Advanced Practice Leader

3 weeks ago


Halifax, Canada IWK Health Centre Full time

**Company**: IWK Health**:
**Req ID**:163962
**Department/Program**:Mental Health And Addictions, Mental Health & Addictions Program
**Location**: Halifax
**Type of Employment**:Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) until September 2025 x 1 position(s)
**Start Date**: ASAP
**Union Status**: Non-union, Management/Non Union Bargaining Unit
**Compensation**: $49.402**:

- **$61.7527 /hour
**Closing Date**: 30 August 2023 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults, and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers, and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families, and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

**The Opportunity**:
The position of Advanced Practice Leader, Research, Evaluation, and Outcomes is responsible for developing and overseeing a framework for evaluation and coordinating evaluation work currently happening across the MHA Program. This role encompasses comprehensive program-wide service and patient-specific evaluative outcomes. Knowledge translation and ensuring the availability of appropriate data for the patient, clinician, management, and decision-makers is an integral component of this role. This role supports the work of frontline staff by identifying needed resources for evaluative research and data management, as well as assisting the program leadership team in answering key outcomes questions. The APL will be expected to monitor strategic key performance indicators for the program within the continuous quality improvement framework and provide recommendations to leadership following the interpretation of the data. Monitoring of outcomes will include clinical progress monitoring and outcome data, including goal-based outcomes, program effectiveness, client and family satisfaction, staff satisfaction, and employee engagement. Working closely with other advanced practice leaders, this role leads the implementation of a measurement-based care model within the mental health and addictions program. The APL is expected to be knowledgeable and skilled in various research and evaluation methods and processes to enable the development of an evaluative research agenda and oversee evaluative research and program evaluation projects. The APL will also be expected to offer.2 direct clinical services in the Mental Health and Addictions program and work closely with other APLs and research scientists in the strategic priorities of the program.

**Hours of Work**:
Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours weekly

**Your Qualifications**:

- Doctoral Degree (PHD) in Psychology or other Social Science/Health Science required
- Currently registered or eligible to be registered with appropriate licensing body required
- Five (5) years of clinical experience in Mental Health and Addictions required
- Two (2) years of experience in community-based research and evaluation required
- Appropriate professional affiliations/memberships (e.g., Canadian Evaluation Society, Canadian Psychological Association)
- Demonstrated progressive leadership experience required.
- Strong background in research design and methodology
- Conceptual understanding of data and data management
- Ability to perform a range of statistical analysis
- Awareness of emerging technologies and methodologies
- Working knowledge of various statistical software programs (e.g., SAS, SPSS)
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary setting involving all levels of professional staff
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication, organizational and time management skills
- Competencies in other languages an asset.

Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.

Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.

This is a Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. 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.

An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials.



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