Clinical Nurse Educator - Yellowknife Region

Clinical Nurse Educator - Yellowknife Region

Department : Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority

The Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (NTHSSA) offers challenging and exciting careers in health and social services delivery and administration in Canada’s North. The Territorial Authority has service locations in communities across the territory and a staff of more than 1,600 serving over 43,000 residents of the NWT and 5,900 residents of the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. Challenging work, welcoming communities, and expanded opportunities are some of the benefits offered to employees of the NTHSSA.

Job Information

As the Clinical Nurse Educator - Yellowknife Region, you will be responsible for providing nursing and medical staff with a clinical education program that ensures continuing competency amongst Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authorities (NTHSSA) healthcare professionals in the Yellowknife Region and Corrections. You will be a subject matter expert on the provision of clinical education to nurses, practitioners, and health care professionals. There is a significant shift to approaching clinical education with a proactive lens. This requires you to consider current policy, procedure, and system impacts while ensuring a forward look for future opportunities for educating clinical staff across the NWT. You will plan, design, deliver, and evaluate clinical education programs for healthcare professional improvements to enhance the quality of client care patients receive in the Northwest Territories and ensure the standards for care outlined by Accreditation Canada are met.

You will attain / renew instructor's certificates for mandatory certifications provided by nationally recognized organizations. You will coordinate activities and assist with delivering mandatory and non-mandatory clinical educational programs to nurses, practitioners, and health care aides, while applying project management methodology including planning, communication, monitoring, and program evaluation techniques to ensure that programs are conducted efficiently and effectively.

Typically, the above qualifications would be attained by :

• Completion of a bachelor's degree in nursing.
• A minimum of three (3) years work-related experience in an acute care health care setting, including a minimum of two (2) years of experience providing clinical education.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

GNWT Inquiries

Inquiries Only :

Department of Finance

Government of the Northwest Territories

YELLOWKNIFE CENTRE 5TH FLOOR

BOX 1320 YELLOWKNIFE NT X1A 2L9

Tel (867) 767-9154 Extension 14106

Fax (867) 873-0445

[email protected]

Note : If you do not receive electronic notification confirming receipt of your application, please follow up via telephone.

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