Health Services Manager - Emergency Department

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Location: Central Zone, Cobequid Community Health Centre

Department: OPCZ Emergency CCH

Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100%)

Management/Non Union Position

Posting Closing Date: 24-Apr-25

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out novascotia to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Opportunity

The Health Services Manager is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to multi-disciplinary teams within a patient-centred, collaborative Practice Model for patient care.

Working collaboratively and consultatively with patients/clients, families, management, staff, physicians, community partners, and service providers, the Manager applies strategic and analytical thinking to address challenges to achieve the ultimate goal of high quality, safe and cost-effective services to better support patient experience/outcome.

The Manager exhibits sound professional judgment and initiative while working within the framework and objectives of the Health Services Program and the Mission and Vision and Strategic Directions of NSH and incorporates into daily practice the Core Competencies and Values of NSH.

The Cobequid Community Health Centre Emergency Department is a 30 bay Department providing Emergency services on a 17 hour basis.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in a health related discipline
2. Minimum five (5) years recent clinical experience in an Emergency Department
3. Minimum five (5) years recent experience in a leadership and/or management position with responsibilities related to program planning, evaluation, human resource and financial management within a unionized environment
4. Master's Degree or Leadership certificate an asset
5. Experience developing and facilitating strategies consistent with the principles of Organizational Health
6. Demonstrated proficiency in program planning, financial and human resource management, oral and written communication and interpersonal effectiveness
7. Excellent leadership, organizational, analytical, problem solving, conflict resolution, negotiation, strategic thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to successfully change, adapt, overcome, and cope with unexpected challenges
8. Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strategic partnerships and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners across the healthcare continuum
9. Demonstrated commitment to employee and self-development and continuous quality improvement
10. Proficiency with computer applications including Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, internet, email, and the ability to utilize health information systems for decision support
11. Travel may be required
12. Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours

Long Assignment Full-time Position; 75 hours bi-weekly, Approximately 24 months

Compensation and Benefits

$49.13 - $65.28 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ and self-identify.