Careers - VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) - Canada's largest, not-for-profit, charitable home care and community care organization

Careers

VON builds rewarding careers through a variety of programs and resources: from free tele-health workshops and discussion forums to ongoing research

VON is Canada’s largest charitable non-profit, community and home care provider.

A network of 14,000 staff and volunteers now help deliver the most innovative home care programs and services in over 1,300 communities from coast-to-coast.

For health care practitioners that are confident in their skills and who want to improve the quality of people’s lives – one person at a time – VON offers an ideal career path.

Here are just a few of the many career building activities, resources, programs and services available when you become a VON healthcare professional:

Innovative Programs and Services

Community support services including meals on wheels, transportation, volunteer visits, home maintenance and others
VON takes a leadership role in health promotion through various programs including immunization, wellness clinics, occupational health and others
Our health care professionals meet the needs of their local community through Home Health Care Services such as:

Wound Care, Palliative Care, Intravenous Care, Enterostomal Therapy, Paediatric Services, Respiratory Care, Dialysis, Footcare, Physiotherapy, Dietician Services and others

VON provides home support to millions of Canadian each year with services such as:

Personal Care and Companion Services, Light Housekeeping, Respite Care, Meal Preparation, Adult & Alzheimer’s Day Programs, Supportive Housing, and Retirement Education

Get involved with a variety special VON projects including:

Aboriginal Health Initiative, Assembly of First Nations, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Healthy Baby & Me, Senior’s Exercise Project and others

History, vision and mission

Join an organization with over 100 years of history and see how VON pioneered health services in Canada
Be part of the VON vision and strategic plan for home and community care in Canada – within an integrated health care system.
VON is dedicated to being Canada’s leading charitable organization addressing community and social needs

Diversify your network

Connect with other caregivers, ask experts questions, participate in online learning sessions, access extensive information, and participate in informative discussion boards through Caregiver Connect
Participate in a variety of VON coordinated events and projects designed to share knowledge about respite through Care Renewal
Gain insight and invaluable knowledge: VON leads several research and evaluation projects to support our ongoing work and to advance our mission

What our staff say about working at VON

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Meet Samantha, VON Nurse Manager

Meet Samantha, VON Nurse Manager

I don’t have that opportunity to say, ‘okay, today I am going to be a cardiac nurse and that is all I am going to know.’ When you leave the home [as a VON healthcare provider], you have to be prepared to do everything.

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Meet Denise, VON Nurse

Meet Denise, VON Nurse

Being a VON nurse to me means everything... because I have worked in the hospital, I have worked in home care and I wanted to combine both of them.

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Meet Victoria, VON Nurse

Meet Victoria, VON Nurse

I love the job as much today as I did 13 years ago when I started. It is above and beyond. I am where I am supposed to be.