Nurse Educator - Critical Care Paramedic Program

Nova Scotia Health Authority


Date: 8 hours ago
City: Halifax, NS
Contract type: Full time
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Req ID: 195609

Location: Provincial Zone, Flexible within the Province

Department: IPPL Critical Care Paramedic Program

Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment ( 100% ) x 1

Nursing Bargaining Unit Position: Constituent Union will be determined based on the location of successful applicants

Posting Closing Date: 7-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.

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

The NS Health Learning Institute for Health Care Providers within Interprofessional Practice and Learning (IPP&L) plays a leadership role within the organization in creating a culture of learning with a focus on transition to specialty practice programs, entry-level transition to practice, interprofessional practice education (IPE) and continuing professional practice development. The Learning Institute promotes accountable professional practice in quality practice environments, facilitates patient and family centered care, fosters collaborative team relationships and supports research and evidence-based practice.

Reporting to the Manager, the Learning Institute, the Nurse Educator is responsible for program and curriculum design: assessing, planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating learning and education programs. The Nurse Educator takes a leadership role in facilitating and promoting a culture of excellence in competency-based education to enable successful transition to practice, practice progression, and learner-centred outcomes.

The Nurse Educator, with Nursing Instructors, Clinical Nurse Educators, and Clinical Leaders, plays a significant role in building capacity through competency based educational strategies to support, develop and contribute to the translation of knowledge, skills and abilities while advancing practice. The Nurse Educator has the primary responsibility to design, maintain and deliver educational programming for nursing and interprofessional programs using classroom, simulation, and online/distance learning strategies. The Nurse Educator practices according to the Registered Nurses Act, Nova Scotia College of Nursing, and Standards of Practice of Registered Nurses.

Specific Functional Areas Of Responsibility Include

  • Learning & Education
  • Workforce Planning & Optimization
  • Curriculum Design
  • Interprofessional orientation, transition to practice & learner progression
  • Learning & Education Evaluation

This position will support the Critical Care Paramedic 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 in Nursing required
  • Master’s Degree in Nursing, Education or other Master's Degree in a related discipline required
    • Consideration will be given to applicants currently pursuing a Master's Degree
  • Active practicing license with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing required
  • Minimum three (3) years' full time nursing experience within the last 5 years in Critical Care and/or Emergency Nursing required
  • Previous teaching experience involved designing, implementing and evaluating non-traditional methods of theoretical clinical course instruction of a formal educational program required
  • Certificate course or CNA certification in Critical Care and/or Emergency Nursing required
  • Certificate in Basic Life Support-C required
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) provider is an asset
  • Certificate course in adult education and/or leadership development education or equivalency required
  • Current experience with program and curriculum design and revision of classroom, skill/simulation and on-line teaching; and practical assessment methods required
  • Previous preceptor experience required
  • Demonstrated recent professional development relevant to maintaining currency in practice and education
  • Demonstrated ability to apply learning and educational theories in program design; curriculum development; instructional and delivery methods; and assessment strategies required
  • Proficiency with computer skills & applications including complete Microsoft Suite, internet browsers, Learning Management Systems, Web-based classroom & discussion boards
IN ADDITION TO AN INTERVIEW, A WRITTEN SUBMISSION AND PRESENTATION WILL BE PART OF THE SELECTION PROCESS.

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

$52.46 - $63.36 hourly

$102,302 - $123,555 annually

$65.58 hourly ($127,880 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.

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