Job Description
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.
Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.
About the Opportunity
Reporting to the Health Services Manager, the Registered Nurse (RN) functions as an integral member of the perioperative team within a Collaborative Practice Model, and assumes responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing, directing, supervising and evaluating direct and indirect patient care and evaluation of patient outcomes. As the coordinator of care within the perioperative team, the RN develops the plan of care based on the assessment, with consideration to strengths, risk factors, options, consequences of actions, health promotion, learning, comfort, safety, privacy, dignity and integrity, and ensures the patient care experience is coordinated and integrated within an interdisciplinary care model, both within acute care and across the continuum of care.
The RN assigns care responsibilities and provides guidance to Licensed Practical Nurses, if applicable according to their scope of practice, and assigns responsibilities to unregulated healthcare team members according to their scope of employment. Through the application of clinical knowledge, critical thinking and clinical judgment, the RN provides safe, competent, compassionate, ethical care and maintains professional autonomy as supported by the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN) Standards of Practice and the Operating Room Nurses Association of Canada. The successful candidate may be responsible to relieve in the Shift Supervisor position as required.
The RN exhibits sound professional judgment and initiative while working within the Mission, Vision, Strategic Directions, Access \& Flow procedures and Clinical Discharge Management practices and incorporates into daily practice the Core Competencies and Values of the organization: Excellence, Integrity, Respect, Accountability and Leadership.
The successful applicant must have the ability to respond within 30 minutes to on-call requirements at the South Shore Regional Hospital.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Registered or eligible for registration with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN)
- Minimum two (2) years' related experience required
- First consideration will be given to those who have OR experience and/or completion of Perioperative Nursing Program
- In the absence of candidates who meet the above qualifications, consideration may be given to those willing to enroll in the Perioperative Nursing Program within one year
- Completion of Critical Care Nursing Program preferred
- Ability to wear lead for long periods of time
- General computer proficiency
- Demonstrated communication and conflict resolution skills
- Motivated with a strong customer service orientation building solid health care client/partner relationships
- Demonstrated judgment and decision-making skills
- Demonstrated collaboration and teamwork skills
- Demonstrated planning, organization and time management skills
- Commitment to continuous improvement and innovation
- Demonstrated leadership abilities
- Commitment to promoting a culture which supports safety, ethical practice and organizational health
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
- Long assignment, full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
- Approximately 18 months
- The successful applicant must have the ability to respond within 30 minutes to on-call requirements at the South Shore Regional Hospital
Compensation and Benefits
$40.55 - $49.99 hourly
$51.74 hourly with 25 years' of nursing experience
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
This is a Nursing bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.
Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.