Various Senior Nursing Positions

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

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Work environment

Indigenous Services Canada strives to be a trusted partner that respects Indigenous perspectives and supports First Nations, Inuit and Métis in controlling the delivery of high-quality services for healthy, prosperous and thriving communities. With this unique vision, the Department’s work is grounded within two fundamental guiding principles: respect the diversity of Indigenous cultures and see their influence in the way we work; and recognizing that partnerships are at the core of how we do things.

Intent of the process

The immediate intent of this process is to staff positions in the National Capital Region.

Positions may also be staffed in other locations.

A pool of candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions at this group and level with various conditions of employment and various tenures (acting, assignment/secondment, deployment, term and/or indeterminate) within Indigenous Services Canada, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.

Note: Successful placement in a pool does not guarantee an offer of employment.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education:

• Graduation with a degree from a recognized post-secondary institution* with an acceptable specialization in nursing, nursing service administration, nursing education or some other specialty relevant to the position.

*Recognized post-secondary institution: Public or private institution that has been given authority to grant degrees, diplomas, and other credentials by a public or private act of a provincial/territorial legislature or through a government-mandated quality assurance mechanism. For greater certainty, also included are institutions authorized to grant specific academic credentials for specific academic programs.

Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca or Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada (ACESC) at www.canalliance.org.

Degree equivalency

Occupational Certification:

• Eligibility for registration as a registered nurse in a province or territory of Canada

Experience:

All Streams:

• Experience managing health care teams, health services, and/or health programs.
• Experience participating in the development, implementation or evaluation of health programs.

Stream One:

• A minimum of three years of experience as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the area of practice of Home Care

Stream Two:

• A minimum of three years of experience as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the area of practice of Public Health

Stream Three:

• A minimum of three years of experience as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the area of practice of Primary Care (In urgent, emergent, or critical care)

NOTE:
Candidates must clearly demonstrate how they meet the essential education and experience factors listed by answering the screening questions. Candidates should write concrete examples demonstrating how they meet the experience and education required.

When answering screening questions, candidates should:

• Choose examples that illustrate a high degree of complexity and difficulty and have sufficient impact to allow you to illustrate the extent and depth of your experience.
• Include the date or period when the situation occurred, the context, your role and the outcome.
• Separate your role from that of others, if you have talked about an experience within a team

The screening board cannot make any assumptions about your experience and will not contact candidates for additional or potentially missing information.

Abilities

• Ability to provide advice or recommendations to senior management on health issues
• Ability to collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders

Competencies

• Indigenous Cultural Competency
• Communication (Oral)
• Communication (Written)
• Dependability
• Thinking things Through
• Demonstrating Integrity and Respect
• Mobilizing people
• Achieving Results

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

Education :

• Graduation with a Master’s Degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with an acceptable specialization in nursing, nursing service administration, nursing education or some other specialty relevant to the position.

*Recognized post-secondary institution: Public or private institution that has been given authority to grant degrees, diplomas, and other credentials by a public or private act of a provincial/territorial legislature or through a government-mandated quality assurance mechanism. For greater certainty, also included are institutions authorized to grant specific academic credentials for specific academic programs.

Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca or Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada (ACESC) at www.canalliance.org.

Experience:

• Experience in providing health care services to Indigenous people and/or Indigenous communities.
• Experience in recruitment and retention activities of health professionals.
• Experience applying population-based health approaches
• Experience assisting in developing operational frameworks, strategies, or performance indicators for the effective management of nursing services.
• Experience conducting environmental scans to identify, prioritize, and resolve emerging health service delivery concerns and issues.
• Experience in preparing briefing notes

Degree equivalency

Organizational Needs

Indigenous Services Canada is committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve. In support of our strategy to achieve our employment equity goals, selection may be limited to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Women, Indigenous Persons, Visible Minorities and Persons with Disabilities.

Operational Requirements

• Willingness and ability to work overtime on short notice
• Willingness and ability to travel on occasion

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements
Various Language Profiles (English Essential, Bilingual Imperative (BBB/BBB), (CBC/CBC))

Information on language requirements

Conditions of employment

• Security clearance: Reliability status or secret
• Current valid registration as a Registered Nurse and a member in good standing
• Willingness and ability to complete mandatory education/training relevant to the position.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

• Acknowledgement of receipt of applications will not be sent; we will contact candidates when the screening process is completed.

• Communication for this process will be sent via email. Applicants MUST check their e-mail accounts frequently as there may be a deadline for responses. It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required. Candidates who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). Please note that we will have to consider that you are no longer interested in participating in the selection process and that you have withdrawn your candidacy should you not provide us with an up-to-date email address or respond to our communications.

If you need to communicate with us during any stage of this process, please indicate the selection process number ( 23-DIS-NCR-EA-606536) in the subject field of your email.

• Please note that your overall conduct and communications, including email correspondence, throughout the entire process may be used in the assessment of qualifications and competencies.

• Candidates must meet each essential qualification to be appointed to a position, however, a person may be appointed to a position even though he/she does not meet any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements or organizational needs. Meeting these criteria is nonetheless desirable and may be a deciding factor for the staffing of some positions.

• Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements, and organizational needs may be applied at any stage in this selection process (i.e. screening and appointment stage).

• Candidates will be asked to provide proof of their education credentials at the assessment stage of this process.

• Applicants are entitled to participate in the staffing process in the official language of their choice and are required to indicate their preferred official language in their application profile.

• Candidates are required to submit their application by using the online system. If you are unable to apply online, please contact the email address indicated in the "Contact information" section below. Please provide an explanation as to why you are not applying on-line for consideration. (Note: You must state the Selection Process number in the Subject of enquiry)

• Various means of assessment may be used (for example: interview, written exam, reference checks, performance assessments, achievement record), depending on the needs of the hiring manager.

• Candidates are expected to make a reasonable effort to make themselves available for assessments as scheduled. Rescheduling will only permitted for accommodation measures or for other exceptional/extenuating circumstances, to be determined on a case-by-case basis.

• LEAVE/ABSENCES DURING THIS SELECTION PROCESS:

It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify the Departmental contact of any pre-approved leave throughout the duration of the process in order to facilitate scheduling of evaluations. One (1) alternate date will be possible only if requested for the following reasons:

1) Medical reasons with doctor’s certificate
2) Death in your immediate family
3) Confirmation of pre-approved travel plans or training plans (made before the advertisement posting date)
4) Religious reasons or
5) Participation in an assessment for another selection process.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.