Director - One Person One Record (OPOR), Digital Clinical Practice and Learning

Nova Scotia Health Authority; Halifax; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A provincial health services organization is seeking a Director of Digital Clinical Practice and Learning to advance digital education for the Clinical Information System (CIS). This role involves ensuring strategic alignment with health regulations and overseeing the implementation of comprehensive educational programs for non-provider roles across a multi-site health system. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree and extensive leadership experience in health education and digital transformation initiatives.

Benefits

Health and dental benefits

Defined benefit pension plan

Generous compensation package

Qualifications

• 5–7 years leadership experience in complex health systems.
• Experience with curriculum development and instructional design.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for digital clinical practice and education.
• Oversee provincial training operations and curriculum design.
• Ensure successful CIS adoption across the health system.

Skills

Leadership in large-scale education

Digital clinical transformations

Change management

Project management

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree in Education or related field

Tools

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Job description

Req ID: 213621 Location: CentralZone, Westway 1 Department: OPOR STRAT-Education Learning & Training Type of Employment: PermanentHourly FT(100%) x 1 Management Position: Yes Posting Closing Date: 18-Jan-26

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. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Portfolio

One Person-One Record (OPOR) is a vision and strategy for health in Nova Scotia. It will provide a foundation for improved health system governance, integration of patient information across the care continuum, and standardized processes and practices. OPOR is a collaborative initiative between IWK Centre, Nova Scotia Health and the Government of NS (together making the Province of NS (PNS) and in partnership with patients & families, and our communities. This is a unifying approach where partnering with patient and family is a priority and transcends the typical organizational boundaries.

This program contains multiple components: One Person-One Record (OPOR) is a vision and strategy for health in Nova Scotia. It will provide a foundation for improved health system governance, integration of patient information across the care continuum, and standardized processes and practices. OPOR Clinical Information System (OPOR-CIS) is the replacement of the three existing hospital information systems with a core clinical information system while simplifying the clinical systems environment and enabling it to be extended into the community. Provincially, the OPOR Program facilitates and advances excellence in quality collaborative person-centred care through a coordinated approach to ensuring ongoing meaningful use of the CIS to support clinical best practice and care. The OPOR Program plays a key collaborative leadership role in creating a culture of learning with a focus on evidence informed best practice care delivery, clinical leadership, optimal use of technologies, and knowledge translation. This is achieved by working in partnership with senior leaders from zones, programs, networks within IWK Health & NS Health and the broader health system nationally.

About the Opportunity

The Director, Digital Clinical Practice and Learning is a senior leadership role within OPOR, with provincial accountability for advancing digital clinical practice and education to support the safe, consistent and sustainable adoption of the OPOR Clinical Information System (CIS).

• Digital Clinical Practice for non provider clinical roles, and
• Education and Learning for all CIS end users

Reporting to the Senior Director, this role provides strategic leadership for digital readiness, standardized clinical practice (non-provider roles), and comprehensive learning programs for all CIS end users across Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health.

The Director leads the provincial strategy for digital clinical practice integration, ensuring alignment with regulatory, accreditation, policy and quality frameworks. Working closely with provincial partners, regulatory bodies and clinical leaders, the role defines clear, evidence-informed and operationally feasible digital practice expectations and readiness supports.

In parallel, the Director oversees the end-to-end provincial CIS education and learning strategy, including curriculum design, training delivery, evaluation and long-term sustainment. This includes oversight of training operations, practice labs, onboarding and just-in-time education, trainer development, learning analytics, and continuous improvement.

The Director leads a provincial team and establishes strong academic and system partnerships to support workforce readiness, student placements and phased CIS activation. The role is accountable for training quality, digital practice readiness and ensuring CIS adoption improves safety, quality and consistency of care across the provincial health system.

Specific Functional Areas of Responsibility Include

Digital Clinical Practice (Non Provider)

• Provincial strategy for digital clinical practice readiness, expectations and adoption
• Alignment with regulatory, accreditation, policy and quality frameworks
• Partnership with provincial Interprofessional Practice & Learning, Quality, Accreditation and Policy teams
• Identification of digital practice changes, impacts and readiness supports for non provider roles
• Development of standards, guidance and readiness tools that support consistent digital practice across sites and zones

Education & Learning (All End Users)

• Provincial strategy, design and evaluation of OPOR CIS education and learning programs
• Overview of curriculum development, instructional standards, adult learning and digital literacy alignment
• Overview of provincial training operations, logistics, practice labs and learning environment management
• Provide oversight for trainer development, coaching, performance oversight and instructional quality assurance
• Establish academic partnerships and oversight of OPOR’s student placement initiative
• Responsible to maintain and ensure availability of learning analytics, evaluation frameworks and continuous program improvement

About You

• Master’s degree in Education, Health Professions, Adult Learning, Informatics, Health Administration or a related field
• 5–7 years of progressive leadership experience in large-scale education, learning or digital clinical practice within complex, multi-site health systems
• Registration/licensure with a regulated health profession preferred
• Certification in change management required
• Cerification in project management, education leadership or CCHL certification considered assets
• Formal training in adult learning, curriculum development, instructional design or education technology
• Experience leading large-scale digital clinical transformations (e.g., CIS implementations), including readiness, training, adoption and sustainment
• Advanced knowledge of adult learning principles, instructional design, hybrid/asynchronous delivery and evaluation frameworks
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering province- or organization-wide training programs with complex logistics and multi-site coordination
• Strong understanding of regulatory, accreditation, quality, policy and clinical practice standards
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional stakeholders and high-performing teams in fast-paced environments
• Expertise in change management, digital literacy, implementation science and workforce adoption
• Strong competency with learning technologies, LMS platforms, analytics and performance metrics
• Excellent communication, facilitation and partnership-building skills, including academic and external partnerships
• Strong financial, resource and workforce management experience across phased implementations
• 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.

Compensation and Benefits

$58.092 - $72.6152 hourly ($113,279 - $141,599 annually). Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

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

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.