Tofield Site Manager; incl. AC & ED

Tofield is a vibrant and friendly rural community with access big-city amenities less than an hour’s drive from Edmonton! The quality of lifestyle in this community is enhanced by an excellent choice of schools for children, extensive health care facilities and an unlimited array of year-round recreational opportunities. Our Tofield site offers an in-depth orientation to ensure competency in this unique working environment. Your interpersonal and communication skills help you build strong relationships with your “work family” and patients alike, while your dedication to ongoing development shows in taking the initiative to sign up for courses and participate in continuous improvement activities. The Tofield Health Centre contains a 16-bed acute care medical/surgical unit and 24/7 Emergency Department.

As the Site Manager, you will be responsible for providing leadership to an interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals dedicated to providing leading care to Albertans. In this leadership position, you will be making key decisions and establishing and contributing to the achievements and goals of the Site, Acute Care and the Emergency Department as well as responsible for developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders, facilitating change management, promoting team development, teamwork and coordinating staffing and clinical work as identified by the Director. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining an effective framework for the operations of patient and resident care services to facilitate the delivery of efficient, effective and safe patient care. These activities may include providing day-to-day direction to the staff working on the unit, daily assignment of patients, rounds, staff scheduling, interdisciplinary rounds, identifying and attempting to resolve patient and staff concerns, and participating in the discharge planning process. In addition, you will be implementing and monitoring your portfolio’s budget while undertaking risk management, quality assurance and utilization activities. Your leadership, direction and organization of the units will be in support of the vision, mission and business plan.

Active registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA). Minimum of five years of nursing experience in rural Acute Care and Emergency departments. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP). Minimum of two years of management experience within a unionized environment.

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