Assistant Head Nurse - Notifiable Disease and Outbreak

at  Alberta Health Services

Your Opportunity:
Join Our Notifiable Disease and Outbreak Response Team and be part of a dynamic diverse provincial team supporting the routine notifiable disease and seasonal respiratory outbreak response in Alberta. This is an opportunity to contribute to Albertans’ health and safety. You will work in a virtual team environment. No matter what your role, working with us is about making a meaningful difference. Under the direction of the Associate Managers, Notifiable Disease, Outbreak and Provincial Notifiable Disease Clinical Support and Emerging Issues and under the authority of the Medical Officer of Health, the Assistant Head Nurse - Notifiable Disease and Outbreak Team provides leadership and guidance to a province-wide team of multidisciplinary staff that conduct public health investigation and follow up for prevention, management and control of routine notifiable diseases and outbreaks of COVID-19 and seasonal respiratory pathogens in a variety of settings. As a key member of the in-scope leadership team, this position will apply expertise to assist at the zone and provincial level in developing, standardizing, and monitoring routine notifiable diseases and COVID-19 and respiratory outbreak response strategies, governance, service planning and delivery across Alberta. Be advised this posting may be used to fill multiple identical vacancies arising from the administration of the Trial of Modified Posting Provisions.
Description:

As an Assistant Head Nurse, you will be responsible for staff assignments, patient flow and acting as a role model, clinical resource and advocate for nursing staff. In addition to providing frontline nursing care, as required, you will take a leadership role in the promotion of quality patient care and the implementation of operational priorities. Your in-depth knowledge and skills, advanced judgment and clinical experience, will assist in providing solutions for complex health care issues at all levels with patients, interprofessional teams, administrators and policy makers. You will play a key role in providing safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS.

• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Assist Head Nurse
• Union: United Nurses of Alberta
• Unit and Program: Communicable Disease Control, Notifiable Disease and Outbreak
• Primary Location: Seventh Street Plaza
• Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
• Multi-Site: At or Out of (UNA only)

• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Assist Head Nurse
• Union: United Nurses of Alberta
• Unit and Program: Communicable Disease Control, Notifiable Disease and Outbreak
• Primary Location: Seventh Street Plaza
• Location Details: Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
• Multi-Site: At or Out of (UNA only