Welcome to Willow Lodge
Our Willow Lodge family welcomes you to our loving, caring, relaxed community.
Friends and Families of Willow Lodge
January 30, 2023
Families and Friends of Willow Lodge:
I am excited to share that after two weeks of declaring our outbreak at Willow Lodge, we can open our doors to visitors, once again, effective today.
Please remember if you are not feeling well, do not visit.
When visiting, practice all precautions, masking, handwashing and sanitizing often. Do not remove your mask while in the home.
We are also asking that you wash your hands with soap and water upon entering the home.
Once again, thank you for your support as we contained this outbreak.
Janine Jaconelli
Executive Director Willow Lodge
We’re Looking for You!
Come work with us.
Registered Nurse (RN)
License Practical Nurse (LPN)
Continuing Care Assistant (CCA)
We are looking for Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Continuing Care Assistants to join our team!
These positions are rotating shifts in a long-term care home.
Willow Lodge has a longstanding excellent reputation and encompasses the Eden Alternative Philosophy of Care which makes it a wonderful place to live and work. We are a 61-bed facility with dynamic Care Partners.
Responsibilities
As team leaders, RN’s and LPNs are involved in all aspects of unit activities in the provision of nursing care to the resident. The RN and LPN actively participates in the nursing process to meet the specific needs of the residents as individuals ensuring current gerontological practice. The RN and LPN practices within the scope of the Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics as defined by the Nova Scotia College of Nurses (NSCN) and follows established facility policies and procedures while providing excellent care and coordinates resident care with other departments within Willow Lodge.
Continuing Care Assistant is responsible for providing direct and indirect Resident care under the supervision of the Charge Nurse and/or Director of Resident Care. The CCA works within his/her scope of practice and follows established facility policies and procedures while providing excellent care and coordinates resident care with other departments within Willow Lodge.
Qualifications
RN and LPN
Qualifications, Knowledge, Education, and Skills:
- Graduate of an approved Nursing Program and current registration with NSCN, Current First Aid and CPR
- Demonstrate competence in assessments, clinical care, and care planning
- Demonstrate a caring and compassionate attitude toward residents, recognizing Willow Lodge as their home
- Demonstrate interest and ability in a leadership role
- Excellent communication skills along with ability to adapt and cope with change
- Demonstrate initiative in gerontology and self-growth in this field
- Physically and mentally able to perform job duties with minimum supervision
- Medication administration, give direction and support
CCA
Qualifications, Knowledge, Education, and Skills:
- Completed a Continuing Care Assistant’s Program at a Level II facility.
- Embrace the Eden philosophy in alleviating the 3 plagues of loneliness, helplessness, and boredom.
- Physically and mentally suitable for employment.
- Demonstrate effective communication skills – verbal, oral and written.
- Demonstrate initiative in gerontology and self-growth in this field.
- Be excited about change & contribute to changing methods of care
- Demonstrate ability to be a team player.
- In addition, willingness to pick up additional hours is an asset and be flexible to work in all neighbourhoods.
Come Work with Us
If any of these positions interests you, please submit a letter of application along with your resume. Applications can be emailed to [email protected]
We pledge to eliminate loneliness, helplessness and boredom. We embody the essence of a community that includes everyone involved with our main goal of giving Residents empowerment over their lives and in doing so, we become educators by showing our community that aging is meaningful. In our community we create a warm inviting atmosphere, “its home”. We honour individuality, freedom to choose and ensure everyone feels equally important. Our Care Partners receive continued educational support and resources to help make their work meaningful and rewarding. We are committed to the Eden Alternative Philosophy.
Vision
Working together to eliminate loneliness, helplessness and boredom.
Mission
To continuously maintain and enhance a community in which Residents and Care Partners grow and thrive while providing a safe and nurturing environment.
Values
Respect, dignity, trust, compassion and inspiration
Our Philosophies
We believe that the rights of Residents, families, Care Partners, and volunteers must be recognized and upheld. We believe that each Resident with the support of their family, is responsible for directing their own care.
We believe that the rights of Residents, families, Care Partners, and volunteers must be recognized and upheld.
We believe that each Resident with the support of their family, is responsible for directing their own care.
We believe that excellence in service to our Residents can be achieved through the development, application and monitoring of high standards throughout the home.
We pledge to carry out the mission of Willow Lodge to the best of our ability through compassionate competent care, diligence in work, continuing education, and ongoing assessment.
Resident care depends on teamwork. We believe in each other and in the unique knowledge possessed by each of us. We will therefore work together to continually improve our services.
A great deal of research and planning has gone into Lynwood House. The Eden Alternative® approach was introduced to this new household and has evolved to a way of living in our whole building. Eden is a powerful tool for improving quality of life for people who live in a long-term care facility and are isolated in the community.
Realizing that loneliness, helplessness, and boredom contribute to the bulk of suffering in long-term care institutions, we have embarked on a journey as the Eden Alternative. This journey is based on the philosophy of care that transforms traditional “nursing homes” into living, growing, ever-changing environments for our Residents.
The Eden culture change focuses on giving care in a vibrant habitat full of life-enriching opportunities rather than providing “treatment” in an institutional setting. This is done by incorporating plants, animals and children into daily life.
These changes cannot happen overnight, nor without the support from our Care Partners, families, and community. Community education and support are key factors that will enable us to make the Eden journey successful.
Elements of Eden…Resident directed care where Residents are more involved in making decisions about their care. We’ve incorporated more plants, gardens and daily animal visits and have cats, a dog, birds, rabbits that live in our home. We have neighbourhoods instead of units. We will continue to work to eliminate the 3 most common plagues found in Residents living in nursing homes through great recreation programs, staff participating in moments that matter, an idea created by Care Partners to spend special one on one time with Residents during extra time a Care Partner might have. This enhances the quality of life for Residents, making life worth living.