Nurse B - Clinician

Position #: 205967

Expected Start Date: August 06, 2025

Union: SUN

Facility: St. Paul's Hospital

City/Town: Saskatoon

Department: CDM COPD Specialty Services

Type: Full-time regular

FTE: 1

Shift Information: Days

Hours of Work: 14 shifts of 8 hours per 3 weeks

Relief: No

Float: No

Field Hours: No

Salary or Pay Band: Pay Band Nurse B $42.040 to $52.440

Travel Required: Yes

Job Description: Reporting to the manager of the COPD program, the nurse clinician has primary clinical responsibility for the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) provincial program. Utilizes established criteria to assess and plan each client's self-management care needs, providing appropriate intervention to ensure timely access to care. Assesses client needs/concerns through chart review, history taking, physical assessments, and lab data and in consultation with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. Liaises with multidisciplinary team members, hospital departments, and community agencies to advocate for continuity and coordination of care. Provides efficient and effective self-management education/counselling for clients/families/caregivers in all aspects of copd management, care and treatment. Provides continuing health professional education through communication, resource materials, presentations and in-service education. Assists in the development, monitoring and evaluation of programs, protocols, guidelines and clinical standards of practice, in collaboration with the manager, physicians and multidisciplinary team members. Participates in program administration and supports research, program development, planning, quality monitoring and evaluation. Inputs and maintains a demographic and clinical web based database for the COPD program. The nurse clinician will provide care within a holistic and culturally appropriate framework for the population served with an understanding of the health equity and the impact of poverty and risk conditions on health.

Human Resources Exemption: No

Qualifications

• 5 years of clinical experience related to patients with COPD required.
• A minimum of 1 year experience in patient/family/professional education is required.
• A minimum of 1 year experience in program/resource development related to needs assessment planning, program design, implementation and evaluation, teaching/counseling, facilitation skills and leading group activities is required.
• Experience in teaching staff and patients in one to one and group settings.

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)

Other Education and Training

• Basic Life Support Certificate (BLS)
• Respiratory Trec Certificate

Competencies

• Advanced - Decision making skills
• Advanced - Leadership skills
• Advanced - Mediation skills
• Basic - Case management skills
• Advanced - Problem solving skills
• Advanced - Organizational skills
• Basic - Computer skills
• Advanced - Facilitation skills
• Advanced - Communication skills
• Advanced - Counseling skills
• Advanced - Interpersonal skills
• Basic - Time Management Skills

Knowledge and Abilities

• Knowledge in health needs of individuals living with COPD and chronic conditions
• Demonstrated experience & ability to deliver programs within a holistic and culturally appropriate framework for the population served
• Knowledge & understanding of health needs of individuals & families living with COPD & chronic conditions, and of health equity and impact of poverty and risk conditions on health
• Willingness to provide patient care in a variety of settings within health system & patient homes

Other Information

• Registered/eligible with the College of Registered Nurses of Saskatchewan (CRNS)
• Travel required
• For more information on the city of Saskatoon please visit https://www.saskatoon.ca/
• NOTE: This is a Provincial Posting and is open to all SUN members within the bargaining unit as per Articles 27.02 and 27.05 of the SUN Collective Bargaining Agreement. First preference will be given to employees of the SKHA (Saskatoon) and its affiliated
• The COPD Program is ran out of RUH and SPH, this positions primary location will be SPH's. Intermittent travel to RUH will be required.
• Willingness to acquire Respiratory Trec certification within 6 months of start date