Health Services Manager - Arh - Medical Inpatient Unit
Req ID: 194624
Location: Northern Zone, Aberdeen Hospital
Department: OPNZ Medical Nursing Unit
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 13-Jan-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.
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About the Opportunity
Reporting to the Health Services Director, The Health Services Manager is responsible for the management, planning and coordination at the Aberdeen Regional Hospital site, including daily operations of people-centered programs within and external to the Northern Zone, NSHA. Responsibilities include process design and redesign initiatives related to improvement activities in the department. The Health Services Manager is also responsible for providing the leadership required to engage the interdisciplinary team to address key clinical practices and utilization management 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 also 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:
- Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing
- Masters in Nursing, Health Services Administration or Business Administration is preferred
- Must be registered with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing (NSCN) or eligible for registration
- BCLS certification according to minimal organizational standards
- Five to seven years clinical experience
- Previous leadership/management experience
- Demonstrated experience in initiating and managing multiple projects
- Experience in a unionized environment preferred
- Ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines and committees to achieve excellence in patient care
- Demonstrated fiscal and human resource management
- Requires a high level of sound judgement, initiative, and self-direction
- Capable of analytical and creative decision making
- Demonstrates high degrees of independent decision making, self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
- Successful applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment
Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
- Permanent, Full-time position; 75 hours biweekly
- Flexibility outside of regular business hours required
Compensation and Benefits
$45.45 - $60.39 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+ to apply and self-identify.