you the platform to apply knowledge directly to complex recovery scenarios. Your expertise will be essential when navigating difficult clinical presentations, including the unique opportunity to support patients transitioning from the internationally recognized sarcoma program at Mount Sinai Hospital. Operating through a consultative model alongside a resource nurse and physician lead, you will be our subject matter expert leading the implementation of advanced treatment frameworks to ensure consistent, high quality wound management.

Is this you?
Keeping pace with an evolving clinical environment is something you approach with genuine interest rather than obligation. You recognize that specialty practice must reflect current evidence, and you continuously integrate new knowledge into the consultation, coaching, and practice support you provide. As wound care science advances, you integrate emerging clinical approaches into the guidance and support you provide to frontline teams. Staff benefit from current, practical knowledge when navigating complex wound presentations and recovery scenarios. The result is a nursing team equipped to deliver evidence informed wound management with greater consistency and confidence.

Strong clinical judgment defines how you approach the consultative side of this role. When nursing teams bring forward complex patient situations, you draw on your advanced knowledge across acute and post-acute care to assess the full picture, identify the most pressing clinical priorities, and recommend targeted actions that move care forward. Whether assessing a new referral, recommending targeted care orders, or helping a team reframe their approach to a difficult case, your judgment is a resource that staff rely on with confidence. This consultative strength directly supports better outcomes for the patients in this environment whose needs are often complex and multifaceted.

Working across disciplines, build credibility, earn trust, and move people toward a shared clinical direction. Through clear communication and genuine respect for diverse perspectives, you create the conditions for staff to be receptive to new approaches and confident in applying them. Whether working alongside bedside nurses, collaborating with the nursing education department, or engaging interdisciplinary partners on complex care plans, you navigate those relationships with the consistency and intention that good collaboration requires. You are confident driving meaningful practice change without direct authority, drawing on the strength of relationships to give your influence impact.

About this team:
The Nursing Practice and Education team is a dynamic group of clinical educators and clinical expertise dedicated to advancing nursing excellence through evidence-based learning and professional development. The team partners closely with frontline staff, clinical leaders, and interprofessional colleagues to support safe, high-quality, and patient-centred care across the organization. With a strong focus on onboarding, continuing education, and practice change, the team ensures nurses are equipped to meet the evolving needs of patients and the health system. Grounded in collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, the Nursing Practice and Education team plays a key role in strengthening clinical competence, confidence, and leadership at all levels of nursing practice.

In this role you will:

• Perform comprehensive assessments to identify symptoms, underlying health conditions, physical, functional, emotional and cognitive status, home environment issues and home supports needed for patients with complex wounds and ostomies
• Participate actively in wound care rounds, providing insights that inform and strengthen interdisciplinary care decisions
• Consult on complex new referrals, offering targeted recommendations for care orders and care plan development
• Lead hospital wide quality improvement initiatives
• Participate in and lead relevant committees, working groups, and interprofessional forums
• Lead practice improvement initiatives within departments or units
• Serve as a clinical expert resource for nursing staff and other health care professionals
• Identify and apply research, practice guidelines, and current best practices 
• Participate in and lead programmatic development of the clinical area with a focus on improving the patient and staff experience
• Develop and revise clinical policies, guidelines, and protocols and promote patient safety and quality care standards 
• Monitor compliance with regulatory standards and accreditation requirements
• Analyze patient outcomes, quality metrics and evidence at the point of care for the purposes of improving nursing practice 
• Deliver, coordinate and participate in inter-professional education and professional development activities/programs
• Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required

Job Requirements
Mandatory

• Current certificate of registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario (CNO) in good standing
• Successful completion of a Master’s degree in nursing or related field from a CNO-accredited academic institution
• Successful completion of one of the following specialty certificates or Wound Care Education programs; Wound, Ostomy and Continence CNA Certification; International Interprofessional Wound Care Course (IIWCC-CAN); Wound, Ostomy and Continence Education Program (WOC-EP™); Wound Healing Master's Program

• Member of Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO)
• Eligible for cross-appointment to an academic institution
• 3 years of clinical experience in wound care as a CNS or Advance Practice Nurse 

Skills and Knowledge

• Skilled in developing, monitoring, and evaluating care plans created in collaboration with the interprofessional team
• Program planning and evaluation methodology skills
• Expert knowledge in this clinical nursing specialty
• Knowledge of adult learning principles, curriculum development, and teaching learning strategies
• Experience in developing clinical tools such as policies/procedures, clinical protocols, order sets
• Demonstrated ability to lead and sustain change
• Knowledge of statistics and ability to analyse and synthesize fiscal and patient care data
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, leadership and organizational skills
• Excellent decision making, problem recognition, problem solving skills, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Commitment to collaborative and interprofessional practice
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Knowledge of Meditech or computerized documentation skills
• Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance history

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 416-586-4800 ext. 7050, or email [email protected].