Unit Manager

2 weeks ago


Viking, Canada Alberta Health Services Full time

**Your Opportunity**:
Come join our amazing Central Zone Rural Team as a Unit Manager in Viking. Reporting to the Area Manager/Director, the Unit Manager is a key leadership role responsible for providing guidance, mentorship, and day to day supervision of nursing staff within the department and play a key role in supporting an integrated and holistic approach to patient care, health promotion and health maintenance, while providing safe, quality patient and resident and family centered care. The Unit Manager collaborates with site and medical staff, area leaders, regional programs, direct care providers and external organizations to coordinate and integrate care and services and ensure that patients and residents receive quality care in a safe, competent, and ethical manner. Your role will also include responsibility for the recruitment and performance management of human resources in a unionized environment and responsibility for monitoring and maintaining budget. To be successful in this position, you must have strong communication, problem solver and decision-making skills. Whether you live in Viking or the surrounding area, you will enjoy the rural agricultural setting of the Town of Viking, within Beaver County. Surrounded by grain and cereal crops, the agricultural landscape bursts with energy in the spring, and the vibrant bright colors of harvest in the fall. In the winter months the community bustles with sports and activities. This community, within reach of larger centres, truly is the picture of a rural Alberta town as it continues to grow and thrive.

**Description**:
As the Unit Manager, you will be responsible for providing leadership to an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals dedicated to providing leading care to Albertans. In this leadership position, you will be making key decisions and establishing and contributing to the achievements and goals of the Acute Care, Emergency, Obstetrics and OR/Endoscopy programs as well as responsible for developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders, facilitating change management, promoting team development, teamwork and coordinating staffing and clinical work as identified by the Area Manager/Director. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining an effective framework for the operations of patient and resident care services to facilitate the delivery of efficient, effective, and safe patient and resident care. These activities may include providing day to day direction to the staff working on the unit, daily assignment of patients and residents, rounds, staff scheduling, interdisciplinary rounds, identifying and attempting to resolve patient, resident, and staff concerns, and participating in the discharge planning process. In addition, you will be implementing and monitoring your portfolio’s budget while undertaking risk management, quality assurance and utilization activities. Your leadership, direction and organization of the units will be in support of the vision, mission, and business plan.
- Classification: Unit Manager
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Combination Medical, Surgical
- Primary Location: Viking Health Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 18-AUG-2023
- Date Available: 05-SEP-2023
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 4
- Shifts per cycle: 20
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $37.14
- Maximum Salary: $63.70
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

**Required Qualifications**:
Active registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA). Minimum of five years’ nursing experience in rural Acute Care, Emergency and Obstetrics. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).

**Additional Required Qualifications**:
As required.

**Preferred Qualifications**:
Minimum of two years’ management experience within a unionized environment. Minimum of 2 years of Obstetrics experience (including MORE-OB, NRP certifications).


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