Health Protection Consultant

**Req ID**:144135**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Central** **Zone, **Public Health Services - Burnside**
**Department**:PH Health Protection CZ**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly FT long-assignment** **(**100%** **FTE) x **1** **position(s)**
**Status: MGMT/NON-Union** **Management/Non Union** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:17-Nov-22**

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 Manager, Health Protection, the Health Protection Consultant provides advanced knowledge, leadership and coordination of public health workforce development at the zone level in the area of health protection.

The Consultant provides an expert level of advice to support and coordinate the implementation of evidence, tools and best practice related to the communicable disease and immunization standards and protocols. The Consultant will work with the Manager to ensure supports are in place across the zone to support the work. The position works closely with public health staff, zone leadership, other NSHA consultants and leaders, local stakeholders and system and external partners to ensure consistent, effective outcomes in the area of health protection.

This position is a key support for consistent and quality practice across zones. The Consultant provides guidance, coordination and direction to staff on the use of methods and tools, continually advising staff practice to ensure alignment with established standards of practice, operational requirements and scientific developments. The Consultant also initiates and provides recommendations to the manager on quality initiatives and work practice changes or work force distribution to optimize efficiency.

The Consultant collaborates with system and external partners, identifies and monitors key indicators, and supports knowledge exchange across the health system and other sectors. The Consultant spends time on a daily and weekly basis monitoring trends and gathering local evidence to inform process and operational improvements to protect the health across the zone. The position leads program planning
- from assessment to implementation and evaluation using a prevention lens.

**Qualifications**:

- Masters’ in public health, environmental health, public health sciences or equivalent with 3-5 years relevant experience
- Baccalaureate degree in public health sciences, nursing, environmental health or relevant field with 5-7 years relevant experience
- Equivalent combination of education and 7 years progressive leadership experience may be considered
- Eligible for registration with a professional body as appropriate
- Experience in planning, development and evaluation of public health programs, services and initiatives
- Demonstrated proficiency in the Core Competencies for Public Health and LEADS
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods
- Demonstrated success in building strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners to achieve health protection outcomes
- Demonstrated judgment, decision making, and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated planning, organization and time management skills
- Ability to deal with competing priorities
- Demonstrated high standards of ethics, integrity, respect and accountability
- Knowledge of and experience with health protection legislation in the Nova Scotia context
- Knowledge of and experience with provincial and federal outbreak response plans
- Knowledge of and experience implementing the steps in an outbreak investigation
- Knowledge of and experience in case load management and review
- Knowledge of and experience in notifiable disease reporting, outbreak reporting
- Demonstrated innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities

**Qualifications**:

- Demonstrated ability to engage diverse stakeholders to leverage action on health equity
- Ability to engage in knowledge translation and dissemination by retrieving, assessing and synthesizing complex research findings from published and grey literature and practice based lines of evidence and share results with a variety of audiences
- Develops recommendations for training and professional d