SickKids – world-class hospital, world-class employer
About SickKids
The Hospital for Sick Children, popularly known as SickKids, is Canada’s leading centre dedicated to improving children’s health and one of the world’s leading academic health sciences centres. Known for innovation, excellence, compassion and family-centred care, SickKids is focused on improving health outcomes through the integration of patient care, research and learning. Approximately 8,000 staff and over 1,000 volunteers are dedicated to our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.
While SickKids provides a comprehensive array of paediatric services, it is world-renowned for the delivery of the most complex and specialized health care, including advanced cancer therapies, complex surgical interventions, advanced cardiac surgeries, and multi-organ transplantation. The Hospital for Sick Children is the only hospital in Canada where patients can come for certain types of specialized treatment.
Working at The Hospital for Sick Children – Benefits to recent graduates
• Knowing you are making an impact and changing the world through working with your colleagues to advance our vision of Healthier Children. A Better World.
• Winner of multiple workplace awards: Canada’s Top 100 Employers; Canada’s Top 40 Research Institutes; Quality Healthcare Workplace Award (Platinum)
• Training and professional develop focused through our own Learning Institute.
• Generous tuition subsidies for courses related to you professional development.
• Competitive and family-friendly health benefits and compensation.
• Access to internal funding sources to make your innovation ideas become a reality through our Innovation Fund.
• Exceptional staff engagement, shown through our annual engagement survey.
• Conveniently located in downtown Toronto’s Discovery District.
• Entry-level positions are available in our corporate services, clinical support areas, nursing, and trainees in our Research Institute.
• Workplace Flexibility program, which allows eligible staff to work from home on a ad hoc basis, regularly one day per week, or regularly more than one day per week.
Outstanding volunteer opportunities for students
The Hospital for Sick Children offers several programs for secondary school students:
Kids Science (Research Institute) – an innovative program that provides at-risk youth with direct access to scientific leaders in a fun and supportive setting to help them make informed academic and career choices in the fields of science and technology.
Kids Science Mentorship Program (Research Institute) – students spend over 25 hours rotating through various labs and facilities from a Cochlear Implant Clinic to Medical Imagining Facilities.
University of Toronto/SickKids Paediatric Resident Advocacy Group’s High School Outreach Project (Social Paediatrics) – a curriculum-based series of small group sessions facilitated by paediatric residents for Grade 9 students.
SickKids Volunteer program (Volunteer Resources) – we work with school boards to recruit about 25 student volunteers per year. Students are assigned one of two areas, either in Child Life, where they work with patients and families, or as administrative co-ops who work at the front desks in units and clinics.
Benefits for new nurses
A Successful Start – you will participate in a comprehensive paediatric nursing orientation in conjunction with subspecialty orientation and a preceptored clinical practice experience to ensure you have the tools you need to be successful in our unique environment.
Career Growth – we offer opportunities for advancement based on performance and aptitude regardless of length of employment.
Flexible Scheduling – using 6-week blocks, our scheduling is a fair and collaborative process decided with your input.
Inter-professional Collaboration- our nurses are an integral part of the inter-professional care team with opportunity to significantly contribute to patient care outcomes.
Continued Learning – lifelong learning is encouraged through internal programs as well as through external means like academic and conference support.
Professional Development – we encourage participation in nursing practice committees, inter-professional care rounds, as well as preceptorship & mentorship programs.
Research & Education – Through various endowments for paediatric nursing research & education we promote scientific advancement in nursing practice and the leadership in evidence based practice.
Supportive Environment – our RN Council works to ensure we are providing our nurses with a supportive, collaborative, and innovative work environment.
International Experience – Nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children have the opportunity to work on our projects to build capacity and promote paediatric health throughout the world.