Nurse Practitioner

Your Opportunity:

Challenge yourself in Corrections Health. Our close-knit clinical team is committed to collaborative, patient-centred care within one of Alberta's most unique and dynamic healthcare settings. Reporting to the Corrections Health Services Manager, the Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a key member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team at the Peace River Corrections Health Unit. This is not a traditional primary care position. The successful candidate will provide comprehensive primary, urgent, and episodic care to an adult population with complex and often concurrent physical health, mental health, addiction, and social needs. The NP practices to full scope, utilizing advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, prescribing, treatment, and consultation skills to deliver evidence-informed care within a secure correctional environment. The patient population presents with diverse and challenging healthcare needs, including chronic disease management, communicable diseases, substance use disorders, withdrawal management, mental health concerns, acute illness and injury, and care coordination across multiple healthcare and community partners. Success in this role requires strong clinical judgment, adaptability, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Working collaboratively with physicians, nursing staff, mental health professionals, allied health providers, community agencies, and correctional services staff, the NP contributes to high-quality care through clinical practice, leadership, education, consultation, quality improvement, and health system optimization. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the health outcomes of a vulnerable and underserved population while practicing in a challenging, rewarding, and professionally enriching environment.

Description:

As a Nurse Practitioner (NP), you will provide a full range of comprehensive health services to individuals across their lifespan. You will be responsible for integrating clinical skills associated with nursing and medicine to assess, diagnose, order, and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe treatment, and perform procedures to manage and meet the health needs of patients. Additionally, you will utilize advanced practice nursing competencies related to Clinical Practice, Leadership and Optimizing Health Systems, Education, and Research to increase care quality, promote appropriate use of health services, and inform and influence healthcare systems. PLEASE NOTE: This position is unionized and represented by the Alberta Union of Nurse Practitioners (AUNP). For more information on this union, please contact AUNP: https://www.aunp.ca/

• Classification:
Nurse Practitioner
• Union:
Nurse Practitioners
• Unit and Program:
Peace River Corrections Health
• Primary Location:
Peace River Correctional Centr
• Location Details:
As Per Location
• Multi-Site:
Not Applicable
• FTE:
0.00
• Posting End Date:
16-NOV-2026
• Employee Class:
Casual/Relief
• Date Available:
26-NOV-2026
• Hours per Shift:
7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks:
Varies
• Shifts per cycle:
Varies
• Shift Pattern:
Days
• Days Off:
Other
• Minimum Salary:
$68.56
• Maximum Salary:
$80.20
• Vehicle Requirement:
Not Applicable

Successful completion of an approved Nurse Practitioner program, with a minimum of a Master's degree. Active registration with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA) on the Nurse Practitioner Registrar, including Provisional Graduate Nurse Practitioner licensure. Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).

Demonstrated experience independently assessing, diagnosing, prescribing, and managing complex patients with co-occurring medical, mental health, and substance use disorders. Experience managing acute and chronic disease, withdrawal syndromes, communicable diseases, and urgent or emergent clinical presentations. Demonstrated ability to perform comprehensive assessments, develop differential diagnoses, and implement complex treatment plans with a high degree of autonomy and advanced clinical judgment. Strong working knowledge of trauma-informed care, harm reduction principles, recovery-oriented practice, and care of vulnerable, marginalized, or underserved populations. Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams, community partners, and non-healthcare stakeholders in a dynamic and secure environment. Experience providing clinical consultation, care coordination, and evidence-informed recommendations to support patient outcomes and continuity of care. Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing clinical demands, manage risk, respond effectively to changing patient needs, and maintain professional effectiveness in a fast-paced environment.

Correctional healthcare experience strongly preferred. Recent experience in addiction medicine, emergency, urgent care, primary care, internal medicine, hospital medicine, or forensic mental health. Experience with opioid agonist treatment, alcohol and opioid withdrawal management, suicide risk assessment, and management of communicable diseases. Experience leading quality improvement initiatives, clinical education, or evidence-informed practice change. Connect Care experience is an asset.