Nurse Education Advisor (Primary Care)

Posting details

• Reference number: DIS26J-023756-000534
• Selection process number: 26-DIS-AB-EA-682609
• Who can apply: Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad.
• Level: NU-CHN-04

Duties

The Nurse Education Advisor provides advice, guidance and assistance to nurses working in various First Nation communities. The Nurse Education Advisor will: • Provide advisory/consultative services, professional support and guidance to First Nations nursing professionals

• Conduct monitoring activities (e.g. site visits), verify compliance with standards, assess/evaluate progress and prepare reports

• Participate in the identification of training needs for primary care health professionals; provide training activities • Develop and deliver information sessions for best practice and knowledge • Participate in orientating new hires to community based programs

Intent of the process

📢 The first pull of applications submitted to this inventory will take place on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.

The intent of this process is to staff one position on a temporary basis for approximately one year; supporting and travelling to Fox Lake, Garden River, Chateh, and Jean D’or from Edmonton, Alberta, where our regional office is located.

A pool of qualified or partially assessed candidates may be established and used to staff identical or similar positions at this group and level with various conditions of employment, tenures (acting, assignment/secondment, deployment, term and/or indeterminate) in Alberta Region only.

Important messages

When you apply to this selection process, you are not applying for a specific job, but to an inventory for future vacancies. As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.

📢 Candidates must clearly demonstrate with concrete examples, IN THE PRE-SCREENING QUESTIONS, how they meet the education and experience factors listed in the essential qualifications. Only the screening questionnaire will be used during pre-screening process. We may use resumes as a secondary source to validate the answers to the pre-screening questions. Candidates who fail to provide sufficient information will be eliminated from further consideration.

📢 You must complete the application independently without external help, including unauthorized internet resources or Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools (for example, Copilot, ChatGPT or any other form of AI). You may be asked to explain or elaborate on your answers in a follow-up interview. Any violation may be investigated and result in serious consequences, including the rejection of your application.

• Communication for this process will be sent via email. 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).

• Time sensitive correspondence may be transmitted via e-mail and it will be the candidate's responsibility to ensure they check their e-mail regularly. Failure to respond to communications may result in elimination from this process.

Language requirements

English essential