Clinical Leader Operations, PICU

Company: IWK Health

Req ID: 200611 
Department/Program: PICU, Children's Surgical & Critical Care 
Location: Halifax  
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
 Start Date: ASAP
Union Status: NSNU Nursing, Nursing Bargaining Unit
Compensation: $42.6131 - $54.0593 /hour
Closing Date: 13 April 2025 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults, and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers, and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talents and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families, and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

Promoting an anti-racist environment and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care are important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities across Nova Scotia, and more than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who also have a long, deep, and complex history dating back over 400 years. We have the highest percentage of people with disabilities in the country. Nova Scotia has the highest proportions of transgender and non-binary people than any other province or territory in the country. We are active in our work to eliminate discrimination, but we have more work to do to build that trust, acknowledge our biases, and reduce the barriers our diverse communities face. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager of Pediatric Critical Care, the Clinical Leader Operations acts as a resource to interdisciplinary team members by identifying, prioritizing, implementing, and evaluating strategies that support competency development and maintenance of team members. Working in collaboration with the Pediatric Critical Care Team, the Clinical Leader Operations facilitates a learning environment whereby team members are supported to work to their full scope of practice and/or scope of employment. The Clinical Leader Operations has overall responsibility for on-going continuing education and support associated with new and returning staff, new preceptors, practice and equipment changes, quality initiatives, and family-centered care. The Clinical Leader Operations demonstrates excellence in leadership, role-modeling, communication and organizational skills, problem-solving, and decision-making.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Collaborates with ongoing orientation and learning for new and transferring staff, as well as learner placement initiatives. Focus on Bedside preceptorship and mentoring.
• Demonstrates support and commitment to professional development.
• Mentors staff through supporting, teaching, role modeling, and coaching.
• Mentors preceptors in competency development process for new staff.
• Identify clinical issues requiring staff education and work collaboratively with the Pediatric Critical Care Team to address learning needs.
• Role models professional practice and promotes best practice.
• Acts as a clinical resource for staff in patient/family care issues.
• Responsible and accountable for the application of the nursing process in the delivery of family-centered care consistent with the philosophy, objectives, vision, and mission of the IWK Health Centre.

Hours of Work

Monday to Friday 0800-1600 (flexible)

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required. Candidates with commensurate experience and education will be considered.
• Current registration or eligibility for registration with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN) is required.
• Minimum of five (5) years recent paediatric critical care nursing experience required.
• Current certification in basic cardiopulmonary life support (BCLS) is required.
• Current certification in pediatric advanced life support (PALS) is required.
• Current certification in advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS) required or willing to obtain (course will be provided).
• Demonstrated time management, communication (verbal and written), organizational, and interpersonal skills required.
• Demonstrated strong leadership, delegation, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills involving innovation/creativity in solution development required.
• Demonstrated commitment to professional development and practice required.
• Demonstrated expert negotiation and conflict resolution skills required.
• CNCCP preferred.
• Completed continuing education in leadership or team training an asset.
• Sound understanding and commitment to family-centered care.
• Adaptable and flexible in responding to changes in patient/family and departmental needs.
• Demonstrated competencies in the promotion of teamwork/team building through consultation and collaboration.
• Competency in other languages is considered an asset.

Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.

Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing), you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.

This is a Nursing bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. 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.

An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials.

If you are an employee of IWK Health, please apply through the internal careers page to ensure you are flagged as an internal applicant.