Quality Management Coordinator

**Req ID**:185586**
**Location**:Provincial** Zone, **Chipman Facility**
**Department**:MHA WZ Intake, Registration & Reporting**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary** **Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%**) x **1**
**Admin Professionals** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:13-Sep-24**

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 Manager of Planning and Evaluation, Mental Health and Addictions, the Quality Management Coordinator (QMC) is Involved in activities related to planning, developing and delivering research and evaluation activities occurring in Mental Health and Addictions, Nova Scotia Health Authority

Specifically, the QMC initiates and supports evaluation and research into mental health and addictions through:

- The utilization of the mental health and addictions information management systems
- Coordinates and organizes program evaluations involving surveys, focus groups, and other data collection methods, or through research and evaluation initiatives taken on to explore promising areas of prevention or treatment for clients and families, often in collaboration with outside agencies such as Dalhousie University
- The acquisition, appraisal and synthesis of academic and grey literature to provide guidance and up to date information about best practices in research and evaluation in the clinical delivery of services
- Preparation and management of databases for data collection during studies and evaluations
- Writing of reports summarizing research and program evaluation findings for internal use but also those that may be suitable for distribution throughout the provincial health authority and sharing with other government departments.

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

- MSc in Statistics, Biostatistics, Health Informatics or Health Science/Social Science (including graduate level training in research design and statistical analysis) or an equivalent combination of experience
- Minimum 3 years related work experience including applied analytic activities related to program development and evaluation, or continuous quality improvement
- Expert level knowledge and skills related to data linkage, data analysis, statistical manipulation, interpretation, and knowledge translation, using information from multiple source systems to effectively prepare information to meet the needs of the stakeholders
- Experience in program and service development, implementation and evaluation required
- Demonstrates high degree of independent decision-making, self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills
- Demonstrated expertise and understanding of mental health and addiction information systems considered an asset
- Demonstrated experience in using Business Intelligence tools and software an asset
- Knowledge of the Canadian Institute of Health Information and associated databases
- Knowledge of MIS Standards an asset
- Experience in using and reporting from large datasets
- Experience with Literature reviews, ethics and data collection techniques
- Demonstrated experience dealing with multiple deadlines/projects
- Competencies in other languages preferred, French an asset

A skill test will be included as part of the selection process

**Hours**:

- Long assignment full-time position; 70 hours biweekly
- Approximately 18 months
- Some travel will be required between sites
- Position is flexible within the province

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$35.09- $44.09 Hourly

**Once You've Applied**

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

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.