Clinical Nurse Educator - Medical Surgical
Req ID: 188196
Location: Northern Zone, Colchester East Hants Health Centre
Department: IPPL Staff Development NZ
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100%)
Nursing Position
Posting Closing Date: 6-Nov-24
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.
The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team facilitates and advances person-centered care through evidence-based professional practice and learning strategies and programs that are designed provincially and implemented locally to enhance collaborative learning and practice.
About the Opportunity
Reporting to the Manager, Interprofessional Practice and Learning, Northern Zone, the Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) is responsible (in collaboration with key stakeholders) for the assessment, implementation, planning evaluation and supportive application of existing and new clinical knowledge to support the translation of knowledge to practice. The Clinical Nurse Educator demonstrates competency in practice, program design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation of education, leadership and professional practice. The Clinical Nurse Educator exhibits the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that align with the Interprofessional Practice and Learning Framework that supports collaborative person-centered care within Nova Scotia Health (NSH).
Please note this position requires periodic travel to facilities within Northern Zone. Access to reliable transportation is required.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Science in Nursing required
- Masters in Nursing/Health/Education/Public Health preferred
- Active practicing license in good standing with NSCN required
- Minimum three years full-time clinical nursing experience within last five years in Medical Surgical nursing required
- Relevant CNA/other specialty certification required or willing to complete
- BLS-C (HCP) certification required
- Recent experience as a Clinical Nurse Educator/Nursing Instructor preferred
- Previous experience in education support, onboarding new staff, and transition to practice an asset
- Adult Education Program an asset or willing to complete
- Previous teaching experience which involves designing, implementing and evaluating traditional & non-traditional methods of instruction preferred
- Recent professional development relevant to maintaining currency in clinical practice & education
- Evidence of adult education theory & application and leadership development and/or experience in the last year
- Demonstrated initiative, effective interpersonal skills, communication skills & innovative problem solving
- Skilled in the facilitation of concept-based learning, collaborative learning & practice development
- Physical demands – setting up rooms, walking and standing, movement of educational resources/tools with facilities & across sites
Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
Long Assignment, Full-Time (75 Hours Bi-weekly)
Compensation and Benefits
$49.80 - $59.44 hourly
$97,116 - $115,901 annually
$61.52 hourly ($119,958 annually) with 25 years' nursing experience
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
This is a Nursing bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions.
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.
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