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Position Details
Position Status: Temporary Full Time Term Ends May 02, 2027 Location: Southport, Quality Assurance BW Hours: 77.50 FTE: 1.00 Shift: Days Shift Times: [redacted] Union: Non Union Professional PCN: SPTQPSNPL05
Date Competition Closes: October 30, 2026
The Opportunity
Position Summary:
The Sr. Nursing Practice Lead- Mental Health (NPL) promotes excellence in nursing with advanced
knowledge within - clinical care, systems leadership, and advancement of nursing practice, evaluation and research.
The NPL will support complex client situations and trends, leading clinical guideline and protocol development and implementation, and
identifying opportunities to increase nursing practice based on best evidence. They will lead clinical team consultation while
collaborating with appropriate stakeholders both internal and external to Carewest on system change, following through with
planning, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives
Program summary:
This role works with all programs within Carewest including the Geriatric Mental Health program. This program is a short-stay
program for seniors who have primary psychiatric disorders who require assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to be able to
return to the community. This is a voluntary program for those who are struggling with mental health conditions and who need
more time for rehabilitation, improvement in their mental health and overall functioning.
Qualifications:
• Completion of an accredited Registered Nurse education program.
• Completion of a Masters in Nursing.
• Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA).
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).
Experience:
Required:
• Minimum of 3-year fill time clinical experience in the last 5 years in acute care, long term care with mental health focus.
• Knowledge of the Alberta Mental Health Act (MHA), and direct mental health experience
• Demonstrated ability to engage and build collaborative relationships with staff, physicians, patients and families, leaders, learners and external partners and facilitate group processes.
• Knowledge of health care organizations and current trends to provide a whole systems approach.
• Knowledge of wide range of research design methodologies.
• Knowledge of program evaluation approaches and outcomes measurements.
• Demonstrated clinical leadership and understanding of nursing practice.
• Strong interpersonal verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize complex problems and seek solutions.
• Teaching skills in small and large group settings utilizing knowledge of adult learning principles.
• Computer literacy skills essential e.g. MS Office Suite, Connect Care.
Preferred:
• Project management and change management knowledge and experience an asset.
• Demonstrated ability in planning, implementing and leading change from an evidence-based perspective.
• PROSCI Change Management certificate.
• Change management modules.
• Alberta Health Services Improvement Way (AIW) Green Belt certification.
• Specialty Canadian Nursing certification such as: Canadian Gerontological Nursing certificate (GPNC(C)), Canadian Medical-Surgical nursing certificate (CMSN(C)), Canadian Psychiatric and Mental Health (CPMHN(C)), Wound, Ostomy and Continence
(WOCC(C)).
