Critical Care Paramedic Educator - Halifax, Canada - Nova Scotia Health Authority

Nova Scotia Health Authority

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Halifax, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Req ID:174647**
Company: Nova Scotia Health

Location:
Central
Zone,
Bethune Building - QEII

Department:
The NS Health Learning Institute for Health Care Providers**
Type of Employment:Casual Relief
(3%
FTE) x **4
position(s)**
Status:NSGEU
Healthcare
Position

Posting Closing Date:26-Feb-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 directly to the Manager, The Learning Institute for Health Care Providers, Interprofessional Practice and Learning, the Critical Care Paramedic Educator (CCPE) is responsible for the assessment, implementation, planning, and evaluating professional development learning experiences for paramedics participating in the Critical Care Paramedic Program; and assisting the Critical Care Paramedic Program Educator in curriculum development through the Learning Institute's provincial mandate.

The Critical Care Paramedic Educator exhibits the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that align with the Interprofessional Practice and Learning Framework.

This framework is grounded in theories of adult and concept based learning, practice development, fundamentals of care, and collaborative learning and practice.

The Critical Care Paramedic Educator has the primary responsibility to maintain and deliver educational programming for critical care paramedics and interprofessional programs using face-to-face, simulated and web based delivery methods, as well as at point of care education.

About You:

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

Grade 12 plus completion of a recognized Critical Care Paramedic Program required
3 years clinical experience within the past 5 years, relevant to the practice area required
Licensed or eligible for registration with the College of Paramedics of Nova Scotia required
Basic Cardiac Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support required
Training or education in Adult Learning required
Training in curriculum development required
Competency in ED specific skills including ITLS, casting and suturing, procedural sedation required
Recent evidence of leadership development and/or experience.
Working knowledge of program development, implementation, and evaluation.
Evidence of effective interpersonal and communication skills in varied contexts.
Demonstrated initiative and innovative problem solving.
Skilled in the facilitation of concept based learning, collaborative learning and practice development.
Computer skills including, Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and computer documentations systems.
Skills and experience in promoting learning cultures that nurture equity, diversity and inclusivity with a focus on intersectional values, analysis, and actions, clinical humility, and the responsible use of power and privilege.
Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

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