Secretary F

**Req ID**:201841**
**Location**:Central** Zone,**Mumford Professional Centre**
**Department**:CNS Strat-Retool Need Family PracticeMGR**
**Type of Employment**:Temporary**Hourly FT long-assignment** (**100%**) x**1**
**Admin Professionals** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:6-May-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**:
Reporting to the Manager
- Planning and Development, the incumbent is the team lead for the Need a Family Practice Registry for planning, coordinating, implementing and evaluating clerical activities at Mumford Professional Centre
- Primary Health Care. The incumbent provides day-to-day administrative support to the Manager to oversee the day-to-day activities of clerical support staff by ensuring appropriate distribution of workload to maximize efficiency and effectively meet needs; scheduling and rearranging resources during periods of staff absence; supporting timesheets and payroll deadlines; orientation of support staff and ensuring collaborative teamwork. The incumbent is responsible for processing requisitions for supplies and services for the Need a Family Practice Registry-Primary Health Care; maintaining records of same and helping to ensure cost effective utilization of resources. The incumbent is also responsible for working with the Manager to ensure appropriate collection and monitoring of relevant statistical and other data related to clinic operations including advanced access, scheduling and workflow.

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

- Grade XII plus completion of a one-year secretarial diploma or equivalent
- A minimum of three years' experience in a leadership role required
- Experience in a family practice setting is preferred
- Possess excellent computer skills
- Efficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, outlook, and PHC electronic patient record systems such as TELUS, Med Access, etc
- Completion of medical terminology course is an asset
- Minimum typing speed of 60 wpm is an asset
- Experience in unionized environment preferred
- Current knowledge of concepts/trends in office management
- Above average co-ordination, organization, multitasking and decision making abilities required
- Excellent communicator with highly developed interpersonal skills, tact and judgment required, confidentiality and discretion.
- Complex scheduling experience is an asset
- Above average ability to work collaboratively with support staff and management team.
- Ability to prioritize workload and work under pressure with frequent interruptions and conflicting deadlines
- Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently, without direct supervision
- Excellent time management and organization skills. Accuracy is essential, strong attention to detail
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

A skills test will be administered.

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Full-time long assignment; 70 hours bi-weekly
- Approximately 18 months
- Shifts could include days, evenings and weekends

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$28.80 - $31.76 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.