If you’re an experienced Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse looking for a meaningful career move—and a change in lifestyle—bring your skills to the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Join Island Health’s nursing team as it prepares for the opening of Quw’utsun Valley Hospital / Quw’utsun Hulitun-ew’t-hw in 2027. Deliver safe, compassionate and patient-centred care while building your own next chapter in a community connected to lakes, trails and the coast.
Signing Bonus of up to $20,000
Hiring incentives may be available for select high-demand roles. Island Health participates in Provincial Recruitment and Retention Incentive programs to help attract and support qualified healthcare professionals. These incentives apply only to select positions that meet program eligibility requirements, including geographical location and candidate qualifications. Candidates will be informed of eligibility as they progress through the recruitment process.
What You’ll Do
As a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse, you will provide direct nursing care to patients and/or residents. Working as part of an interdisciplinary team, you will:
Bring your clinical knowledge, judgement and compassion to the Cowichan team, supporting patients and families through a range of healthcare needs. Responsibilities and specialty education requirements will vary by position.
A New Hospital. Your Next Chapter.
The new Quw’utsun Valley Hospital will replace Cowichan District Hospital in 2027, bringing expanded services and modern, purpose-built care spaces to the region. With capacity for 185 beds and more than three times the space of the current hospital, the new facility has been designed with patient and staff needs in mind.
Highlights include an expanded emergency department, seven operating rooms, increased CT scanning capacity and on-site MRI.
Join the Cowichan team ahead of this transition and contribute your nursing expertise to the community’s next chapter in care.
What You’ll Need to Apply
What We Offer
At Island Health, nursing professionals can build long-term careers supported by competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, a strong pension plan, continuing education and opportunities for internal mobility.
Build Your Career. Make Cowichan Home.
Finding the right role also means finding a place where you want to live. In the Cowichan Valley, you can build a nursing career alongside time on local trails, days by the lake and visits to nearby coastal communities. Bring your skills to meaningful patient care and make room for the activities and connections that matter to you.
A new hospital. Your next chapter.
Apply today: careers.islandhealth.ca/cowichan/
If you identify as Indigenous, please reach out for support with your application from the Indigenous Employee Experience team: indigenousemployment@islandhealth.ca
Island Health respectfully acknowledges that Quw’utsun Valley Hospital / Quw’utsun Hulitun-ew’t-hw is being built on the unceded traditional territory and ancestral lands of Cowichan Tribes, whose stewardship and care for these lands continues today. The hospital will also serve Ditidaht, Pacheedaht, Ts’uubaa-asatx, Malahat, Penelakut, Lyackson, Stz’uminus and Halalt Peoples, as well as Métis and Inuit Peoples.
As an organization, Island Health is committed to cultural safety and humility and we demonstrate this through our actions to address Indigenous-specific racism, systemic racism and the ongoing impacts of colonialism.
Island Health provides health and care services to more than 885,000 people on Vancouver Island, the islands in the Salish Sea and the Johnstone Strait and mainland communities north of Powell River. With more than30,000 healthcare professionals, including more than 3,000 doctors, nurse practitioners, midwives and dentists that make up our Medical Staff – as well as 1,000 volunteers and the dedicated support of 12 foundations and19 active auxiliaries, Island Health delivers a broad range of health services, including public health services, primary health care, home and community care, mental health and substance use services, acute care in hospitals and much more across a huge and geographically diverse region.
We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, offering programs and services on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka'wakw Peoples. As an organization, we are committed to cultural safety and humility and we demonstrate this through our actions to address Indigenous specific racism, systemic racism and the ongoing impacts of colonialism.
We are Island Health. Creating our future together.
Visit our website at www.islandhealth.ca/careers to learn more.
