Instructor

**Your Opportunity**:
The Instructor-Clinical Nurse Educator (CNE) is responsible for providing and facilitating education including various site requirements for the interdisciplinary teams at the Strathcona Community Hospital and Northeast Community Health Centre, including Emergency Department and Ambulatory Clinics. In collaboration with Managers, the interprofessional team and the Suburban Hospitals Edmonton Zone, the CNE acts as a resource for unit orientation and continuing education and supports the achievement and maintenance of clinical competencies and standards of practice. The focus of the role is dependent on the vision of the programs, the educational needs and practice requirements of these areas.

**Description**:
As an Instructor, you will be an expert practitioner and key educator in support of both nursing staff and the multi-disciplinary clinical team. You will take a leadership role in the planning, coordination, implementation and evaluation of education for nursing staff including orientation, compulsory and continuing education, and clinical development. You will collaborate with management and internal partners to promote standards of clinical, educational and evidence informed practice. You will play a key role in providing safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS.
- Classification: Instructor
- Union: United Nurses of Alberta
- Unit and Program: Site Administration
- Primary Location: Strathcona Community Hospital
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: At or Out of (UNA only)
- FTE: 0.00
- Posting End Date: 28-AUG-2023
- Employee Class: Casual/Relief
- Date Available: 08-SEP-2023
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: Varies
- Shifts per cycle: Varies
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: Other
- Minimum Salary: $42.91
- Maximum Salary: $57.57
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

**Required Qualifications**:
Completion of an accredited nursing education program. Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP). PLEASE NOTE: This posting is scheduled to close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date but may be filled earlier if a Regular Employee who holds a position within the unit, program, or office expresses their interest in this vacancy by 23:59 MT on the 5th calendar day following the posting date, under LOU #25. In the event that no Regular Employee from this workplace expresses their interest by the deadline, the vacancy shall be filled under the provisions of Article 14: Promotions, Transfers and Vacancies. Please be advised this posting may be used to fill multiple identical vacancies arising as a result of the administration of the Trial of Modified Posting Provisions.

**Additional Required Qualifications**:
Bachelor degree in nursing. Previous teaching experience. Minimum of 5 years acute nursing experience required. Minimum of 3 years Emergency Department nursing experience including Pediatric Care, Trauma, Charge and Triage required. Excellent clinical knowledge of Emergency Department processes and procedures required. Current experience in and excellent knowledge and understanding of Connect Care required. Ambulatory care experience, with demonstrated understanding of clinic processes and procedures. Excellent communication and organizational skills required. Excellent leadership skills required. CTAS certification required. CTAS instructor or willingness to obtain certification required. ACLS provider required, or willingness to obtain. ACLS Instructor certification an asset.

**Preferred Qualifications**:
Provider and/or Instructor and/or willingness to obtain certification in TNCC, PALS, NRP, ENPC, PEARS an asset. Change management skills and education. Emergency Nursing certification an asset. EPICC instructor an asset. Excellent knowledge of ambulatory clinic processes and procedures an asset.