Graduate Nurse Practitioner 2024-2025

Req ID: #
Various Sites and Community-based Locations throughout Nova Scotia
Various Departments, Services and Programs
Type of Employment: Permanent, Assignments, and Casual Relief Opportunities Available
Union: Nursing

About Nova Scotia Health

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, offering specialized services to clients across Atlantic Canada. We aim for excellence in health, healing, and learning through collaboration, reflected in our hospitals, health centres, and community programs. Our team provides high-quality inpatient and outpatient services, including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join our diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Living and Working in Nova Scotia

We employ professionals across the province, from vibrant cities to quaint towns, offering a balanced lifestyle that allows exploration and participation in the Atlantic lifestyle. Discover why many are choosing to move here.

About the Opportunity

Nova Scotia Health is seeking graduate Nurse Practitioners who will complete their studies within the next 12 months. We are committed to hiring the next generation of nurses, providing challenging and rewarding opportunities in the nursing field.

Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are vital to our healthcare system. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experience levels to join our organization. NPs practice autonomously, diagnosing, ordering and interpreting tests, prescribing medications, and performing procedures within their scope, while collaborating with healthcare professionals and teams.

NPs adhere to NSCN standards and the Code of Ethics, maintaining accountability for their practice and engaging in quality improvement activities.

What We Offer

• Signing Bonus: $10,000 for a two-year return of service, up to $15,000 for three years in rural hard-to-fill units.
• Competitive wages, among the highest entry-level hourly rates in Canada.
• Relocation assistance up to $5000.
• Extensive health and dental benefits.
• Enrollment in the Provincial Pension Plan.
• Shift and weekend premiums, and bonuses for completing a Master’s Degree in Nursing.
• Various shifts, ongoing clinical education, and opportunities for advancement.

Hours and Compensation

Various permanent, temporary assignments, and casual relief roles across Nova Scotia. Shifts may include days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays.

Hourly wage: $58.30 - $68.16, with $70.54 for 25+ years of experience.

Benefits include health, dental, travel, disability, life insurance, and a pension plan.

Next Steps

Thank you for your interest. A recruiter will contact you to discuss your qualifications and opportunities.

Nova Scotia Health values diversity and encourages applications from Indigenous peoples, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and others who self-identify.

Contact

For questions or more information, visit us at studentrecruitment@nshealth.ca.