Job Description

Your Opportunity:Chinook House is an admission/mood and thought disorder unit at CCMHBI. The AHN role for Chinook House offers a chance to grow both your clinical and leadership skills. In close collaboration with the Unit Manager, psychiatrists and multidisciplinary team, your role will involve patient care, communication with families and the interdisciplinary team, and ensuring that quality, patient centered care is being provided. A passion for seniors and their complex needs is essential. Strong medical and psychiatric assessment skills, critical thinking, and adaptability are crucial. Reporting to the Unit Manager the Assistant Head Nurse coordinates the interdisciplinary patient care process in accordance with the objectives and standards of the Seniors Mental Health Program. While the Assistant Head Nurse meets the position and responsibilities of the RN/RPN, it largely provides clinical leadership to interdisciplinary team members in providing patient and family centered care, including mentorship and leadership while forming strong relationships with colleagues, patients and their families. This position has been identified and is anticipated to transition to Recovery Alberta effective September 1, 2024. By applying on this posting, if you are the successful candidate, you will transition to Recovery Alberta. In accordance with the transition letter of understanding with UNA, current employees under the UNA Collective Agreement who accept an employment offer, issued after July 1, 2024, will not have any rights under Article 15: Layoff and Recall.Description:As an Assistant Head Nurse, you will be responsible for staff assignments, patient flow and acting as a role model, clinical resource and advocate for nursing staff. In addition to providing frontline nursing care, as required, you will take a leadership role in the promotion of quality patient care and the implementation of operational priorities. Your in-depth knowledge and skills, advanced judgment and clinical experience, will assist in providing solutions for complex health care issues at all levels with patients, interprofessional teams, administrators and policy makers. You will play a key role in providing safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS.

• Recovery Alberta: Y
• Classification: Assist Head Nurse
• Union: United Nurses of Alberta
• Unit and Program: Seniors Mental Health Program - Chinook House
• Primary Location: Cent. Ctr for MH and Brain Inj
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: At (UNA only)
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 16-SEP-2024
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• Date Available: 26-SEP-2024
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 4
• Shifts per cycle: 19
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $40.52
• Maximum Salary: $53.91
• 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:A minimum of 3 years of progressive nursing leadership experience and 5 years of psychiatric experience in a Seniors Mental Health acute inpatient setting is required. Minimum 3 years of experience developing, implementing and reviewing care plans for seniors with complex mental health and physical comorbidities as they work to discharge to the level of care appropriate to their needs. Good working knowledge of dementia and mood thought disorders, the Mental Health Act, Guardianship and Trustee Act and Protection for Persons in Care Act is required. Preferred Qualifications:Minimum 1 year experience with Connect Care.Please note:All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.Security Screening:A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.Healthy Albertans. Healthy
Communities. Together.We\'re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care every day, all across Alberta.Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it\'s about putting patients\' and families\' experiences, priorities and trust first.We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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