Clinical Instructor (Technologies)

Your Opportunity:

Step into a leadership and education role supporting respiratory care across the inpatient wards and Emergency Department at the Stollery Children’s Hospital. As part of the Respiratory Therapy education and leadership team, you will advance clinical practice, build staff competency, and support safe, high quality pediatric respiratory care. The Respiratory Therapy Clinical Instructor (RTCI) supports frontline clinicians through orientation, continuing education, skills development, and real time clinical coaching. This role collaborates closely with Respiratory Therapists, physicians, nursing, and interdisciplinary partners to support readiness for respiratory emergencies, acute deterioration, and evolving best practices. What You’ll Do • Coordinate and deliver unit specific orientation and ongoing education • Support competency development and conduct skills validation and recertifications • Provide bedside coaching in fast paced inpatient and emergency settings • Support advanced respiratory therapies, airway management, and emergency response • Contribute to curriculum development, policy review, and practice evaluation • Support quality improvement, patient safety, and equipment implementation initiatives This role supports evidence based practice, patient safety, and staff confidence while fostering a strong culture of learning. The position involves education delivery, bedside clinical support, computer work, and physical activity in clinical environments. This role may require extended periods of sitting, computer work, standing, walking, bending, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds, as well as cross-coverage of other leadership roles as required.

Description:

As a Clinical Instructor (Technologies), your primary responsibility will be the education and development of staff in our department, as well as other disciplines through orientation and continuing education. You will promote excellence and consistency in best evidence patient care in clinical practice. You will provide direct patient care in order to maintain competency and to understand the educational needs of the department. You will have a role in quality assurance and improvement initiatives, lead and/or participate in research projects, and develop training and educational modules/tools for new equipment/therapy and training requirements.