Consultant, Emergency Preparedness

2 weeks ago


Dartmouth, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time

**Req ID**:189956**
**Location**:Provincial** Zone, **Flexible Within the Province**
**Department**:PH SSP Health Protection**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%**) x **1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:25-Oct-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**:
This position is responsible for developing and maintaining a Public Health emergency response plan that is integrated into NSH’s broader all hazard disaster and emergency response plan. This includes the provision of technical expertise, consultative services to zone stakeholders and NSH partners, and advisory support to all zones for public health emergency preparedness, training, response, and recovery activities recognizing the NSH and DHW dual governance structure. Participates in the incident management group for public health outbreak and emergency responses and provides technical and advisory support to the public health leadership team. Contributes to decision making regarding the allocation of public health human resources and reassignment of human resources to support emergency responses in addition to providing recommendations of budgetary allocations for emergency preparedness activities. Ensures ongoing assessment of public health capacity and resource availability through engaging public health leadership. Provides supervisory support to assigned staff during public health emergency responses.

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

- Minimum of 3 years in emergency planning and health emergency planning is required
- Two or more years experience supervising staff in an unionized enviroment
- Minimum of 3 years experience working in intergovernmental relationships and strategic partnerships.
- Minimum of 3 years experience in planning and executing emergency preparedness activities including writing of plans, procedures, protocols, guidelines, and exercise related training.
- Demonstrated proficiency in the Core Competencies for Public Health, LEADS and Incident Management System.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods.
- Demonstrated success in building strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners.
- Two or more years experience completing needs assessments to identify stakeholder learning needs and the development of training plans.
- Demonstrated judgment, decision making, and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated planning, organizational, and time management skills. Ability to deal with competing priorities.
- Demonstrated innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with Public Health emergency preparedness and response.
- Demonstrated high standards of ethics, integrity, respect, and accountability.

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

**Hours**:

- Permanent Full Time/75 hours biweekly

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$37.60 - $47.01 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.



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