Job Description

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $32.84/Hr. - CAD $41.35/Hr.

We’re currently hiring for an LPN Casting position — join a specialized team where your skills directly support patient recovery and care across orthopaedic, plastics, and minor surgery services!

Reporting to the Patient Care Manager and working under the direction of a Registered Nurse and/or Plastic and Orthopaedic Physician, this role combines hands-on orthopaedic care with holistic nursing support within an interdisciplinary environment. As an LPN Casting, you’ll play an important role in supporting patients through treatment, recovery, and education.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Applying, modifying, and adjusting casts, splints, bandages, and traction equipment.
• Providing wound care and removing sutures, staples, casts, and pins as directed.
• Assessing patients’ needs, implementing care plans, and documenting care.
• Collaborating with the interdisciplinary team, advocating for patients, and supporting care conferences.
• Assisting with orientation of staff/students and providing support to the Minor Surgery Clinic as needed.
• Operating within the framework of Providence Health Care’s mission, vision, and values.

Please note that this is a temporary position with an end date of October 1, 2027.

What You Bring

Education

• Graduation from a recognized program for Licensed Practical Nurses, plus successful completion of recognized, formal post-basic education in advanced orthopedics for LPNs.
• Current full practicing licensure with the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of BC (CLPNBC).

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) procedures appropriate for the area of service.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to operate related equipment.
• Ability to work as a member in an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to apply decision making and analytical skills.
• Ability to role model conflict resolution strategies.
• Ability to prioritize and organize work.
• Ability to teach and identify patient/resident learning needs

What We Offer

• State-of-the-art facilities:  The new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will be the most innovative approach to the delivery of integrated care in B.C. and Canada, designed to appropriately address the future health needs of patients, families and our communities. From hospital care to primary and community health solutions, the new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will continue to lead innovations in care, research, and teaching. The new St. Paul’s Hospital is expected to open in 2027.
• Competitive pay: $32.84 to $41.35 CAD per hour, depending on experience.
• Inclusive culture: We respect the diversity, dignity and interdependence of all persons. We value the cultural richness that our diverse workforce brings to the care of our equally diverse population of patients and residents.
• Comprehensive benefits: These are unionized roles that include a robust benefits package, a competitive pension plan, and even a 50% discount on transit passes for eligible employees!

Your Day to Day:

• Provides safe and respectful nursing care to an assigned group of patients/residents, according to established policies and procedures, in combination with evolving individualized care plans and setting care priorities.

• Conducts head-to-toe assessments, monitors and recognizes abnormal signs or symptoms including laboratory values, and communicates with the RN/RPN, if warranted. Consults other members of the interdisciplinary care team as required. Supports and partners with the RN/RPN in the care of patients/residents with complex or unpredictable outcomes.

• Communicates with physician regarding assigned patient/resident and carries out verbal and/or written orders as required. Transcribes orders onto appropriate patient/resident record and processes written orders as needed.

• Documents care provided, such as assessments, status, progress, treatments, changes in condition, medications administered and discharge planning, in manual and/or computerized environment.

• Fabricates and applies splints and bandages, including finger splints, triangular slings, velpeau bandages, pressure dressing, humeral splints and knee splints, and checks patient circulation as required.

• Removes sutures, staples, casts and pins, and cleans and dresses wounds according to plastic and/or orthopaedic physician.

• Assists the Registered Nurse and/or Plastic and/or Orthopaedic Physician with the fitting of crutches, and provides instructions to the patient for walking with crutches.

• Distributes appropriate teaching cards, and answers questions regarding instructions.

• Maintains orthopaedic supplies by methods such monitoring supply levels, completing requisition, forwarding for appropriate authorization, and forwarding to Stores as required.

Who We Are:

Providence Health Care is one of the largest faith-based health care organizations in Canada. For the people at Providence, living our Mission, Vision and Values means providing British Columbians with compassionate, socially just, exceptional and innovative care every day.

From our humble roots 129 years ago, Providence has grown into globally renowned research, teaching, and care organization. As individuals within a mission-driven organization, we choose to be part of Providence Health Care because we value the organization’s long commitment to social justice and compassionate care, and its commitment to the process of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

We acknowledge that Providence Health Care and the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.