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Req ID : 196104

Location : Central Zone, Bethune Building - QEII

Department : The NS Health Learning Institute for Health Care Providers

Type of Employment : Permanent   Hourly FT ( 100% ) x 1

NSGEU   Nursing  Position

Posting Closing Date : 13-Feb-25

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.

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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. The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team takes a leadership role in creating a culture of collaboration with a focus on team-based care, evidence-informed practice, and learning and professional development to improve health outcomes for patients, families and communities. Through strong partnerships with the academic sector, regulators, and government, the Interprofessional Practice and Learning team has an integral role in influencing and operationalizing health system priorities.

About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager, The Learning Institute, the Nursing Instructor I / II is responsible through assigned teaching responsibilities, for assisting with the implementation of entry-level and specialty level educational programming in accordance with the Learning Institute’s educational framework and provincial mandate.

This position promotes the advancement of professional practice within the Nova Scotia health care community. The Nursing Instructor I / II has the primary responsibility for facilitating learning according to the prescribed curriculum and works collaboratively with the Nurse Educator and Nursing Instructor IV to provide educational programming for nursing and interprofessional programs using face-to-face, simulated and online delivery methods, as well as at point of care education as a clinical instructor in the practice setting. The Nursing Instructor I / II practices according to the Registered Nurses Act, Nova Scotia College of Nursing, and Standards of Practice of Registered Nurses.

This position will support the Emergency  N ursing Program with a particular focus on blended learning.

Please note this position requires periodic travel to facilities within Nova Scotia. A valid driver’s license and access to transportation is required.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following :

• Bachelor of Nursing / Bachelor of Science of Nursing required
• Active practicing license in good standing with Nova Scotia College of Nurses (NSCN) required
• Certificate course or CNA certification in Emergency   nursing required
• Certificate course in adult education (or equivalency) preferred
• Minimum two (2) years' recent and continuous clinical experience in Emergency   nursing required
• Current experience with classroom, on-line and skill / simulation teaching, including low to high fidelity simulation preferred
• Current experience with coordinating and implementing skill and simulated based teaching and assessment methods preferred
• Previous preceptor experience required
• BLS for Health Care Providers certification required
• Demonstrated recent professional development relevant to maintaining currency in practice and education
• Demonstrated ability to work with interprofessional groups of learners / employees in a variety of educational settings (e.g. classroom, online, lab, practice setting)
• Proficiency with computer skills and applications including Complete Microsoft Suite; internet browsers; Learning Management Systems; Web-based classroom and discussion boards

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours

Permanent, Full-Time (75 hours bi-weekly)

Compensation and Benefits

44.44 - $55.20 hourly

86,660 - $107, 637 annually

57.13 hourly ($111,405 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.

Once You've Applied

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. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and / or usage, prior to accepting the position.

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.