Health Services Manager – Ambulatory Care

Job title: Health Services Manager – Ambulatory Care

Job description: Req ID: 138275
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Central Zone, Centennial Building – QEII
Department: OPCZ Ambulatory Care VG Site
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT short-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: MGMT/NON-Union Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 8-Aug-22

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 an 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 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.

This role requires a high degree of decision making, change management, team building and collaboration skills. Responsibilities include process design and redesign initiatives related to improvement activities in the department.

Working in a co-leadership model, the Health Services Manager is also responsible for working with physician co-leads of the areas required to engage the interdisciplinary team to address key clinical practices and utilization management/patient flow in the provision of quality care throughout the continuum. Knowledge of data information management systems is essential in reporting indicators and outcome measurements. Essential components of this position include a high degree of expertise in decision-making, creativity, interpersonal skills, professional development, and informational roles to perform a wide variety of technical, human, conceptual, leadership, and financial management functions and behaviors.

This position requires a high degree of initiative and change leadership ability. The ability to travel freely in the zone is required.

About You

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Health Discipline
• Masters in Nursing, Health Services Administration or Business Administration is preferred
• Must be registered with the professional college of relevant health discipline
• Minimum of five years of relevant clinical experience is required
• Minimum of five 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
• CHE certification is an asset
• Previous leadership/management experience an asset
• Demonstrates analytical, independent and creative decision making
• Demonstrates high degrees of self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills
• Experience and expertise in process planning and redesign work
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of issues and trends impacting the publicly funded health care system, nationally and internationally
• Demonstrates the leadership capabilities that encompass the LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework
• 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

• Short Assignment, Full-Time (100%) position; 75 hours biweekly
• Approximately 6 months
• Dates are subject to change

Compensation and Incentives

$42.63 – $56.64 Hourly

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 Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

​As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.

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. Our priority groups are Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+. Members of these groups are welcome to apply and self-identify.

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