Clinical Lead

**Req ID**:208617**
**Location**:Provincial** Zone,**Westway 1**
**Department**:OPOR Clinical Standards Mgr**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent**Hourly FT** (**100%**) x**1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:4-Sep-25**

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**:
The Clinical Lead has a fundamental role in the success of this complex, multi-organizational clinical transformation initiative. Their provision of critical consultative leadership, clinical expertise, planning, and direction at the multi health authority Program/Specialty Level and with all work streams, will ensure the scale and fundamental nature of clinical transformation required is understood at appropriate leadership levels, the achievement of drivers/goals and the delivery of a well-planned strategy in collaboration with the health organization leaders.

The Clinical lead is responsible for providing oversight for the development of clinical standards to support the implementation of clinical information systems. The Clinical lead leads clinical care process design and reviews activities across the organization to ensure maximum benefits and enhancements are achieved.

The Clinical lead independently addresses issues and makes decisions of moderate complexity with little or no supervision and delivers clear communication and documentation of complex concepts and issues across the organizations. This includes:

- leading the analysis and dissemination of best practice standards and content
- clearly communicating both up (sr. leadership) and down (front line staff) across the organization
- facilitating consensus and decision making across broad stakeholder groups
- being organized, outcomes driven, preparing work packages and decision documents for review by stakeholder/working groups
- having the ability to understand and support system level impacts and decisions while narrowing focus to translate and communicate stakeholder impact effectively

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

- Undergraduate degree in health related field. Consideration may be given to those with appropriate training and work experience
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a clinical environment
- Demonstrated knowledge and skill in the implementation of evidence-based practice in a clinical setting
- Demonstrated leadership in clinical and policy change
- Demonstrated ability to work with physicians/providers with a proven ability to manage conflict and lead people through change
- Broad knowledge of the applicable standards of practice and guidelines for clinical practitioners
- Uses effective leadership, facilitation, communication and negotiation abilities to achieve consensus, resolve conflict, achieve desired outcomes and address potential barriers to success
- Project Management and change management certification would be considered an asset
- Experience services in a complex health care organizational environment considered an asset
- Proficient knowledge of healthcare industry required; familiarity with clinical and administrative hospital functions and departments preferred
- Strong analytical, organizational and problem solving skills with the ability to multi-task to meet tight deadlines
- Experience in working with patient care leaders
- Ability to analyze highly complex systems and workflows

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

**Hours**:

- Permanent, Full-time, 75 Hours Bi-weekly.
- This role is is primarily scheduled Monday-Friday, (08:00-16:00). During system implemenations and go-lives, hours of work may vary and could include evenings, nights, and weekends.
- Travel across the province will be required.

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$40.95 - $51.19 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

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