Original job description
Your Opportunity:
If you love the idea of building relationships with clients and working with a dynamic, supportive team in a rural community, then this position might be just what you are looking for. As the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) covering the community of Tofield and surrounding area, you will have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of people in your community. Reporting to the Care Manager, you will use your strong assessment, organizational, and leadership skills to deliver quality nursing care to clients in the community and to provide leadership and supervision of Health Care Aides. The successful candidate will play a key role on the interdisciplinary team, collaborating in the delivery of holistic, client and family centered 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. The Town of Tofield is situated 68 km east of Edmonton on Highway 14 and is easily commutable from the city of Edmonton if big city living is what you are looking for.
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 Care Primary Location: Tofield Health Centre Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 08-OCT-2026 Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits Date Available: 18-OCT-2026 Temporary End Date: 14-SEP-2027 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 8 Shifts per cycle: 40 Shift Pattern: Days Days Off: As Per Rotation 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:
Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP) through the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Valid Class 5 Driver’s License along with access to a reliable vehicle for business use. Driving in all weather conditions. Must be able to meet the physical demands of the position: This position requires frequent physical demands including walking, bending, lifting, and standing and driving for long periods of time. Transferring patients of varying sizes and degrees of mobility. Transporting supplies and equipment. CCHSS and AHS qualifications are mandatory and documentation that such education requirements are being met must be submitted on a regular basis. Competence in relevant technical nursing skills and a willingness to learn new skills as required. Basic computer skills. Good communication skills and the ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships. Must be able to work in an interdisciplinary team environment as well as work independently to full scope of LPN practice. Demonstrated ongoing responsibility for maintaining own continuing competence through professional development activities. At least 3 years recent Continuing Care/Acute Care and/or Home Care experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Connect Care or computerized charting systems. Experience with supervision of HCAs and assignment of care to the discipline, by providing training for delegations of client specific tasks, as required.
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Responsibilities
Provide nursing care to clients across developmental stages in their homes and the surrounding community, including wound care, palliative care, client teaching, and participation in care planning and outcomes. Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and provide leadership and supervision to Health Care Aides.
Requirements
Requires completion of an accredited practical nursing program, active or eligible Alberta LPN registration, current BCLS-HCP certification, a valid Class 5 driver’s license, and access to a reliable vehicle. Candidates must have at least three years of recent continuing care, acute care, or home care experience, along with relevant nursing skills, communication abilities, and capacity to meet the physical demands of the role.
Skills
- Nursing Assessment
- Community Nursing
- Wound Care
- Palliative Care
- Client Teaching
- Care Planning
- Patient And Family-Centered Care
- Health Care Aide Supervision
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Nursing Diagnosis
- Nursing Interventions
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Communication
- Computer Skills
- Continuing Professional Development
Visa sponsorship
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Keywords
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- LPN
- Home Care
- Community Nursing
- Continuing Care
- Acute Care
- Wound Care
- Palliative Care
- Client Teaching
- Basic Cardiac Life Support
- BCLS-HCP
- Heart And Stroke Foundation
- College Of LPNs And HCAs Of Alberta
- Class 5 Driver’s License
- Reliable Vehicle
- Health Care Aides
- HCA Supervision
- Delegation Of Client-Specific Tasks
- Connect Care
- Computerized Charting
- Interprofessional Health Care Team
- Nursing Process
- Nursing Diagnosis
- Nursing Interventions
- Patient And Family-Centered Care
- Continuing Competence
- Physical Patient Transfers
- Client Assessment
