Professional Practice Coordinator

**Req ID: 167895**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Provincial, Flexible Within the Province**
**Department: Violence Prevention, Intervention & Response Program, IPP&L**
**Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)**
**Status: Based on Bargaining Unit and Constituent Union; Healthcare Position**
**Posting Closing Date: 24-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.

The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team facilitates and advances person-centered care through evidence-based professional practice and learning strategies and programs that are designed provincially and implemented locally to enhance collaborative learning and practice. The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team takes a leadership role in creating a culture of collaboration with a focus on team-based care, evidence-informed practice, and learning and professional development to improve health outcomes for patients, families and communities. Through strong partnerships with the academic sector, regulators, and government, the Interprofessional Practice and Learning team has an integral role in influencing and operationalizing health system priorities.

**About the Opportunity**:
Within the IPPL portfolio, the Violence Prevention, Intervention and Response Program focuses on trauma informed, person centred evidence informed care required at various points of entry to health services by individuals and families with experiences of interpersonal violence. This program serves individuals aged 13 years and over who have experienced violence, including sexual assault, domestic violence, or other forms of violence and at a high level of risk for reoccurrence and/or lethality. This provincial program advances professional and interprofessional practice for regulated and unregulated care providers in health service settings across NSH and IWK and other sectors of the province.

Reporting to the Director of the Violence Prevention, Intervention & Response Program, Interprofessional Practice & Learning (IPP&L), the Professional Practice Coordinator (PPC) works collaboratively with members of discipline specific and interprofessional teams to create an environment for optimal person centered care. PPC’s demonstrate expertise in their discipline; as well as demonstrating competency as a consultant, researcher, facilitator, change agent and leader. They foster a culture of learning to build capacity and support safe practice, advances professional practice through the development and implementation of transition to practice programs and ongoing practice at the point of care and professional development that integrates a learner centered approach. This position is responsible for developing, planning, executing and evaluating learning experiences for staff within the program and across NSH, specifically in relation to domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, gender-based violence, and other areas of family violence.

Please note this position is flexible within the province and requires periodic travel to facilities within Nova Scotia. Access to reliable transportation is required.

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

- Master of Science in Social Work required
- Licensure and membership in good standing with the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers required
- 3 years clinical experience as a Social Worker plus 2 years clinical experience with related leadership skills working in the area of domestic/intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and gender-based violence, including experience in course design, developing, implementing, and evaluating curricula and education programming required
- Demonstrated knowledge, experience, and skill in adult learning theories, principles, and best practices in education i.e., curriculum development, program design, writing objectives, evaluation, and different learning styles required
- Previous competency-based teaching experience to health care clinicians required
- Demonstrated experience working in interpersonal violence, specifically in the areas of domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and gender-based violence, and demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the complexity of issues required
- Demonstrated knowledge