Team Leader

**Req ID**:187213**
**Location**:Central** Zone, **Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital**
**Department**:OPCZ Physiotherapy ESH**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent** **Hourly FT** (**100%**) x **1**
**NSGEU** **Healthcare** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:5-Nov-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**:
Under the direction of the Health Services Manager, the Team Leader coordinates, monitors, and evaluates the efficient provision of physiotherapy practice as it relates to their clinical team area. Following the principles of team leadership, the team leader will work closely with other team leaders to ensure consistent, equitable, timely, and coordinated care is provided to the patients.

Roles and responsibilities include: identifying staffing needs and ensuring staffing requirements are being met daily; interviewing and assisting with the selection of staff; planning, facilitating, and ensuring the completion of the orientation of therapists and support staff; fostering team processes that develop a continuum of patient care from admission through discharge into the community; provide a liaison between the team and the respective department; program planning and evaluation - ensuring practice is evidence-based and supported by current literature; helping to ensure the utilization of outcome measures and; support to clinical

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

- Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy, required
- 3 years of Physiotherapy clinical experience, required
- Annual registration and licensing with Nova Scotia College of Physiotherapy, required
- Eligible for membership in the Canadian Physiotherapy Association
- Experience working as part of a healthcare team.
- Ability to work independently
- Experience leading or supervising others
- Experience leading a project team; prioritizing tasks, assigning work, and monitoring progress to achieve planned outcome(s)
- Good communication skills and the ability to organize and prioritize activities
- Flexibility in dealing with constantly changing tasks that require input and supervision
- 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**:

- Permanent Full-Time Position, 75 Hours Bi-Weekly

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$36.07 - $46.36 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 Healthcare 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.