Role and Facility Information
Island Health is hiring a full-time General Duty Nurse to join our nursing team at West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni, BC. As an essential member of the healthcare team, your expertise plays a critical role in delivering safe, compassionate, and patient-centred care every day. Join a team that values your knowledge, recognizes the impact of your work, and invests in your professional growth.
Signing Bonus of up to $20,000
Hiring incentives may be available for select high-demand roles. To help attract and support qualified health care professionals, Island Health participates in Provincial Recruitment and Retention Incentive programs. These incentives apply only to select positions that meet program eligibility requirements, including geographical location and candidate qualifications. Candidates will be informed of eligibility as they progress through the recruitment process.
What You’ll Do
As a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse, you will provide direct nursing care to patients and/or residents in the hospital or the community. Working as part of an interdisciplinary team, you will:
- assess, document, and monitor patient health status, reporting changes and collaborating with the care team, patients, and families,
- develop, implement, and update individualized care plans in partnership with interdisciplinary teams, including discharge planning,
- deliver direct nursing care, patient and family education, and respond to emergent or crisis situations as needed.
What You’ll Need to Apply
- Current registration (or eligibility) with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives as a practicing
- Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse.
- Basic Life Support, Level C.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
- At least two years of nursing experience.
- Post-basic education required for some specialty areas (or equivalent).
What We Offer
A first in Canada: minimum Nurse to Patient Ratios (mNPRs)
Island Health is implementing mNPRs as a transformative staffing initiative that aims to improve the working environment of nurses in order to provide better quality care to our patients.
At Island Health, nursing professionals can build long-term careers supported by competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, a strong pension plan, internal mobility, and opportunities across urban, community, and rural practice settings throughout Vancouver Island.
- Competitive salary: $41.42 - $59.52 per hour plus applicable shift differentials.
- Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and vision.
- Municipal Pension Plan with employer contributions.
- 4 weeks paid vacation (prorated to FTE) plus 13 statutory holidays.
- Continuing education and professional development opportunities.
- Relocation assistance may be available for eligible candidates.
You shouldn’t have to choose between meaningful nursing work and quality of life. Apply today and find more connection and balance with our team.
Island Health offers programs and services on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka’wakw Peoples. As an organization, we are committed to cultural safety and humility and we demonstrate this through our actions to address Indigenous-specific racism, systemic racism and the ongoing impacts of colonialism.
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