Position title
Nurse Practitioner
Description
Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity to change the lives of women and experience working with a committed team of professionals who will play a vital role in transforming the Women’s Emergency Accommodation Centre (WEAC) into a world class shelter offering wrap around clinical support? Are you looking for an opportunity to contribute to your community while shaping the future of WEAC? Welcome to WEAC – celebrating our history and looking to our future. Be a part of herstory, be part of the change, be a part of Bridging Her Home!
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is the primary care provider using advanced decision-making skills in assessment, diagnosis, and care management. As a key member of the multi-disciplinary team and trusted member of the WEAC community, the Nurse Practitioner performs comprehensive assessment, diagnosis (including the ordering and interpretation of tests), intervention (including the prescribing of medications), management, referral, and evaluation of client care across the full continuum of health care services. You will provide leadership for the health support provided at WEAC and actively participate in program development and clinical teaching activities. The ability to understand and incorporate relational approaches, strengths focus, trauma-informed practice, recovery orientation, harm reduction, ways of knowing from an Indigenous worldview is essential for this role.
Responsibilities
Important work you will do at e4c
- You will use a person centered, relational practice, trauma sensitive, and harm reduction framework to create a safe and welcoming environment when the women of WEAC are accessing primary care services.
- Must be willing to become a member of the Primary Care Network as a participating physician in agreement with the Primary Care Network’s Business Plan.
- Engages participants in risk factor and health problem identification, goal setting, and making choices of intervention for disease treatment, prevention, and health promotion.
- You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring that the women receive quality care to meet their individual needs.
- You will be a part of sharing knowledge related to a healthy lifestyle, risk reduction, and preventative self-care.
Qualifications
What you bring to the team
- Successful completion of a recognized Nurse Practitioner Program at a minimum of a Master of Nursing level or equivalent. Active registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA) as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) in the Family/All Ages Stream. Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).
- Demonstrated ability to function effectively both independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to enable working directly with patients and their family members. Demonstrated strong decision making/problem solving abilities. Experience in a wide range of assessment, treatment and therapeutic interventions, health promotion, diagnostic procedures, and follow-up care in the community. Computer literacy skills (i.e. Electronic medical record, Netcare, etc.).
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS). Completion of one or more of the following courses: Emergency Nursing Course, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Trauma Nurse Core Course, or other advanced clinical nursing skills. Training in CTAS scoring, ECG and laboratory interpretation and other diagnostic results.
- Security Clearance
- Experience in caring for diverse populations.
- The NP will be the most-responsible practitioner for individuals & families and carry their own panel
- NPs in Alberta will be authorized under federal legislation for prescribing Controlled Drugs and Substances once the individual NP has successfully met CRNA requirements.
Job Benefits
Schedule
- Full time position 40 hours per week.
- On call rotation as required
- Due to the nature of the work, some weekend work and last-minute notification to attend meetings depending on emergencies or agency demands.
Salary
The salary range for this position is $92,040.00- $ 116,889.00 annually.
Benefits
- Competitive Wage
- Robust Benefits Package
- RRSP Matching
- 3 Weeks Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Time
- Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
Contacts
Please submit your resume and cover letter outlining your qualifications and experience to careers@e4calberta.org.
At WEAC, we believe in the potential of every individual and are committed to creating a supportive environment where they can thrive. Join us in making a difference today!
Hiring organization
Employment Type
Full-time
Job Location
Working Hours
Monday to Friday 830am - 430pm
Date posted
June 21, 2024
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