Secretary Ii

**Req ID**:153519**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Northern** **Zone, **Aberdeen Hospital**
**Department**:MHA Admin Clerical**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly FT long-assignment** **(**100%** **FTE) x **1** **position(s)**
**Status: NSGEU** **Admin Professionals** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:3-Apr-23**

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

- Graduate of a recognized post-secondary secretarial or office administration certificate or diploma program required
- One year recent experience required.
- Knowledge of Mental Health and Addictions programs and services within the local community, the Northern Zone, as well as within the province is considered an asset
- Must possess interpersonal rapport and skills to effectively communicate with colleagues and clients and community at large
- Must possess considerable organizational skills necessary to ensure effective time management of office operations, and the meeting of deadlines
- Experience with Dictaphone and transcription required
- Effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills (communicates in a respectful, honest and genuine manner)
- Excellent interpersonal skills (ability to put others at ease, uses skills and genuine interest in others to build respectful trusting relationships)
- Ability to effectively plan and organize (balances multiple duties, distinguishes between urgent/non-urgent priorities, updates team members on progress)
- Team player and cooperative (proactively offers assistance to team when needed, supports team’s purpose and acts to positively influence team results)
- Ability to work under occasionally stressful conditions in a busy office setting
- High degree of professionalism as to offer reception services to individuals from all areas of society with a variety of problems and challenges and from diverse cultures
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

A Skills test may be conducted as a component of the selection process to assess technical and job specific knowledge

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

**Hours**:

- Long Assignment, Full-time; 70 Hours Bi-weekly

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$20.36 - $23.14 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 Admin Professionals 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.

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