Unit Coordinator Ais 24/7 Inpatient Unit

2 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada IWK Health Centre Full time

**Company** : IWK Health**:
**Req ID**:177103
**Department/Program**:AIS Addictions/Concurrent 24/7, Mental Health And Addictions
**Location**: Halifax

**Type of Employment**:Temporary Hourly FT short-assignment (100% FTE) for 3 months x 1 position(s)
**Start Date**: April 2024
**Union Status**: NSNU Nursing, Nursing Bargaining Unit
**Compensation**: $40.7679**:

- **$51.8628 /hour
**Closing Date**: March 26, 2024 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

**The Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Clinical Manager, Adolescent Intensive Services through the Clinical Leader of Operations, the Unit Coordinator (RN3) of the 24/7 Concurrent Disorders Inpatient Unit is responsible for the supervision and coordination of all nursing and patient-related care and functions on the 24/7 inpatient unit. The Unit Coordinator works to full scope of nursing practice within a collaborative interprofessional team.

The Unit Coordinator ensures that the principles and practices that guide the IWK Health Centre’s Mental Health and Addictions Program such as the mission, vision, values, expected behaviours, leadership philosophy, organizational health, population health, professional standards, and codes of ethics, safety, quality, partnership and interprofessional collaboration are integrated within the Adolescent Intensive Service 24/7 Concurrent Disorders Inpatient Unit.

The Unit Coordinator is responsible and accountable for the following:
- Coordinating the unit function in collaboration with the Clinical Leader of Operation to provide an interprofessional approach to care.
- Identifying, promoting, and collaboratively working toward common interprofessional goals.
- Facilitating change to overcome issues as identified by audits, staff meetings, patients/families, physicians, and other patient related departments, as well in response to changes in practice/policy.
- Taking initiative, identifying opportunities for improvement, and finding innovative ways to change and optimize operations of the unit.
- Providing clinical support to nursing staff on the unit by assisting them with in the assessment, planning, evaluation and documentation of care.
- Collaborating with the Clinical Leader of Operations when corrective action is required.
- Demonstrating and promoting excellence in communication and interpersonal professional relationships with staff, patients, families, other care areas of AIS, and the Mental Health and Addictions Program.
- Facilitating patient care assignment, and assigning breaks.
- Other duties as required.

**Hours of Work**:
Monday-Friday, 0700-1500 (7.5hr shifts), flexibility required.

**Your Qualifications**:

- Baccalaureate degree in Nursing (BN or BScN) required.
- Licensed or eligible for licensure by the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN)
- Three to five years experience in youth mental health and addiction nursing required.
- Successful completion of a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Basic Life Support (BLS) course within the last 12 months required or successful completion of a BLS Renewal Challenge Certificate required.
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention certification required.
- CNA Psychiatric Nursing Mental Health Certification preferred.
- Post graduate certification in Mental Health Nursing (RNPDC) preferred.
- Suicide Risk Assessment and Intervention Training preferred.
- Ability to support/co-facilitate psychoeducational, psycho-therapeutic, life skills and recreation therapy evidence based groups.
- Recent experience in a mental health and addiction inpatient unit preferred; AIS experience an asset.
- Recent demonstrated experience in a Charge Nurse capacity is an asset.
- Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, make informed decisions, set objectives, implement policies/procedures/standards, and to generate creative, innovative, and realistic problem solving actions.
- Knowledge of addictions, substance misuse and harm-reduction approach to treatment preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of, and commitment to, patient and family centred care required.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within an interprofessional team and to work independently required.
- Demonstrated critical thinking skills, in

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