Your Opportunity:
Description:
Reporting to the Patient Care Manager - Cardiac Sciences, the Unit Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for Unit 22 Inpatient Cardiology and the Coronary Care Unit (CCU). The Unit Manager is accountable for delivering safe, patient- and family-centered, evidence-informed care while supporting excellence across acute cardiac services. As a key member of the Cardiac Sciences leadership team, this role leads multidisciplinary staff in a dynamic, high-acuity environment, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include oversight of daily operations, staffing, scheduling, workforce planning, performance management, quality improvement, patient safety, and resource stewardship. The Unit Manager works closely with physicians, allied health professionals, and operational partners to optimize patient flow, capacity management, telemetry utilization, and timely transitions of care across the cardiac program. The role supports critical care readiness within the CCU, promotes professional development, and ensures care aligns with current evidence and best practice. Using data to inform decision-making, the Unit Manager leads initiatives that improve clinical outcomes, patient experience, operational performance, and financial sustainability. The successful candidate builds strong partnerships across Cardiac Sciences and the organization while fostering an inclusive, respectful, and psychologically safe workplace that supports staff engagement and exceptional patient care.
- Classification: Manager
- Union: Exempt
- Unit and Program: Unit 22, Inpt. Cardiology & CCU
- Primary Location: Red Deer Regional Hospital
- Location Details: As Per Location
- Employee Class: Regular Full Time
- FTE: 1.00
- Posting End Date: 04-AUG-2026
- Date Available: 31-AUG-2026
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 4
- Shifts per cycle: 20
- Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $41.16
- Maximum Salary: $70.58
- Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Current registration and practice permit in good standing with the applicable professional regulatory body is required. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required. A minimum of three (3) years progressively responsible leadership experience in healthcare, ambulatory care, or a related clinical setting is required. Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams, managing complex operations, and supporting quality, safety, and patient experience initiatives within a healthcare environment is essential. The successful candidate must possess strong knowledge of family-centered care principles, quality improvement methodologies, change management practices, and healthcare system operations. Experience working with electronic medical records, digital health technologies, workforce management systems, and ambulatory scheduling processes is required. Experience supporting research, innovation, and evidence-based practice initiatives is considered an asset.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Strong skills in coaching, mentoring, conflict resolution, and employee development. Ability to effectively manage competing priorities while maintaining a focus on quality, safety, patient experience, and staff wellbeing. Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder engagement skills. Demonstrated success leading change initiatives, implementation projects, and quality improvement activities. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with experience using data and performance metrics to drive decision-making and operational improvements.
Preferred Qualifications:
As Required.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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We’re passionate about what we do. Our team of skilled and dedicated health care professionals, support staff, and physicians promote wellness and provide health care all across Alberta.
Everything we do at AHS reflects a patient and family centred approach; it’s about putting patients’ and families’ experiences, priorities and trust first.
We are an equal opportunity employer. AHS values the diversity of the people and communities we serve and is committed to attracting, engaging and developing a diverse and inclusive workforce.
