Unit Manager

**Req ID**:141571**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location**:Eastern** **Zone, **Cape Breton Regional Hospital**
**Department**:OPEZ Unit B**
**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**:27-Sep-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.

**About the Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Integrated Health Director, EZ, the Unit Manager is responsible for the management, planning and coordination at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital site, Unit 4B, including daily operations of people-centred programs. Responsibilities include process design and redesign initiatives related to improvement activities in the department. The Unit Manager is also responsible for providing the leadership required to engage the interdisciplinary team to address key clinical practices and utilization management in the provision of quality care throughout the continuum. Knowledge of data information management systems is essential in reporting indicators and outcome measurements. Essential components of this position include a high degree of expertise in decision
- making, creativity, interpersonal skills, professional development, and informational roles to perform a wide variety of technical, human, conceptual, leadership, and financial management functions and behaviours. This position also requires a high degree of initiative and change leadership ability.

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

- Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing
- Masters in Nursing, Health Services Administration or Business Administration is preferred
- Must be registered with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing or eligible for registration
- BCLS certification according to mínimal organizational standards
- Five to seven years clinical experience
- Previous leadership/management experience
- Demonstrated experience in initiating and managing multiple projects
- Experience in a unionized environment preferred
- Ability to work collaboratively with other disciplines and committees to achieve excellence in patient care
- Demonstrated fiscal and human resource management
- Requires a high level of sound judgement, initiative, and self-direction
- Capable of analytical and creative decision making
- Demonstrates high degrees of independent decision making, self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills
- 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**:

- Long Assignment / 100% FTE / 75 Hours Bi-weekly
- Approximately one (1) year

**Compensation and Incentives**:
$42.63 - $56.64 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 Management/Non Union 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.

As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.

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