Original job description
Your Opportunity:
You will work with a dynamic, supportive team and will have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people in your community. Reporting to the Home Care Manager, you will utilize your strong assessment, organizational, and leadership skills to provide leadership and supervision of Health Care Aides and deliver quality nursing care to clients in the community. The successful candidate will play a key role on the interdisciplinary team, collaborating in the delivery of holistic, client and family centre care. Your role will require you to work independently in client homes, lift and carry medical bags and be comfortable working in all weather conditions. In this role, you will utilize your strong oral and written communication and deliver quality nursing care to clients in all developmental stages in the community. Utilizing your experience in wound care, palliative care and client teaching, you will take a collaborative approach to meeting health goals, contribute to the nursing diagnosis, and participate in nursing interventions and outcomes.
Description:
As a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), you are part of an interprofessional health care team, utilizing nursing processes, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills. You will be guided by your education, experience, and demonstrated skill level, in alignment with applicable legislation, standards of practice, policies, and procedures. You will play a key role in providing safe, high quality, patient and family centred care while reflecting the shared vision and values of the organization.
Transition Company: Assisted Living Alberta Classification: Licensed Practical Nurse Union: AUPE AUX Unit and Program: Home & Community Care Primary Location: Drumheller Community Hlth Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.00 Posting End Date: 05-OCT-2026 Employee Class: Casual/Relief Date Available: 15-OCT-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: Varies Shifts per cycle: Varies Shift Pattern: Days, Weekends Days Off: Other Minimum Salary: $33.16 Maximum Salary: $43.42 Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required
Required Qualifications:
Completion of an accredited practical nurse education program. Active or eligible for registration and a practice permit as a Licensed Practical Nurse with the College of LPNs and HCAs of Alberta (CLHA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).
Additional Required Qualifications:
As required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Home Care experience preferred. Experience with Connect Care for Home Care, wound care, VAC therapy, HPT, CVAD, palliative care will be considered asset.
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Responsibilities
Provide nursing care to clients in the community, including wound care, palliative care, client teaching, and participation in nursing assessments, interventions, and outcomes. Lead and supervise Health Care Aides and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to support client and family health goals.
Requirements
Applicants must complete an accredited practical nurse education program, hold or be eligible for an active Licensed Practical Nurse practice permit with the College of LPNs and HCAs of Alberta, and have current Basic Cardiac Life Support for Health Care Providers. Home Care experience is preferred; experience with Connect Care for Home Care, wound care, VAC therapy, HPT, CVAD, and palliative care is considered an asset.
Skills
- Nursing Assessment
- Organizational Skills
- Leadership
- Supervision
- Community Nursing
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Oral Communication
- Written Communication
- Wound Care
- Palliative Care
- Client Teaching
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Patient- and Family-Centred Care
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Healthcare
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- Home Care
- Community Health Care
- Health Care Aides
- Nursing Assessment
- Nursing Diagnosis
- Nursing Interventions
- Wound Care
- Palliative Care
- Client Teaching
- Connect Care for Home Care
- VAC Therapy
- HPT
- CVAD
- Basic Cardiac Life Support
- BCLS-HCP
- Interprofessional Health Care Team
- Patient- and Family-Centred Care
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- College of LPNs and HCAs of Alberta
- CLHA
