Clinical Nurse Educator - Practice Education Programming

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Req ID: 187632

Location: Central Zone, Bethune Building - QEII

Department: Practice Education Programming, IPPL

Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT ( 100% ) x 2

NSGEU Nursing Position

Posting Closing Date: 27-Oct-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.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

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, Interprofessional Practice and Learning, Central 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 learning and education, leadership and professional practice. The Clinical Nurse Educator exhibits the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors that aligns with the Interprofessional Practice and Learning Framework that supports collaborative person-centered care within Nova Scotia Health (NSH).

The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team uses a framework that is grounded in the theories of adult and person-centered learning, practice development, fundamentals of care and collaborative participatory learning and practice. Utilizing professional standards, current evidence, and best practice guidelines, the CNE fosters a culture of learning to build capacity and support the advancement of professional practice through the implementation of orientation and ongoing education programs that integrate a learner centered approach. The CNE provides advice, consultation, and support to advance practice, and to maintain and develop evidence based standards of care and competency, to optimize patient outcomes within the interprofessional care team.

Please note this position requires periodic travel to facilities within Central 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 a relevant service area 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 with learner support educational initiatives, onboarding new staff, and transition to practice an asset
• Completion of an Adult Education Program an asset or willing to complete
• Previous teaching and learning experience including designing, developing, implementing and evaluating traditional & non-traditional learning solutions preferred
• Recent professional development relevant to maintaining currency in clinical practice & education
• Evidence of application of adult education theory in clinical practice
• Evidence of professional leadership development and/or experience within the last year
• 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

Permanent 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.

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.