Registered Nurse; RN | Perioperative

Who We Are

Interior Health (IH) is committed to achieving a culturally diverse and inclusive workforce that is representative of the communities we serve, and where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work. Well‑being and work life balance is promoted within the IH team, and our commitment to environmental sustainability supports our primary goal of increasing the health and well‑being of everybody in the Interior Health region from our employees to the population we serve.

• Employee & Family Assistance Program
• Employer paid training/education opportunities
• Generous Vacation Entitlement
• Employer Paid Health Benefits
• Municipal Pension Plan
• Shift Premiums
• Competitive wages

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Perioperative Registered Nurse to join our Operating Room team at Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops, BC. The nursing role is a relief part‑time (0.66 FTE) opportunity until November 10 2027, or the return of the incumbent.

Responsibilities:

• Provides nursing care to OR patients, both by working independently and as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Enhances quality of life for the patient and family; consults, confers, and collaborates with other health care providers
• Demonstrates continuous improvement and evidence‑based practice in nursing practice
• Maintains and advances own clinical competence
• Participates on designated hospital committees/teams and approved research projects as assigned

Shift schedule: days and evenings rotating from 07:00 to 15:30, 07:15 to 15:45, 09:30 to 18:00, 10:00 to 18:30, 14:45 to 23:15. There is an on‑call requirement.

Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) is in the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap health service area and is one of two Interior Health tertiary referral hospitals. Located in Kamloops, RIH offers high‑level, specialty medical care including core physician specialties, 24‑hour emergency and trauma services, ambulatory and outpatient clinics, and diagnostic services. Specialty services include ambulatory psychiatry, elderly mental health, clinical nutrition, and lung health.

Royal Inland Hospital’s Operating Room Department has 9 theatres offering services that include:
General (MIS bowels, hernias, spleen, whirlpools), Trauma, Ortho Trauma, Obs/Gyne (LAVH), Urology (MIS Nephrectomy, Cystectomy, PCNLs), Ortho (total joints, sports medicine), ENT, Neuro (Craniotomies, spinal surgery), Vascular (AAA stents, bypass grafts, pacemakers, wound management), Major Plastics, Dental, and Laser cases (Holmium, CO₂, YAG). OR RNs are expected to work in all services. As a member of the RIH Operating Room team, you will have circulating and scrubbing duties while coordinating and overseeing the overall care of the patient.