Job Description

Your Opportunity:

Challenge yourself in Corrections Health! Our provincial corrections health teams form an interdisciplinary practice in this unique and challenging clinical setting.

Description:

PLEASE NOTE: The Alberta Union of Nurse Practitioners (AUNP) was certified by the Alberta Labour Relations Board on December 20, 2021, as the bargaining agent for all employees of Alberta Health Services (AHS) who are nurse practitioners performing advanced nursing care or nursing instruction. Reporting to the Corrections Health Services Manager, the Nurse Practitioner\'s role is an important part of our clinical team within the 10 Provincial Corrections sites. Our population presents with dynamic and complex needs for the provision of care within custody and criminal justice system. The primary focus of the NP role is on diagnosing and managing common and complex health conditions, promoting health and preventing illness/injury, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing pharmaceuticals, other therapies, and performing procedures, interventions and/or treatments. While working within our Calgary Corrections sites, you will also provide virtual support to our other correctional centres throughout the province.

• Classification: Nurse Practitioner
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: Corrections Health Services
• Primary Location: Calgary Corrections Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Employee Class: Regular Part Time
• FTE: 0.80
• Posting End Date: 27-SEP-2023
• Date Available: 23-OCT-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 10
• Shifts per cycle: 40
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Other
• Minimum Salary: $52.41
• Maximum Salary: $63.70
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Successful completion of an approved Nurse Practitioner program at a minimum of a Master of Nursing level or equivalent. Registration with CRNA as a Nurse Practitioner. Recent clinical experience in acute or primary care settings.
Additional Required Qualifications:

Additional training and other relevant advanced practice skills required (TNCC, suturing, ECG interpretation, diagnostic imaging). Successful candidate must be willing and able to practice within their full scope as an NP in an inter-disciplinary team environment utilizing a harm reduction and trauma informed care approach. Must be able to perform to the physical requirements of the position.
Preferred Qualifications:

Preference given for those working across the life span and in a primary or acute care setting.

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.

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