Leader, Clinical Nurse Specialist

Fraser Health Authority; Surrey; On-site; CAD 74,610 - 107,259; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits coverage

Competitive compensation package

Job summary

A leading health care provider in Surrey, B.C. is seeking a Temp Part Time Leader, Clinical Nurse Specialist. The successful candidate will lead Clinical Nurse Specialists, enhancing nursing practices and patient outcomes. This role demands a Master's degree in Nursing and significant clinical experience. Join a team dedicated to transforming health care delivery with comprehensive benefits and a competitive salary between CAD $54.16 - $77.86 per hour.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of recent experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist.
• Three years clinical practice and educational experience in a complex health care environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and establish a CNS community of practice.
• Prepare and provide reports to senior leadership on CNS impact.
• Perform Clinical Nurse Specialist duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical expertise

Innovation

Project management

Research competencies

Education

Master’s degree in Nursing

Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse

Job description

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Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $54.16 - $77.86 / hour

Job Summary

We are hiring a Temp Part Time Leader, Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our team in Surrey, B.C. In this role, you'll lead and empower Clinical Nurse Specialists, fostering advanced practice nursing that transforms patient outcomes and health care delivery. By championing recruitment, retention, and career growth, you’ll shape the future of nursing leadership while directly influencing clinical programs with evidence-based strategies. If you’re passionate about elevating nursing practice and making a meaningful impact across diverse health care settings, this leadership role is your next career step.

A career with Fraser Health will offer you the opportunity to be a part of a dedicated team of professionals in a dynamic and rewarding health care environment. We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.

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Detailed Overview

The Leader, Clinical Nurse Specialist provides practice leadership to the Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) that serve throughout Fraser Health, acknowledging that CNSs play a key role consistent with the mission, vision and strategic directions of the programs and organization. CNSs represent a significant asset for the organization to accelerate clinical program innovation and excellence of nursing practice and to foster a compassionate quality practice environment. This role works to optimize and sustain the CNS role across programs, supports Fraser Health leadership in advanced practice nursing and ensures maximum impact of these resources on patient care and health service delivery based on current evidence. The Leader, Clinical Nurse Specialist promotes the recruitment, retention and career development of exceptional nursing leaders through academic and clinical mentorship in alignment with the BC CNS Policy Recommendations. Performs Clinical Nurse Specialist duties.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with key partners, develop and establish a CNS community of practice and networks that enhance the sharing of knowledge, the dissemination of CNS led local, national and international achievements, empower CNSs to work as change agents within their area of specialty, promote research and knowledge translation competencies, and ensure discussions pertain to effective practice development and excellence in nursing practice.
• Develop and sustain a standardized orientation and professional development programs for CNSs to ensure strong preparation and support that enables all CNSs to maximize their impact and professional satisfaction and growth as practice leaders.
• Develop and implement processes and mechanisms that assess practice and recommend and establish standardized indicators to measure outcomes such as clinician-reported outcomes, patient-reported experience/outcomes, cost savings, access to care, and implementation/uptake of innovations. Provide clinical practice feedback and help integrate these assessments in CNS practice.
• Liaise with agencies and organizations that impact CNSs, including other health authorities, to address common issues and identify emerging trends/issues of practice in relation to CNSs.
• Identify and recommend strategies that attract and retain CNSs and enable Fraser Health to maximize the potential of the role.
• Collaborate with CNSs, NPs, allied health leaders, and Learning Strategies and Professional Practice to promote the integration of the CNS role in organization-wide clinical learning and practice priorities.
• Leverage CNS and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) collective expertise and help expand their practices across common domains of practice and support all advanced practice nurses to achieve the highest level of impact; ensure continuity of communication among key partners.
• Prepare and provide reports to senior leadership summarizing the measurement and assessment of CNS impact across programs.
• Provide leadership to identified CNS reports including administrative support, professional development and work direction.
• Perform CNS duties as assigned from their specialty/program/network.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Nursing (other graduate degrees may be considered depending on area of specialty) and current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). A minimum of five (5) years of recent experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, supplemented by three (3) years clinical practice and educational experience in a complex health care environment.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Strong understanding of the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role and the domains of advanced nursing practice: advancement of nursing practice, expert clinical care, research, evaluation and knowledge translation and education, consultation and collaboration.
• Strong understanding of current/emerging health care and nursing practice issues at the local, regional, provincial and national levels.
• Knowledge of health care and educational systems.
• Ability to provide support to a CNS community of practice that contributes to system-level change.
• Ability to be innovative and creative in establishing strategies that will enhance the CNS role.
• Ability to develop regional and individualized curriculum and professional development plans.
• Ability to gather and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information.
• Ability to facilitate discussions that support integrated advanced practice nursing.
• Project management skills.
• Proficiency in the use of personal computers and related technology.
• Knowledge of and ability to utilize research competencies.
• Strong commitment to professional excellence through academic pursuits and professional associations.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region. People – those we care for and those who care for them – are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers. We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

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