Your Chance: The Palliative Care Consult Service - Assistant Head Nurse, Urban Team - primarily provides consultation and support to patients, families and attending teams for the management of adult patients with complex palliative symptoms and/or issues related to their life limiting illness in the community.

The role also includes opportunities to provide education just in time, as part of a formal palliative education network within the PEOLC portfolio and participates in education development activities through a variety of initiatives including committee work, quality improvement, and others.

The position partners with interdisciplinary primary care, community partners and palliative colleagues to: Strengthen the quality of palliative and end of life care through clinical consultation, education, program development, quality improvement, evaluation and research.

Provide expert palliative/end of life care nursing consultation for/with attending teams, and patients & families receiving care in the community.

Develop expertise in palliative/end of life care with primary care physicians and community partners, to strengthen palliative care competencies and knowledge and skill capacity.

Facilitate advanced practice through education and consultation to the patient, families, groups across the continuum of care.

Collaborate with Palliative colleagues: Clinical Nurse Specialists, Palliative Care Physicians and the inter-professional attending team to address complex care challenges,



identify system deficits and assist in facilitating implementation of solutions including associated QI/ Evaluation activities focused on building a seamless continuum of care, improving access, and enhancing palliative and end of life care of patients across all sites and sectors.

Description: As an Assistant Head Nurse, you will be responsible for staff assignments, patient flow and acting as a role model, clinical resource and advocate for nursing staff.

In addition to providing frontline nursing care, as required, you will take a leadership role in the promotion of quality patient care and the implementation of operational priorities.

Your in-depth knowledge and skills, advanced judgment and clinical experience, will assist in providing solutions for complex health care issues at all levels with patients, interprofessional teams, administrators and policy makers.

You will play a key role in providing safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values.

Required Qualifications: 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: Preferred Qualifications: Master’s Degree (MN) Master’s Degree (MN with palliative focus). CNA - Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Nursing certification CHPCN(C), Completion of the Pallium LEAP Core, Completion of ACP/GCD training, Completion of Serious Illness Conversation Workshop Completion of How to Care, What to Say Workshop

📌 Assistant Head Nurse (Calgary)
🏢 Alberta Health Services
📍 Calgary