Providence Health Care

RN-RPN Clinical Mentor Long Term Care & Mental Health

ID 2025-56214
Job Category Advanced Nursing
Position Number
00024479
Base Site
St Paul's Hospital
Work Area
Professional Practice - SPH MH Clinical Mentor
City
Vancouver
Work Model
Onsite
Status
Temporary Part-Time
End Date
8/17/2026
FTE
0.74
Salary Grade
L4
Number of Vacancies
1
Days Off
Rotating
Post Date
4 days ago(5/12/2025 10:47 PM)

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $49.20/Hr. - CAD $63.47/Hr.

Summary

The RN-RPN Clinical Mentor, LTC and/or Mental Health role functions as an experienced clinical mentor, resource, and champion in the delivery of excellent client care to nurses and other team members. Working in conjunction with nurse educators, provides rapid elbow-to-elbow clinical mentorship and practice support for nursing staff. Utilizes experience and clinical skills to function as a clinical resource to formally advise other nursing staff in nursing practice, provides clinical instruction and supports staff training and development. Takes on a leadership role in performing functions such as mentoring staff to support skills development, and supporting clinical practice initiatives.

What You Bring

Education, Training, and Experience:

  • Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives.
  • Three (3) years of relevant clinical nursing practice experience in the designated practice area including experience mentoring nursing staff as well as leadership training or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
  • Valid BC Driver’s License and access to personal vehicle may be required.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Demonstrated ability to provide clinical mentorship and clinical practice support.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of nursing theory and practice within a client/family centered model of care.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide consultation, direction and leadership.
  • Demonstrated ability to teach, demonstrate, facilitate, mentor and coach.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning principles.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and in collaboration with others.
  • Knowledge of relevant clinical practice standards/guidelines and care pathways.
  • Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role in client/patient care.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively plan, organize and prioritize work.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate in writing and verbally on a one to one basis and/or group setting.
  • Demonstrated ability to guide and/or deal with others in resolution of conflict issues.
  • Demonstrated ability to use critical thinking skills in the approach to patient/client/resident care.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead change and support staff through transition.
  • Demonstrated skill in the application of techniques appropriate to the assessment and treatment of designated client population utilizing best available evidence informed practice.
  • Demonstrated ability to promote a supportive, creative learning environment and engage in continuous quality improvement.
  • Demonstrated skill in CPR techniques.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate a computerized client/patient care information system as well as applicable word processing, spreadsheet and database software applications.

What We Offer

  • State-of-the-art facilities:  The new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will be the most innovative approach to the delivery of integrated care in B.C. and Canada, designed to appropriately address the future health needs of patients, families and our communities. From hospital care to primary and community health solutions, the new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will continue to lead innovations in care, research, and teaching. The new St. Paul’s Hospital is expected to open in 2027.
  • A competitive salary: $49.20 per hour to $63.47 per hour.
  • Inclusive culture: We respect the diversity, dignity and independence of all person. We value the cultural richness that our diverse workforce brings to the care of our equally diverse population of patients and residents.

Your Day to Day:

  • Collaborates with inter-professional team leaders to establish priorities for nurse and team learning. 
  • Facilitates staff learning and development by role modeling best practice nursing skills and related competencies. Promotes skill development and clinical decision making, answering questions related to client care and assisting with problem-solving. Observes staff as they are performing client care, intervening as necessary to demonstrate appropriate provision of care. Provides feedback to ensure care is provided according to program standards, standards of practice and clinical practice guidelines.
  • Provides clinical guidance, support and on the job learning experiences for nurses in the application of nursing processes and practice standards; observes and evaluates clinical practice to identify training and development opportunities.
  • Collaborates with and supports clinical education by contributing to the determination of skill development priorities for staff. Supports preceptors/preceptees and mentors/mentees using teaching and learning principles as required.
  • Role models care that is reflective of reconciliation, cultural safety, trauma informed practice and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) principles.
  • Demonstrates knowledge, skills, and experience, and provides continuous mentoring and coaching to facilitate performance improvement. Provides feedback and assists nursing staff with critical thinking when clients/patients experience variances to clinical guidelines/pathways. Discusses clients/patients problems and needs; plans and prioritizes nursing interventions, implements and evaluates interventions.
  • Provides leadership in continuous quality improvement activities by utilizing evidence informed research to promote client/patient care based on best practice.
  • Ensures a safe and healthy workplace for clients/patients/families and staff through methods such as effective promotion and monitoring of safe work practices and enforcement of health and safety requirements. Reports unsafe situations; investigates and takes corrective action and/or notifies appropriate personnel.

Advance Your Career at Providence Health Care!We acknowledge that Providence Health Care & the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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