Manager, Health Protection Cz- Public Health

3 months ago

Dartmouth, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time

**Req ID**:180634**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Public Health Services - Burnside**
**Department**:PH Health Protection CZ**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%** FTE) x **1** position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:31-May-24**

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.

**About the Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Director, Public Health, and working closely with the zone public health management team, the Manager is responsible for anticipating and planning the public health resources and actions as they relate to the health protection functions across the zone. The Manager ensures resources are deployed to achieve consistent practice that is aligned with established standards, protocols, procedures and guidelines. S/he actively identifies emerging issues within the zone and takes action to improve quality and achieve measurable improvements that protect and promote health, while managing recruitment, orientation, performance management and change management for the team. The Manager collaborates with the other Health Protection Managers across the zones to fulfill the provincial program mandate and to seek opportunities for quality improvement in the program area.

The Manager leads a multi-disciplinary team of public health practitioners, whose work is focused on anticipating, planning for, identifying, assessing and mitigating threats to health, taking action to prevent disease and injury, promoting health and measuring outcomes across the zone. This includes reducing the incidence, morbidity and mortality of communicable diseases of public health importance and increasing the population prevalence of immunization. S/he coordinates the response to emergent issues, including communicable disease outbreaks and public health emergencies as defined by the Health Protection Act with support from the Manager, Health Protection, Science and System Performance.

The Manager identifies opportunities for quality improvement within the zone, continually monitoring and measuring team progress, competencies and outcomes. As the champion for health protection within the zone, the Manager pursues opportunities to connect and integrate health protection functions and activities with other teams, partners and stakeholders with the aim of optimizing impacts and achieving outcomes consistent with public health legislation, standards and protocols.

The Manager demonstrates a core set of public health attitudes and values, applies public health core competencies to all of his/her work and; is accountable to provide competent, safe and ethical professional practice.

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

- Baccalaureate degree in health related field (nursing, public health science, health sciences, environmental health).
- Masters degree preferred in health related field or acceptable equivalent
- Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
- Eligible for registration with a professional body as appropriate.
- 5-7 years progressive leadership experience including 3- 5 years recent related management experience in a unionized health care/ community setting, including financial and human resource management.
- Experience in the planning, development and evaluation of Public Health programs, services and initiatives based on community assessments, data, emerging science and best practice models.
- Ability to assess and anticipate future needs, potential problems, directions and development for all aspects of strategic, financial, operational and human resource management.
- Ability to develop and sustain coalitions, alliances, and partnerships with the members of the health care sector and external agencies.
- Proficiency in the Core Competencies for Public Health.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods.
- Demonstrated judgment, decision making, and problem-solving skills.

**About You Continued**:

- Demonstrated leadership, strategic thinking, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated planning, organization and time management skills. Ability to deal with competing priorities.
- Knowledge of applicable legislation and regulations including the NS _Health

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