Nursing Instructor I/ii - Halifax, Canada - Nova Scotia Health Authority

Nova Scotia Health Authority

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Halifax, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Req ID: 173424

Company:
Nova Scotia Health

Location:
Central
Zone, Bethune Building - QEII

Department:
The NSHealth Learning Institute for Health Care Providers**
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment
(100% FTE) x 1
position(s)****Status: NSGEU
Nursing** Position**
Posting Closing Date: 27-Jan-24

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:

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 Nursing Instructor I/II is responsible through assigned teaching responsibilities, for assisting with the implementation of entry-level and specialty level educational programming in accordance with the Learning Institute's educational framework and provincial mandate.

This position promotes the advancement of professional practice within the Nova Scotia health care community.

The Nursing Instructor I/II has the primary responsibility for facilitating learning according to the prescribed curriculum and works collaboratively with the Nurse Educator and Nursing Instructor IV to provide educational programming for nursing and interprofessional programs using face-to-face, simulated and online delivery methods, as well as at point of care education as a clinical instructor in the practice setting.

The Nursing Instructor I/II practices according to the Registered Nurses Act, Nova Scotia College of Nursing, and Standards of Practice of Registered Nurses.

This position will support the Perioperative 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 an asset
Active practicing license in good standing with Nova Scotia College of Nurses (NSCN) required
Certificate course or CNA certification in perioperative nursing required
Certificate course in adult education (or equivalency) preferred
Minimum two (2) years' recent and continuous clinical experience in perioperative nursing required
Current experience with classroom, online and skill/simulation teaching, including low to high fidelity simulation preferred
Current experience with coordinating and implementing skill and simulated based teaching and assessment methods preferred
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)
Demonstrated ability to develop strong working relationships with key partners
Demonstrated ability to work independently a