Quality & Patient Safety Leader

4 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada Nova Scotia Health Authority Full time

**Req ID**:187332**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII**
**Department**:QISR Quality, Patient Safety CZ**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%**) x **1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:3-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**:
Reporting to the Manager, Quality Improvement & Safety, the Quality Improvement & Safety Leader will provide leadership within NSH’s overall provincial and zone programs for quality, safety, accreditation, risk management; and responsibility to implement all aspects of comprehensive quality improvement, patient safety, patient family engagement, risk management and accreditation plans to achieve the best outcomes in health care program and service delivery, safe care and continuous improvement to meet or exceed all accreditation requirements.

QIS Leaders hold many responsibilities including leading investigations of patient safety incidents, facilitating quality reviews, trending analysis, leading and/or providing improvement coaching for quality improvement initiatives, supporting accreditation activities, as well as providing education and training related to QIS related priorities, policies and procedures.

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

- Undergraduate degree from a health care profession program/discipline
- Master's level preparation in a clinical health discipline, Health Services Administration, Business Administration or a related program an asset
- Minimum of 5 years quality and patient safety leadership experience, which includes 5 years of relevant clinical experience in a health care environment including expertise to critically review health records as part of the quality review process preferred
- Access to a reliable form of transportation required
- Appropriate licensure/membership in professional organizations
- Certificate or training related to quality improvement, patient safety, risk management, or related program an asset
- Certified Health Executive is an asset
- Experience in planning and implementing a variety of strategic activities related to accreditation, safety, quality improvement, infection control and prevention practices, risk management, patient relations and patient engagement, provided across several locations with multiple partners and stakeholders and while ensuring appropriate confidentiality
- Experience engaging teams, leaders, medical staff, clinicians, patients/clients and stakeholders in a collaborative, participatory manner
- Experience and demonstrated expertise with in data management, data analysis and statistical manipulation; excellent report writing and presentation skills, presenting results in a meaningful manner specific to the target audience
- Excellent knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation and graphics software required
- Experience in project management and program evaluation an asset.
- Demonstrated ability of independent decision making, creativity, self-direction, motivation, change management and team building/ leadership skills
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines in a fast
- paced environment
- Demonstrates a positive, solution oriented and collaborative approach and is comfortable navigating complex system issues, and implementing innovation solutions to thorny problems
- Competencies in other languages an asset; French preferred

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

**Hours**:

- Permanent, full-time position, 75 hrs bi-weekly

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$42.94 - $57.05 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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