Assistant Head Nurse

As the Assistant Head Nurse in Transition Services, you’ll bring your strong assessment skills, clinical judgment, and steady presence into a role that helps shape safer, smoother transitions for clients across the continuing care continuum. You’ll be a trusted resource for Transition Team members, offering guidance during complex assessments, supporting difficult conversations, and ensuring care plans are communicated clearly across programs and partners. Working closely with Emergency, Acute Care, Recovery Alberta, ALA Clinical Operations, and community providers, you’ll help keep client flow moving while strengthening coordinated, person‑centered care. If you’re an experienced RN who thrives in fast‑moving environments, collaborates naturally, and brings demonstrated leadership strengths, this position offers a meaningful and rewarding next step while keeping you closely connected to clinical practice. To support you in joining our team, this position may offer relocation expense reimbursement, pending eligibility and approval.

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 of AHS.

• Classification: Assistant Head Nurse
• Union: United Nurses of Alberta
• Unit and Program: CHR Business Unit
• Primary Location: Wetaskiwin Hospital & Care Ctr
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: At or Out of (UNA only)
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 15-JUN-2026
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• Date Available: 25-JUN-2026
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 12
• Shifts per cycle: 57
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $46.05
• Maximum Salary: $63.02
• Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications

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

7+ years’ experience in good standing with CRNA. Demonstrated ability to provide comprehensive assessments to individuals within their physical and social environments. Skilled in collaborative practices and concurrent care planning. Trained RAI HC and interRAI Contact Assessment. Experience with Patient and Family Center Care (PFCC) and Complex Discharge Management. Excellent verbal and written communication skills required. Able to work independently and with minimal supervision required. Can navigate difficult conversations and is solution focused. Able to cope with high levels of stress, fluctuating priorities, and time sensitive deadlines. Able to multi-task throughout the day between many interruptions, phone calls, emails, and various spreadsheets and databases. Able to tolerate long periods of sitting or standing as well as repetitive movements, lift and carry 10-15lbs regularly, and walk distances up to 3 km per day. Able to respond with hands-on care of patients during assessments (transfers, bariatric clients, bending, twisting, walking, intervening for client safety as required).

Preferred Qualifications

Baccalaureate degree in nursing (RN). Minimum of 5 years experience within the Home and Community Care (Case Management). Experience in CCH (Type A, B, or C) environment. Training in Leadership or Education Facilitation. Training in Specialty Geriatric or Palliative care.