Health Services Manager

**Req ID**:204268**
**Location**:Western** Zone,**South Shore Regional Hospital**
**Department**:OPWZ PERI Operating Room SSRH**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary**Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%**) x**1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:12-Jun-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.

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Health Services Director and Site Lead, the Health Services Manager is responsible for the management, planning and coordination within the PACU, including daily operations of people-centred programs within and external to the Nova Scotia Health (NSH).

This role requires a high degree of decision making, change management, team building and collaboration skills. Responsibilities include process design and redesign initiatives related to improvement activities in the department.

Working in a co-leadership model, the Health Services Manager is also responsible for working with physician co-leads of the areas required to engage the interdisciplinary team to address key clinical practices and utilization management/patient flow in the provision of quality care throughout the continuum. Knowledge of data information management systems is essential in reporting indicators and outcome measurements. Essential components of this position include a high degree of expertise in decision-making, creativity, interpersonal skills, professional development, and informational roles to perform a wide variety of technical, human, conceptual, leadership, and financial management functions and behaviors.

This position also requires a high degree of initiative and change leadershifting ability. The ability to travel freely in the zone is required.

**Qualifications**:

- Baccalaureate Degree in Health Discipline
- Masters in Nursing, Health Services Administration or Business Administration is preferred
- Must be registered with the professional college of relevant health discipline or eligible for registration
- Five to seven years of relevant clinical experience is required
- Previous Perioperative/PeriAnaesthesia experience preferred
- CHE certification is an asset
- Previous leadership/management experience an asset
- Demonstrates analytical, independent and creative decision making
- Demonstrates high degrees of self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills
- Experience and expertise in process planning and redesign work
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of issues and trends impacting the publicly funded health care system, nationally and internationally
- Demonstrates the leadership capabilities that encompass the LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
- Successful Applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment

**Hours of Work**:

- Long assignment, Full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$46.36 - $61.60 hourly

**Once You've Applied**

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