Health Services Manager

**Req ID**:168351**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII**
**Department**:OPCZ Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%** FTE) x **1** position(s)**
**Status**:Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:21-Nov-23**

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 Health Services Director, Heart Health Portfolio, the Health Services Manager is responsible for the planning and coordination of Heart Health Ambulatory Clinics and the daily operations of client-centred programs and services within and external to the Nova Scotia Health Authority. 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 behaviours. This manager is responsible for all clinics within Cardiology/Cardiac and Vascular Surgery.
- Promoting and emphasizing person-centred care in partnership with the patient, family, and health care team.
- Critically evaluating service delivery and identifying creative opportunities to leverage skill set and capacity of team to optimize clinical impact and outcomes.
- Developing, implementing and maintaining an active human resource plan including recruitment, selection, interviewing and hiring.
- Preparing and analyzing all relevant financial and clinical data, report trends and identify where corrective action is required for budget variances, as well as implementing changes as required and evaluates the effectiveness of the changes.
- Planning and managing outcome and process improvements for quality patient care.
- Representing professional discipline or service/program by active and effective participation in meetings and on committees.
- Establishing and maintaining creative and efficient communication processes across clinical teams, geographically different sites, other disciplines, and other stakeholders within NSH as required.

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

- Baccalaureate degree from a health discipline required.
- Master’s degree an asset.
- Must be registered with the applicable licensing body.
- 5 to 7 years of relevant clinical experience required.
- Previous leadership/management experience an asset.
- Experience and expertise in process planning and redesign work.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of issues and trends impacting the publicly funded health care system, particularly those in the specialized areas of neurosciences, orthopedics and spine in Nova Scotia, nationally and internationally.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practices within Heart Health Ambulatory Care.
- Requires a high level of sound judgment, initiative, and self-direction.
- Demonstrates high degree of independent decision-making, motivation, creativity, flexibility, adaptability, and change management knowledge.
- Proven and highly developed leadership skills including vision, self-awareness, relationship, and team building skills, and communication skills.
- Demonstrates the leadership capabilities that encompass the LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework as asset.

**Hours**:
Permanent Full-time position; 75 hours biweekly

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$43.91 - $58.34 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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