Health Services Manager

**Req ID**:201555**
**Location**:Central** Zone,**Cobequid Community Health Centre**
**Department**:OPCZ Emergency CCH**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary**Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%**) x**1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:24-Apr-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 Health Services Manager is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to multi-disciplinary teams within a patient-centred, collaborative Practice Model for patient care.

Working collaboratively and consultatively with patients/clients, families, management, staff, physicians, community partners, and service providers, the Manager applies strategic and analytical thinking to address challenges to achieve the ultimate goal of high quality, safe and cost-effective services to better support patient experience/outcome.

The Manager exhibits sound professional judgment and initiative while working within the framework and objectives of the Health Services Program and the Mission and Vision and Strategic Directions of NSH and incorporates into daily practice the Core Competencies and Values of NSH.

The Cobequid Community Health Centre Emergency Department is a 30 bay Department providing Emergency services on a 17 hour basis.

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

- Bachelor’s Degree in a health related discipline
- Minimum five (5) years recent clinical experience in an Emergency Department
- Minimum five (5) years recent experience in a leadership and/or management position with responsibilities related to program planning, evaluation, human resource and financial management within a unionized environment
- Master's Degree or Leadership certificate an asset
- Experience developing and facilitating strategies consistent with the principles of Organizational Health
- Demonstrated proficiency in program planning, financial and human resource management, oral and written communication and interpersonal effectiveness
- Excellent leadership, organizational, analytical, problem solving, conflict resolution, negotiation, strategic thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to successfully change, adapt, overcome, and cope with unexpected challenges
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strategic partnerships and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners across the healthcare continuum
- Demonstrated commitment to employee and self-development and continuous quality improvement
- Travel may be required
- 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**:

- Long Assignment Full-time Position; 75 hours bi-weekly
- Approximately 24 months

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$49.13 - $65.28 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

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