Youth Health Centre Coordinator - Public Health

Req ID: 194403
Location: Western Zone, Shelburne/Lockeport Schools
Department: PH School DGH
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly PT (83%) x 1
NSGEU Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with specialized services offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through collaboration, reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team provides 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.

Reporting to the Manager Healthy Communities, the Youth Health Centre Coordinator (YHCC) is an active member of the Healthy Communities Public Health Team and works within the Public Health Standards and Protocols and a Health Promoting Schools Approach.

The YHCC provides leadership, assessment, service navigation, youth engagement, and support for youth associated with the assigned school facility and its immediate community. The YHCC champions youth health and health equity and facilitates youth engagement as a component of health-promoting schools. The position collaborates with school administrators, teachers, SchoolsPlus, guidance, student/youth support workers, primary health care, mental health and addictions, and other community partners to ensure youth have access to support, programs, and services that promote health.

About You

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

• Baccalaureate degree in a relevant health care discipline (registered nurse, occupational therapist, social work, nutritionist).
• Minimum of three years’ experience in a relevant field; directly working with youth is required.
• Registered/licensed with your regulated health care discipline, college or association (registered nurse, occupational therapist, social work, nutritionist).
• Must have a valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle.
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to critically assess situations and navigate complex scenarios using sound decision-making and a non-judgmental, trauma-informed approach.
• Demonstrated ability and experience in creating opportunities for meaningful youth engagement and fostering youth leadership.
• Demonstrated understanding of the social determinants of health, health equity, and the impact on health outcomes for youth, families, and communities.
• Experience in the application of public health principles and practices, partnership development, and community development.
• Experience relevant to children and youth, health promotion strategies in school and community settings preferred.
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred.

Hours

• Permanent Part Time: 0.83 FTE, 75 Hours Bi-weekly.
• Coordinators work 75 hours biweekly for an approximate ten-month period, aligning with the school calendar year.

Compensation and Benefits

$33.80 - $44.17 Hourly. Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, life insurance coverage, and 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.
This is a Healthcare bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative 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+ to apply and self-identify.