Registered Nurse

Opportunity

Responsibilities

• Develop care plans with clients and families, identifying needs, strengths, and health and self-care goals.
• Provide nursing assessments, case coordination, and direct care to short-term and long-term clients.
• Coordinate services and modify care based on client response to interventions, using stewardship in service authorization.
• Teach, counsel, and advocate for patients and families while supporting safe care, health promotion, and maintenance.
• Cover planned and unplanned absences and coordinate quality community-based care.

Required qualifications

• Complete an accredited nursing education program and hold, or be eligible for, an Alberta nursing registration and practice permit.
• Current BCLS-HCP certification is required.
• At least 5 years of nursing experience, including 3 years of recent Home and Community Care nursing experience.
• Level 2 McMaster AHS Case Management education; ability to lift 30 lbs.
• Driver’s license and vehicle required; rural and remote travel is part of the role.
• Intermediate computer skills and strong accountability, systems thinking, communication, organizational, time-management, and interpersonal skills.

Additional experience

• A bachelor’s degree in nursing is ideal.
• Ideal experience includes acute or long-term clients, chronic disease management, case management, client teaching, and interventions such as Home Parenteral Therapy, wound care, or ostomy care.
• Experience supporting vulnerable clients with palliative, mental health, or addictions needs and recent community-based work is ideal.

Employment and schedule

• Temporary position available December 7, 2026, through June 30, 2027; FTE 1.00.
• Shift patterns include days, evenings, and weekends; shifts are 7.75 hours.

Compensation

• Provisional permit holders are paid $40.76–$55.79 per hour; full permit holders receive the applicable Registered Nurse rate.
• Listed minimum and maximum salary rates are $44.56 and $60.98.

Workplace

• High River Home and Community Care supports teams in Okotoks, High River, Nanton, and Claresholm; the role requires rural and remote travel.