Nursing Instructor Iv

**Req ID**:215507**
**Location**:Central** Zone,**Bethune Building - QEII**
**Department**:The NS Health Learning Institute for Health Care Providers**
**Type of Employment**:Casual**Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%**) x**1**
**NSGEU** **Nursing** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:5-Feb-26**

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.

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, The Learning Institute, the Nursing Instructor IV is responsible for planning, executing and evaluating professional development learning experiences for entry level and specialty level programming and assisting the Nurse Educator in curriculum development through the Learning Institute’s Provincial Mandate. This position promotes the advancement of professional nursing practice within the Nova Scotia health care community. The Nursing Instructor IV has the primary responsibility to maintain and deliver educational programming for Registered Nurses, both in classroom and web-based delivery. The Nursing Instructor IV practices according to the Registered Nurses Act, Nova Scotia College of Nursing, and Standards of Practice of Registered Nurses.

This position will support Critical Care Nursing 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 of Nursing required
- Active practicing license in good standing with Nova Scotia College of Nurses (NSCN) required
- Certificate course or CNA certification in Critical Care nursing required
- Certificate course in adult education (or equivalency) preferred
- Minimum two (2) years' recent and continuous clinical experience in Critical Care nursing required
- Current experience with classroom, on-line and skill/simulation teaching, including low to high fidelity simulation required
- Current experience with coordinating and implementing skill and simulated based teaching and assessment methods required
- Previous preceptor experience required
- BLS for Health Care Providers certification required
- Demonstrated recent professional development relevant to maintaining currency in practice and education
- Demonstrated ability to work with interprofessional groups of learners/employees in a variety of educational settings (e.g. classroom, online, lab, practice setting)
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Long assignment full-time position; 75 hours biweekly
- Approximately 24 months

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$50.80 - $60.63 hourly
$99,059 - $118,220 annually
$62.74 hourly ($122,357 annually) with 25 years' nursing experience

**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.