Location:Vancouver, British Columbia (In-person)
Designation(s): Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Job summary
The School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia – Vancouver campus invites applications for up to three non-tenure track faculty positions at the rank of Lecturer. These positions will be between 0.60 and 1.0 FTE The initial appointment will be for a one-year term with the possibility of reappointment subject to demonstrated excellence in teaching. The position is also expected to engage in clinical supervision and service contributions to advance collaborative health education, practice or quality improvement. The successful applicant will contribute to the assessment and evaluation of learners in the clinical setting of the Gateway Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic, working with students from nursing and other health professional programs. The incumbent will engage in clinical teaching, and possibly some lecturing through a variety of instructional methods, such as the occasional guest speaker or workshop facilitator. This role will require you to work on-site at the Gateway Clinic alongside an interdisciplinary team of health professionals. The anticipated start date is May 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The School of Nursing at UBC is the oldest university-based nursing program in Canada. We have an international reputation for excellence in research and scholarship, and we value health equity, social justice, and community engagement. We offer a full range of innovative programs, including an intensive upper-division BSN, MN-NP, MSN, MHLP, and PhD degrees. UBC’s Vancouver campus is situated at the tip of Point Grey on the unceded lands of the Musqueam people, surrounded by forests, oceans, and mountains. Vancouver is consistently ranked as one of the most diverse cities in Canada, and one of the most livable cities in the world. UBC seeks to recruit and retain a workforce that is representative of Vancouver's diversity, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.
UBC Health is in the process of establishing a Centre for Innovation in Collaborative Health Education and Team-Based Care. The goal is to create a first-of-its-kind provincial centre, providing an opportunity for students, educators, healthcare professionals, researchers, and patients to work together to improve the quality of healthcare delivery through innovations in interprofessional learning, team-based care, and research. A core component of the Centre will be a new, purpose-built interprofessional teaching clinic in the Gateway building on the UBC Vancouver Point Grey campus. By convening and facilitating partnerships with learners, patients, and UBC health professions programs, the Gateway Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic will lead ongoing innovation and scholarship in collaborative health education and team-based primary care in BC, building learner competencies and placement capacity for collaborative practice in primary care across the province. The Gateway Clinic will aim to support approximately 4,500 patients through longitudinal team-based primary care via the BC Patient Attachment System.
A successful applicant will be currently credentialed as a practicing Nurse Practitioner, holding a Master’s or Doctoral degree in Nursing. They must hold NP registration with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). They will have experience teaching nurse practitioner students in an academic setting or direct clinical supervision in primary care practice. Ideally, they will also have experience in group learning facilitation and interprofessional education, and team-based care. They will provide service to the University, the School, and to the profession by leading and/or participating in quality improvement initiatives, scholarly activities and evaluation of collaborative health education programs and team-based practices as it pertains to Nursing at the Gateway Clinic. As the Gateway Clinic is a newly developing initiative, the successful candidate will help to develop and implement the practices employed at the clinic and will evaluate and iterate upon best practices in team-based education and care.
Salary will be commensurate with the level of educational preparation and experience. The expected salary range for this Lecturer position is $130,000/year to $140,000/year, plus benefits, at 1.0 FTE (pro-rated based on actual FTE).
Applications, including cover letter, CV, teaching statement, EDI statement describing how your teaching and/or practice addresses historical conditions of underrepresentation, discrimination, or other forms of inequity and/or promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion, and contact information for three references, must be submitted online at: https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacultyjobs/details/Lecturer--Gateway-Team-Based-Care-Teaching-Clinic-3_JR23059. Review of applications will begin February 22, 2026 and will continue until the position is filled. To ensure full consideration, applications should be submitted by March 31, 2026.
This advertisement as well as further information about the School of Nursing on its website at http://www.nursing.ubc.ca and information on the employment environment in the Faculty of Applied Science is available at https://apsc.ubc.ca/faculty/career-opportunities. All positions are subject to final budgetary approval.
The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and equitable work environment for all members of its workforce. An inclusive work environment presumes an environment where differences are accepted, recognized, and integrated into current structures, planning, and decision-making modes. Within this hiring process, we will make efforts to create an inclusive and equitable process for all candidates (including but not limited to people with disabilities). Accommodation is available on request for all candidates taking part in the selection process. To confidentially request accommodation, please contact Rico Choi, Human Resources and Finance Manager, at Rico.Choi@ubc.ca.
To learn more about UBC’s Centre for Workplace Accessibility, please visit their website https://hr.ubc.ca/health-and-wellbeing/working-injury-illness-or-disability/centre-workplace-accessibility. To learn more about how the University is working to create a more inclusive working and learning environment, please see the UBC Inclusion Action Plan's goals related to recruitment and retention [https://equity.ubc.ca/about/inclusion-action-plan/recruitment-retention-and-success/].
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Land Acknowledgement:
The School of Nursing at UBC gratefully acknowledge that our students, faculty, and staff gather on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish people, particularly the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nations. In all our work, we are committed to enacting the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to upholding the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, and to fostering Indigenous health and cultural safety.
Key responsibilities
• Supervise learners, and when required due to learner capacity, provide direct care to patients, including but not limited to: List specific responsibilities in care as applicable
• Perform comprehensive health assessments, make diagnoses, and develop, implement and monitor care plans across the lifespan.
• Order and interpret diagnostic tests and prescribe treatments, including pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
• Provide care for acute and chronic conditions, including reproductive health, mental health, and substance use.
• Support continuity of care through patient panel management, team collaboration, and system navigation.
• Establish priorities for health management; provide follow-up treatment; communicate findings, diagnoses, and priorities to patients and families; support and counsel patients in response to diseases and conditions.
• Consulting, coordinating and referring to other team members, specialists or community organizations to support the patient and caregiver in multiple dimensions of their health and wellbeing.
• Providing On-call coverage for critical lab values.
• Documenting care, keeping medical records using the clinic’s electronic medical record keeping system.
• Working within their full scope and recognizing and addressing gaps in their knowledge to ensure safe, quality care
• Role model person-centred and relationship care for learners by empowering patients and caregivers as experts in their own lives, prioritizing patient agency and advocating for patients and caregivers as equal team members and partners in care and education. Actively involve patients in clinical teaching and student learning (e.g. giving feedback to students on communication skills).
• Provide student support, mentorship and training to learners from across the health professions. This may include providing feedback and preparing evaluations to learners regarding their patient care.
• Expectations from the health professions around teaching, service, education, committee work
• Use data and research insights to devise and propose meaningful changes for ongoing improvement of clinical teaching, learning and interprofessional practice and education
• Work cohesively in a team environment, including the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with a large group of faculty, staff, students, patients, caregivers, other individuals within a patient’s support network, and partner organizations in care, education and research.
• Learn, adapt and utilize health and learning technologies (e.g. electronic health record, artificial intelligence) effectively in a rapidly changing health system and health professions education program.
• Contribute to the clinic’s learning health system approach by initiating, co-designing, and implementing quality improvement projects that align with clinic priorities, teaching objectives, and patient-identified needs; analyze and interpret data to guide change; evaluate outcomes; and disseminate findings to advance team-based primary care practice and education.
Successful candidates must have demonstrated experience teaching, providing mentorship and direct clinical supervision and working in team-based care contexts. Familiarity with the UBC School of Nursing’s Master of Nursing – Nurse Practitioner (MN-NP) curriculum is desirable. In addition, the successful candidate will:
• Demonstrate a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, inclusion, and trauma-informed care.
• Possess a willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own.
• Demonstrate a strong foundation in key program concepts such as person-centred, team-based care, interprofessional education, shared decision-making and continuous quality improvement or approaches for integrating knowledge into practice.
• Demonstrate a commitment to cultural humility and lifelong learning by continuing to develop the technical, relational and professional skills needed now and in the future to support a diverse range learners and patients.
• Demonstrate the ability to work in an educational environment supporting and enabling the success of learners (e.g. health professional students).
• Demonstrate excellence in clinical knowledge and experience conducting comprehensive assessments of patients, providing medical diagnoses, ordering appropriate screening diagnostic investigations, interpreting reports within the Nurse Practitioner’s scope of practice.
• Possess extensive experience practicing autonomously and interdependently within the context of an interdisciplinary health care team, collaborating, consulting or making referrals to specialist physicians and other appropriate professionals.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the determinants of health and health promotion and chronic disease prevention and management principles and practices.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the standards of practice and guidelines for clinical practitioners established by British Columbia College of Nursing Professionals (BCCNP).
• Demonstrate experience and interest in pursuing evaluation and scholarly activities to advance collaborative health education and practice improvement.
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate effectively, both in-person and virtually, with a diverse team in a complex environment.
• Demonstrates exceptional, culturally safe communication skills that support therapeutic relationships, clear documentation, collaborative team-based care, and psychologically safe environments for learners, patients and colleagues alike.
Qualifications
Applicants must hold a Master of Nursing - Nurse Practitioner degree and have a current practicing registration with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) - NP (Family) in good standing. Professional liability insurance is required. Applicants with an additional post-graduate degree in a related discipline (e.g. education, leadership, or research) are preferred. The successful candidate must have 2+ years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner with clinical experiences in primary care, community health or rural/remote practice being a strong asset.
Compensation & benefits
These positions will be between 0.60 and 1.0 FTE The initial appointment will be for a one-year term with the possibility of reappointment subject to demonstrated excellence in teaching. The position is also expected to engage in clinical supervision and service contributions to advance collaborative health education, practice or quality improvement. The successful applicant will contribute to the assessment and evaluation of learners in the clinical setting of the Gateway Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic, working with students from nursing and other health professional programs. The expected salary range for this Lecturer position is $130,000/year to $140,000/year, plus benefits, at 1.0 FTE (pro-rated based on actual FTE).
How to apply
An application package should include:
• a letter of application that addresses scholarly, professional and creative work, teaching philosophy, administrative service, research and experience fostering interprofessional collaboration and education;
• a brief statement (1-2 pages) of your current or previous contributions to advancing anti-racism, equity, diversity, decolonization, Indigenization and inclusion in an academic, professional, or community context;
• a detailed curriculum vitae; and
• names of three references
Applications should be submitted online at An application package should include:
• a letter of application that addresses scholarly, professional and creative work, teaching philosophy, administrative service, research and experience fostering interprofessional collaboration and education;
• a brief statement (1-2 pages) of your current or previous contributions to advancing anti-racism, equity, diversity, decolonization, Indigenization and inclusion in an academic, professional, or community context;
• a detailed curriculum vitae; and
• names of three references
Applications should be submitted online at: An application package should include:
• a letter of application that addresses scholarly, professional and creative work, teaching philosophy, administrative service, research and experience fostering interprofessional collaboration and education;
• a brief statement (1-2 pages) of your current or previous contributions to advancing anti-racism, equity, diversity, decolonization, Indigenization and inclusion in an academic, professional, or community context;
• a detailed curriculum vitae; and
• names of three references
Applications should be submitted online at: https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs