Sr. Nursing Practice Lead (2024-1292)

Position Details Position Status: Regular Full Time Location: Southport, Quality Assurance BW Hours: 77.50 FTE: 1.00 Shift: Days Shift Times: 0800-1615 Union: Non Union Professional Rate of Pay: $45.45-61.50 PCN: 10Q&P017

Date Competition Closes: December 23, 2024

The Opportunity

Position Summary: The Sr. Nursing Practice Lead- Subacute (NPL) promotes excellence in nursing with advanced knowledge within - clinical care, systems leadership, and advancement of nursing practice, evaluation and research. The NPL will support complex client situations and trends, leading clinical guideline and protocol development and implementation, and identifying opportunities to increase nursing practice based on best evidence. They will lead clinical team consultation while collaborating with appropriate stakeholders both internal and external to Carewest on system change, following through with planning, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives.

Program summary: This role will focus on the Carewest sub-acute sites in the Calgary Zone at the Glenmore Park, Sarcee, and Dr. Vernon Fanning centre that consists of 270 inpatient beds.

Qualifications:

• Completion of an accredited Registered Nurse education program.
• Completion of a Masters in Nursing.
• Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA).
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support – Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).

Experience: Required: •Minimum 3 years of full time clinical experience in the last 5 years in acute care, focusing on geriatrics, orthopedics or rehabilitation. •Demonstrated ability to engage and build collaborative relationships with staff, physicians, patients and families, leaders, learners and external partners and facilitate group processes. •Knowledge of health care organizations and current trends to provide a whole systems approach. •Knowledge of wide range of research design methodologies. •Knowledge of program evaluation approaches and outcomes measurements. •Demonstrated clinical leadership and understanding of nursing practice. •Strong interpersonal verbal and written communication skills. •Demonstrated ability to recognize complex problems and seek solutions. •Teaching skills in small and large group settings utilizing knowledge of adult learning principles. •Computer literacy skills essential e.g. MS Office Suite, Connect Care.

Preferred:

• Project management and change management knowledge and experience an asset.
• Demonstrated ability in planning, implementing and leading change from an evidence-based perspective.
• Central Venous Catheter certification.
• PROSCI Change Management certificate.
• Change management modules.
• Alberta Health Services Improvement Way (AIW) Green Belt certification.
• Specialty Canadian Nursing certification such as: Canadian Gerontological Nursing certificate (GPNC(C)), Canadian Medical-Surgical nursing certificate (CMSN(C)), Canadian Psychiatric and Mental Health (CPMHN(C)), Wound, Ostomy and Continence (WOCC(C)).