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Careers

 

Imagine a career with flexible scheduling and more control over your work day…

Whether you are just starting out in your career or you are a veteran healthcare provider, VON can provide you with a rewarding and challenging career path that meets your professional needs.

Career opportunities for many health professionals

Whatever experience or area of specialization you have, there is a rewarding career path for at VON:

  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Registered Nurses
  • Registered Practical Nurses/ Licensed Practical Nurses
  • Specialized Nursing
    • Occupational Health
    • Mental Health
    • Geriatric
    • Palliative Care
    • Pediatric
    • Enterostomal Therapy
    • Wound Management
    • Foot Care
    • Continence Management
  • Personal Support Workers / Home Support Workers / Health Care Aids / Continuing Care Associates

  • Allied Health Professionals

  • Organizational Support
  • Finance
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Practice, Quality and Risk
  • Communications
  • Business Development
  • Fund Development

Build a rewarding career

Rewarding Career
  • Reinvigorate – or jumpstart – your career and passion for healthcare
  • Make a dramatic and personal difference to the lives of your clients
  • Work with greater independence in an environment without walls, without boundaries, and no bureaucracy
  • Develop one-on-one relationships with your clients and see them progress from an acute state to recovery

Acheive a work/life balance

Work Life Balance
  • Finally! Balance your home and family life with a rewarding and stimulating career that can grow with your aspirations and needs
  • Work predictable hours with greater independence and flexibility: no more nights!

Competitive Compensation

Rewarding Career
  • Enjoy a competitive compensation program that includes a pension plan, comprehensive group benefits coverage, and paid mileage and travel time!
  • Get guaranteed hours of work with paid mileage for client visits
  • Receive an annual vacation and cumulative sick leave entitlement

Do more with VON!

Do more with VON
  • Leverage your experience to become a more independent healthcare provider who provides a variety of services.
  • Get invaluable, hands-on experience with a broad variety of clients of all ages and with various health care needs
  • Broaden your professional network and meet other experts and caregivers from across the country through a variety of leading edge VON programs, services, events and research initiatives: from discussion boards to tele-health clinics

A progressive national organization with a clear vision

VON has a clear vision
  • Be part of a national health care organization that has defined and advanced home health care in Canada…since 1897
  • Get involved with VON’s extensive research and evaluation projects that identify service needs and help define action plans for the future of homecare in Canada
  • Take advantage of state-of-the-art technological advances through a new partnership with IBM: get real-time access to patient information without having to search through individual records
  • Get in-depth insight and ongoing updates on healthcare initiatives and trends from a variety of projects and work across the country

What our staff say about working at VON

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Meet Melanie, VON Nurse

<span class="success_name">Meet Melanie</span>, VON Nurse

It is nursing across a huge and many different populations, different age groups from babies to people over a hundred years old.

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Meet Lucy, VON Nurse

<span class="success_name">Meet Lucy</span>, VON Nurse

It is a very rewarding experience that you will not get in a acute setting. You see people come home. You see them get well. You can maximize your skills. You can optimize your own level of nursing.

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Meet Shirley, VON Nurse

<span class="success_name">Meet Shirley</span>, VON Nurse

We are able to keep them [patients] in their home…they don’t have to go to the hospital for care. It’s just a wonderful feeling and you feel very proud!

 


 
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