Your Opportunity:
An Instructor in Correctional Health Services plays a pivotal role in advancing safe, evidence‑informed, and compassionate nursing practice within a uniquely complex care environment. This role offers the opportunity to support and develop nurses working with populations who experience significant health inequities, high rates of chronic disease, mental illness, and substance use. As an Instructor, you will lead orientation, ongoing clinical education, competency development, and practice support, while fostering trauma‑informed, culturally safe, and recovery‑oriented care. Working closely with interdisciplinary partners and stakeholders, you will help bridge best practice with real‑world clinical challenges, influence quality improvement, and contribute meaningfully to both staff confidence and patient outcomes within Correctional Health.
Description:
As an Instructor, you will be an expert practitioner and key educator in support of both nursing staff and the multi-disciplinary clinical team. You will take a leadership role in the planning, coordination, implementation and evaluation of education for nursing staff including orientation, compulsory and continuing education, and clinical development. You will collaborate with management and internal partners to promote standards of clinical, educational and evidence informed practice. You will play a key role in providing safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of Recovery Alberta.
- Classification: Instructor (2022.75) EDM
- Union: United Nurses of Alberta
- Unit and Program: Remand Centre, Correctional Health Services
- Primary Location: Medicine Hat Remand Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: At (UNA only)
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 25-MAY-2026
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 08-JUN-2026
- Temporary End Date: 08-JAN-2028
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 10
- Shifts per cycle: 50
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $48.76
- Maximum Salary: $66.74
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Completion of an accredited nursing education program. Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).
Additional Required Qualifications:As Required.
Preferred Qualifications:Master's Degree preferred.
