Your Opportunity:
As a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner (PCNP), you’ll make a profound impact on patients and their families, combining your clinical expertise with your passion for teaching, mentoring, and leading. Enhance patient care across diverse settings - community, rural, continuing, and acute care - while supporting both patients and colleagues. Join two other PCNPs in mentoring our team, elevating palliative care standards, and contributing through education, research, and leadership. Enjoy the flexibility of working from a home office in north central Alberta, with travel within the North Zone. Apply today for this meaningful role where your skills, compassion, and adaptability make a lasting difference. The home location of this position is negotiable within central areas of the North Zone. Depending on where you live, you may be eligible for a Remote Retention Allowance in addition to your regular pay. For more information, please visit https://www.albertahealthservices.ca/careers/Page12214.aspx A large part of this position includes virtual work but also requires face to face patient interactions. In future, this position will be expected to participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24/7 virtual NP consultation coverage throughout North Zone.
Description:

As a Nurse Practitioner (NP), you will provide a full range of comprehensive health services to individuals across their lifespan. You will be responsible for integrating clinical skills associated with nursing and medicine to assess, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe treatment, and perform procedures to manage and meet the health needs of patients. Additionally, you will utilize advanced practice nursing competencies related to Clinical Practice, Leadership and Optimizing Health Systems, Education, and Research to increase care quality, promote appropriate use of health services, and inform and influence healthcare systems. PLEASE NOTE: This position is unionized and represented by the Alberta Union of Nurse Practitioners (AUNP). For more information on this union, please contact AUNP: https://www.aunp.ca/

• Acute Care Alberta: N
• Primary Care Alberta: N
• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Nurse Practitioner
• Union: AUNP
• Unit and Program: North Zone Specialty Teams, Palliative Care Team
• Primary Location: Westlock Admin Building
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable

• Acute Care Alberta: N
• Primary Care Alberta: N
• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Nurse Practitioner
• Union: AUNP
• Unit and Program: North Zone Specialty Teams, Palliative Care Team
• Primary Location: Westlock Admin Building
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicabl