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Assistant Head Nurse
@ Alberta Health Services
Blairmore, Alberta
Overview
Alberta Health Services is hiring an Assistant Head Nurse for its Continuing Care team in Crowsnest Pass. The role leads a multidisciplinary team, assigns staff, manages patient flow and provides frontline nursing care as needed. It is a 1.0 FTE temporary full-time position, days shift, weekends off, paying $46.05 to $63.02 per hour.
Responsibilities:
- Assign staff and manage resident flow
- Act as role model and clinical resource for nursing staff
- Provide frontline nursing care as required
- Implement clinical best practice standards
- Lead quality patient and family-centred care
Requirements summary:
- Accredited nursing education program
- Active or eligible CRNA registration
- Current BCLS-HCP certification
- Over five years of recent nursing experience
- Seniors health or continuing care experience
- IV therapy initiation and management certification
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- 2026-10-31
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Nursing & personal care |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 38.75 |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Hospital or clinic, Care home |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| Licences & certifications | CRNA registration, BCLS-HCP, IV Therapy Initiation and Management certification, MDS RAI 2.0, Dementia Informed Care, Non-Violence Crisis Intervention |
| Education | Professional degree (MD, JD…) (required) |
| Fields of study | Nursing |
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Alberta Health Services
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Healthy Albertans. Healthy Communities. Together.
Full company description
Alberta Health Services (AHS) is proud to be part of Canada’s first and largest provincewide, integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to more than 4.5 million people living in Alberta, as well as occasionally to some residents of other provinces and territories Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life, and from all corners of the world. Our mission is to provide a patient-focused, quality health system that is accessible and sustainable for all Albertans. Our five values – compassion, accountability, respect, excellence and safety – are at the heart of everything that we do.
- LinkedIn followers
- 221,476
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 46,271
- Reported office locations
- 10030 – 107 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta T5J 3E4, CA
- 1620 29 St NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4L7, CA
- Other recorded names
- Alberta Health Services
- Specialties
- Health Support and Services
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Alberta Health Services (AHS) is proud to be part of Canada’s first and largest provincewide, integrated health system, responsible for delivering health services to more than 4.5 million people living in Alberta, as well as occasionally to some residents of other provinces and territories Our skilled and dedicated professionals, support staff and physicians come from numerous disciplines, from all walks of life…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hospitals and Health Care |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Organization type | Nonprofit |
| Year founded | 2008 |
| Specialties | Health Support and Services |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 2,094 |
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Your Opportunity:
Crowsnest Pass is in a rural setting who reports to the Manager of the Crowsnest Pass Continuing Care, the Continuing Care team lead position is responsible and accountable for front-line clinical support, acting as a resource and in a consultative capacity while leading a team of multidisciplinary health care providers. The Assistant Head Nurse is actively involved in resource allocation, resident flow, implementing and maintaining clinical best practice standards, and workforce optimization. The AHS position demands demonstrated ability in change management, strategic and collaborative leadership, and ability to engage a multidisciplinary team in providing safe, quality patient and family-centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS.
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.
- Transition Company: Assisted Living Alberta
- Classification: Assistant Head Nurse
- Union: United Nurses of Alberta
- Unit and Program: Continuing Care
- Primary Location: Crowsnest Pass Health Centre
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Multi-Site: At (UNA only)
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 09-NOV-2026
- Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
- Date Available: 30-NOV-2026
- Temporary End Date: 29-AUG-2027
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 12
- Shifts per cycle: 57
- Shift Pattern: Days
- Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
- Minimum Salary: $46.05
- Maximum Salary: $63.02
- 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:Greater than five years of nursing experience in the last five years. Seniors Health/Continuing Care experience. Intravenous Therapy Initiation and Management certification.
Preferred Qualifications:MDS RAI 2.0. Dementia Informed Care. Non-Violence Crisis Intervention.
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