Health Services Manager - Emergency

Nova Scotia Health Authority; Truro; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nova Scotia Health is seeking a Health Services Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams in a patient-centred environment. Candidates should have significant clinical and management experience, excellent leadership skills, and a commitment to continuous quality improvement. This full-time, temporary position offers competitive compensation and benefits, making it an excellent opportunity for experienced healthcare leaders.

Benefits

Health and dental coverage

Long-term disability insurance

Defined benefit pension plan

Qualifications

• 5 years clinical experience in Emergency Department/Critical Care.
• 5 years leadership/management experience in a unionized environment.
• Competencies in additional languages preferred, French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships across the healthcare continuum.
• Ensure high quality and cost-effective services to support patient outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical problem solving

Interpersonal effectiveness

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a health related discipline

Master's Degree or Leadership certificate (an asset)

Tools

Microsoft Word

Power Point

Excel

Job description

Click here to apply as an internal applicant.

Req ID: 206053
Location: Northern Zone,Colchester East Hants Health Centre
Department: OPNZ EMG Emergency CEH
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% ) x 1
MGMT/NON-Union Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 10-Jul-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.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Opportunity

The Health Services Manager is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership to multi-disciplinary teams within a patient-centred, collaborative Practice Model for patient care.

Working collaboratively and consultatively with patients/clients, families, management, staff, physicians, community partners, and service providers, the Manager applies strategic and analytical thinking to address challenges to achieve the ultimate goal of high quality, safe and cost-effectiveservices to better support patient experience/outcome.

The Manager exhibits sound professional judgment and initiative while working within the framework and objectives of the Health Services Program and the Mission and Vision and Strategic Directions of NSH and incorporates into daily practice the Core Competencies and Values of NSH.

About You

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in a health related discipline
• Minimum five (5) years recent clinical experience in an Emergency Department/Critical Care Setting
• Minimum five(5) years recent experience in a leadership and/or management position with responsibilities related to program planning, evaluation, human resource and financial management within a unionized environment
• Master's Degree or Leadership certificatean asset
• Experience developing and facilitating strategies consistent with the principles of Organizational Health
• Demonstrated proficiency in program planning, financial and human resource management, oral and written communication and interpersonal effectiveness
• Excellent leadership, organizational, analytical, problem solving, conflict resolution, negotiation, strategic thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to successfully change, adapt, overcome, and cope with unexpected challenges
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strategic partnerships and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners across the healthcare continuum
• Demonstrated commitment to employee and self-development and continuous quality improvement
• Proficiency with computer applications including Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, internet, email, and the ability to utilize health information systems for decision support
• Travel may be required
• 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 Full-time Position; 75 hours bi-weekly
• Approximately 12 months

Compensation and Benefits

$46.36 - $61.60 Hourly

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.

This is a Management/Non Unionbargaining unitposition. 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.

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.