Companies Sponsoring Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) — Verified List, Updated Daily
If you're a Licensed Practical Nurse looking at Canada, you're sitting on one of the most PR-friendly occupations in the entire immigration system. No medical degree required, strong demand in nearly every province, and — as this list shows — a growing number of designated employers actively building their teams through PR-linked pathways rather than a full LMIA process.
This list only includes employers whose job offers plug directly into a live PR pathway in Canada, pulled from the QuestJobs database and refreshed daily. It's not just 18 LPN/RPN postings, either — the 12 employers below have 191 other open roles between them right now. When an employer is hiring an LPN alongside a Continuing Care Assistant, a Registered Nurse, and a Director of Care in the same city, that's a team being actively built, not a single seat being backfilled. That's the difference this list is built to show you.
Atlantic Immigration Program
The Atlantic Immigration Program is employer-driven and does not require an LMIA — you need a job offer from a designated employer in NB, NS, PE, or NL, plus a provincial endorsement.
The roles below are open listings as per the writing of this article. Postings change and are update daily, make sure to check QuestJobs for the latest jobs.
Shannex — 30 open roles across 11 locations in NS and NB
- Licensed Practical Nurse — Riverview, NB
- Licensed Practical Nurse — Quispamsis, NB
- Also hiring 10 Continuing Care Assistants across the same Atlantic region — the exact adjacent occupation our PSW readers already track, same employer, same designation
MacLeod Cares — 14 open roles across 8 locations in NS and PE
- Licensed Practical Nurse (Full-Time) — Shelburne, NS
- Licensed Practical Nurse (Full-Time) — Annapolis Royal, NS
- Also hiring 5 Continuing Care Assistants (Full-Time) and 2 Registered Nurses across the same rural NS/PE footprint
Health PEI — 20 open roles across 6 PEI locations, all posted the same day
- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — Prince Edward Island
- Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Long Term Care — Prince Edward Island
- 19 distinct job titles in a single day's posting batch, from Nurse Practitioners to a Child Psychologist — this reads as a coordinated provincial hiring push, not routine backfill
- 14 of the 20 roles are Full-time, Permanent — the strongest PR-readiness signal on this list
Rural and Francophone Community Immigration
This pilot works the same way — no LMIA, a community recommendation instead — but the designated employers sit in specific rural and Francophone communities across Ontario, Manitoba, and New Brunswick. This is currently the deepest pool of LPN/RPN employers we're tracking.
Prairie Mountain Health — 39 open roles, 100% full-time, across Brandon and Minnedosa, MB (Jul 31–Aug 9)
- Licensed Practical Nurse — Brandon, MB
- Also hiring 12 Health Care Aides (the PSW-equivalent role) plus Family Physicians, a General Surgeon, and an Interventional Gastroenterologist — this employer is recruiting from support staff up to specialists simultaneously
- Every single posting here is full-time — the cleanest FT/PT profile of any employer on this list
Bayshore HealthCare — the newest addition, posted today
- LPN, Full-Time (Hours Guaranteed) — New Brunswick
- Currently the only role we're tracking from this employer under RCIP — worth watching, not yet a broad footprint
North Bay Regional Health Centre — 35 open roles, all in North Bay, ON (Aug 5–10)
- Registered Practical Nurse (CUPE MH-26-339) — North Bay, ON
- Registered Practical Nurse (CUPE CS-26-233) — North Bay, ON
- Also actively hiring Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, and Clinical Nurse Educators — a single hospital running a genuinely broad clinical recruitment drive
- 33 of 35 roles are full-time
Health Sciences North — 13 open roles in Greater Sudbury, ON, posted continuously from June 12 to August 9
- Nursing Graduate Guarantee Opportunities for Registered Practical Nurses
- Runs a formal Nursing Graduate Guarantee stream for both RNs and RPNs — a distinct, standing hiring commitment for new grads, not a one-off posting
- Two months of continuous postings signals sustained, ongoing demand rather than a single hiring cycle
ParaMed Home Health Care — 8 open roles across North Bay and Thunder Bay, ON, all posted the same day (Aug 5)
- Registered Practical Nurse — Thunder Bay, ON
- Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) — North Bay, ON
- Mix of RN and RPN roles in home and visiting care
St. Joseph's Health Centre of Sudbury — 8 open roles in Greater Sudbury, ON
- Registered Practical Nurse (RPN), Complex Continuing Care
- All 8 postings are the identical role, reposted repeatedly between Aug 5 and Aug 10 — a strong signal this is a standing, urgent need rather than a single vacancy
- Listed as Full-time, Permanent
Extendicare — 10 open roles across Greater Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, ON
- Registered Practical Nurse (RPN), Full-Time — Countryside, Greater Sudbury, ON
- Registered Practical Nurse (RPN), Full-Time — York, Greater Sudbury, ON
- Also hiring a Director of Care and an Assistant Director of Care/IPAC in the same locations — leadership and frontline roles opening together, worth noting if you have supervisory experience too
Canadian Mental Health Association — 3 open roles in North Bay, ON
- Registered Practical Nurse (RPN)
- All 3 postings, including the RPN role, are listed as Casual — this one likely won't satisfy RCIP's full-time job offer requirement on its own; confirm directly before treating it as PR-ready
VON Canada — 10 open roles across North Bay, Sturgeon Falls, and Thunder Bay, ON (Jun 12–Jul 23)
- Registered Practical Nurse (RPN), Visiting Nursing — Thunder Bay, ON
- Home and visiting-care focused, all full-time
- This posting window is older than the others on this list — if you're applying, confirm the role is still open before investing time in the application
This List Updates Daily
New postings, expired listings, and employer designation changes all happen faster than any static "best employers" article can track. This page pulls fresh from the same database QuestJobs uses to map every job to its PR pathway — treat it as a live source, not a monthly snapshot.