At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide nursing care and health services to clients in a vibrant community.
- Company: Join a supportive team in Kinngait, Nunavut, focused on community health.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, housing support, and generous allowances for remote work.
- Other info: Experience in cross-cultural environments is a plus; open to diverse applicants.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the health of Inuit communities while advancing your career.
- Qualifications: Graduate level nursing degree and eligibility to register as a Nurse Practitioner.
The predicted salary is between 10 - 10 $ per hour.
Title
Nurse Practitioner – Job Share
Department
Health
- Community
- Kinngait
- Requisition Number
- 734
- Type of Employment
- Job Share – 8 week rotation
- Salary
- $129,550 to $147,024 per year, 37.5 hours/week
- Northern Allowance
- Housing
- Subsidized Staff Housing is Available
- Union Status
- Nunavut Employees Union
- Closing Date
- Open until filled
Key Responsibilities
- Provides professional nursing care and community health services to clients.
- Develops, facilitates, implements and modifies client and family education/teaching based on client needs.
- Conducts health surveillance and preventative activities that may improve the health of the population.
- Provides expert and specialized knowledge of primary health care related to nursing in Nunavut.
Qualifications and Experience
- Graduate Level Advanced Nursing Practice degree, Certificate in Advanced Nursing Practice, or Nurse Practitioner–Primary Health Care Diploma; or completion of a Nurse Practitioner competency challenge process through a regulatory‐licensing body.
- Eligible to register as an NP with the College and Association of Nurses of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (CANNN).
- Preferred two to five years NP experience; new NP graduates with five years recent RN experience in acute care setting are also considered.
- Preferable certifications: Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP), ALARM, STABLE, fetal monitoring, pelvic examination, labour and delivery experience with advanced obstetrical training.
- Preferred Certifications (to be completed within first 12 months)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Trauma Nursing Care Course (TNCC)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
- Fetal monitoring
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Care (ENPC) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- ALARM/ESW/FHS
- Non‐violent Crisis Intervention
- ASIST or Mental Health First Aid
- Assets
- EKG interpretation
- Critical Incident Stress Management
- Pelvic Examination Training
- Cross Cultural Training
- Specialized Nursing Certificates
- Special Requirements
- Highly Sensitive Position – satisfactory Criminal Record Check and clear Vulnerable Sector Check required.
- Official Languages of Nunavut are Inuktut, English and French; ability to communicate in more than one official language is an asset.
- Knowledge of Inuit communities, culture, land, Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Inuktut and experience in a northern cross‐cultural environment are considered assets.
- Applicants may submit their resume in any of the Official Languages of Nunavut.
Benefits
- Tier One allowance: $10 per hour premium for full‐time, permanent, and job share employees in Kinngait, Grise Fiord, Naujaat, Cambridge Bay, Kugaaruk, Taloyoak, Arctic Bay, Clyde River, Sanirajak, Iqaluit, Kimmirut, Qikiqtarjuaq, Resolute Bay.
- Tier Two allowance: $15 per hour premium for same categories in Arviat, Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, Gjoa Haven, Coral Harbour, Igloolik, Kugluktuk, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Rankin Inlet, Sanikiluaq, Whale Cove.
- Prioritization
- Priority will be given to Nunavut Inuit who self-identify as enrolled under the Nunavut Agreement in accordance with the Priority Hiring Policy.
- Government of Nunavut employees in a probationary period must provide written authorization from the deputy head of their department.
The authorization must accompany the application.
- Possession of a criminal record may not disqualify candidates; assessment is based on duties of the position.
This is a requirement for positions requiring a satisfactory criminal record or vulnerable sector check.
Additional Information
The onus is on candidates with foreign post‐secondary credentials to have their credentials assessed through a recognized Canadian education institution.
Failure to do so may result in rejection of their application.
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