Bradford Skin Clinic and Medical Spa trains Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses and Nurse Practitioners from Barrie and Simcoe County in neuromodulator and dermal filler injection. The clinic is about twenty minutes south of Barrie on Highway 400. Training builds competence; authority to inject comes separately from an authorizing mechanism.
Written and reviewed by Alex Dinovich, NP, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director at Bradford Skin Clinic & Medical Spa.
College of Nurses of Ontario registration 13564840, verifiable on the
public Find a Nurse register.
Last reviewed .
At a glance
The short version.
InvestmentConfirmed when you enquire
FormatIn person, in our Bradford treatment rooms
Who it is forCurrent registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
What the course includes
Included in the course fee
Twenty minutes from Barrie, straight down the 400Which makes coming back for supervised practice a plan rather than an intention.
Taught in a working clinicThe rooms, stock and emergency equipment in daily use.
Small cohorts, hands onYou inject rather than watch.
Taught by a Nurse Practitioner who injects dailyAlex Dinovich, FNP-PHC, CNO registration 13564840.
Complications taught as a main subjectRehearsed, with the emergency kit in the room.
Shadowing afterwards, locallyThe step between a certificate and your first independent client.
Not included: an authorising mechanism. The course gives you competence. Authority is a separate thing, and it comes from an authorised provider.
Where you will be standing
The room, not a slide deck.
You inject here, in a room that is running clinics the rest of the week.Assessment is taught in the room where assessment happens.Cohort size is confirmed in writing before you pay.
What the course gives you
Technique, on real anatomy.
Assessment, consent and documentation.
Competence you can demonstrate.
What you still need
Current registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
An authorising mechanism from an authorised provider.
A directive or a direct order that covers what you actually do.
Competence is not authority.
Ontario issues no injector licence, and no course grants legal authority to inject.
We can author the mechanism. You are not obliged to use us for it.
Taught on real anatomy, in a working treatment room.
Twenty minutes, and why that is the whole point
Most Ontario injector training happens in Toronto. For a nurse in Barrie that means a day of training plus two to three hours of driving, in a city where you will also pay to park.
We are twenty minutes south on Highway 400. Innisfil is ten to fifteen. Alliston is about twenty five across Highway 89 and Highway 88, Orillia around forty, Midland and Penetanguishene around fifty.
The short distance matters for one specific reason, and it is not convenience.
Competence is built in stages, and the later stages need you to come back
A good foundation course teaches technique, anatomy and judgement in a compressed form. What it cannot do is make you an experienced injector in a day.
What follows should be supervised practice, then more of it, then increasing independence. That is the part that quietly does not happen when the training was ninety minutes away: the skill fades, confidence fades faster, and the first independent treatment ends up happening months later with none of the course still fresh.
Twenty minutes changes that arithmetic completely. Shadowing in a working clinic becomes a morning rather than an expedition, and a complications day is something you can add without rearranging your week.
If you are in Simcoe County, plan this as a sequence of short visits rather than one big purchase. It is the main advantage you have over the nurses driving up from the city.
What the courses cover
Anatomy in detail, because it is what lets you handle something unexpected rather than only perform a technique. Product and assessment: what a neuromodulator does, how filler behaves at different depths, how to assess a face rather than fulfil a request, and who to decline. Injecting, hands on, in small cohorts. Complications as a main subject, rehearsed, with the emergency kit in the room rather than described on a slide.
A certificate is evidence of training. Ontario issues no injector licence, and no course grants authority to inject.
Authority comes from an authorizing mechanism, a directive or a direct order, issued by an authorized provider such as a Nurse Practitioner or a physician. It is a separate arrangement. How to become a nurse injector in Ontario sets out the sequence, and directorship for Barrie and Simcoe County nurses covers the arrangement itself, where being local genuinely does change what is possible.
Who teaches
Alex Dinovich, FNP-PHC, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director, College of Nurses of Ontario registration 13564840, with more than eight years in injectables, skin health and laser. She teaches in the rooms she treats in, with the clinic’s own clients and the clinic’s own protocols.
Enquiring
Tell us your designation, your registration status, what you have injected so far, and your shift pattern if you are still working elsewhere. We will tell you which course fits, the next dates and the full fee before you commit.
Call 647-333-6805, or use the registration form on the courses page. Bradford Skin Clinic and Medical Spa, 444 Holland Street West, Unit 2, Bradford, Ontario.
Asked by nurses
Asked and answered.
How far is it from Barrie?
About twenty minutes south on Highway 400 to Exit 64, then east into Bradford. From Innisfil it is ten to fifteen minutes, from Alliston about twenty five across Highway 89 and Highway 88, from Orillia around forty, and from Midland and Penetanguishene around fifty.
Is this the closest injector training to Barrie?
For training taught inside a working aesthetics clinic, we are the nearest we know of. Most Ontario injector courses are run in Toronto or in hotel space, so nurses in Simcoe County are used to travelling south for a day. Twenty minutes in the other direction is the actual offer here.
What does being close let me do that a Toronto course does not?
Come back. Competence is built in stages: a course, then supervised practice, then increasing independence. When the clinic is twenty minutes away, the second and third stages actually happen. When it is ninety minutes away in traffic, they usually do not, and the course becomes the only training you ever get.
I work shifts at Royal Victoria. Can training fit around that?
Tell us your pattern when you enquire and we will tell you which cohort dates work. A lot of nurses moving into aesthetics are still working hospital rotations while they start, and the local advantage is that a day here does not also cost you a day of driving.
Can I train here and then work in Barrie?
Yes. Neither training nor an authorizing mechanism is geographic. You will need current CNO registration, genuine competence, and a directive or direct order from an authorized provider before you practise, wherever in Simcoe County that is.
What are the dates and the fee?
Dates are being scheduled. You will get the exact timetable and the full fee when you enquire, before you commit to anything.
Sources
Where this comes from.
Everything on this page is drawn from the regulator, not from a
competitor's marketing. Read the originals rather than taking our word for any of it.
General information about Ontario regulatory requirements. Not
legal or regulatory advice. Nurses remain accountable to the College of Nurses of Ontario
for their own practice decisions.
Talk to us
Ask before you commit to anything.
Leave four details and Alex will come back to you directly. If what
you need is not something we do, we will say so and point you at whoever does.
Written and reviewed by Alex Dinovich, NP, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director at Bradford Skin Clinic & Medical Spa.
College of Nurses of Ontario registration 13564840, verifiable on the
public Find a Nurse register.
Last reviewed . 
