Health Services Manager - Perioperative Services

Nova Scotia Health Authority; Town of Bridgewater; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health authority in Nova Scotia seeks a Health Services Manager for the South Shore Regional Hospital. This temporary full-time role involves managing perioperative services and requires significant decision-making and collaboration skills. The ideal candidate will possess a Baccalaureate degree in a health discipline along with relevant clinical experience and leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of relevant clinical experience required.
• Must be registered with the professional college or eligible for registration.
• Demonstrated knowledge of publicly funded healthcare trends.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate daily operations within the PACU.
• Engage interdisciplinary teams to address key clinical practices.
• Lead process design and redesign initiatives for departmental improvement.

Skills

Analytical decision making

Change management knowledge

Team building skills

Education

Baccalaureate Degree in Health Discipline

Masters in Nursing, Health Services Administration or Business Administration

Job description

Click here to apply as an internal applicant.

Req ID: 204268
Location: Western Zone,South Shore Regional Hospital
Department: OPWZ PERI Operating Room SSRH
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% ) x 1
Management/Non Union P osition
Posting Closing Date: 12-Jun-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.

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Responsibilities

Reporting to the Health Services Director of Perioperative Services, the Health Services Manager is responsible for the management, planning and coordination within the PACU, including daily operations of people-centred programs within and external to the Nova Scotia Health (NSH).

This role requires a high degree of decision making, change management, team building and collaboration skills. Responsibilities include process design and redesign initiatives related to improvement activities in the department.

Working in a co-leadership model, the Health Services Manager is also responsible for working with physician co-leads of the areas required to engage the interdisciplinary team to address key clinical practices and utilization management/patient flow 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 behaviors.

This position also requires a high degree of initiative and change leadershifting ability. The ability to travel freely in the zone is required.

Qualifications

•Baccalaureate Degree in Health Discipline
•Masters in Nursing, Health Services Administration or Business Administration is preferred
•Must be registered with the professional college of relevant health discipline or eligible for registration
•Five to seven years of relevant clinical experience is required
•Previous Perioperative/PeriAnaesthesia experience preferred
•CHE certification is an asset
•Previous leadership/management experience an asset
•Demonstrates analytical, independent and creative decision making
•Demonstrates high degrees of self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills
•Experience and expertise in process planning and redesign work
•Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of issues and trends impacting the publicly funded health care system, nationally and internationally
•Demonstrates the leadership capabilities that encompass the LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework
•Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
•Successful Applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment

PLEASE NOTE: Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must clearly state such equivalencies in their cover letter, resume, or application. Additionally, candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

Hours of Work

• Long assignment, Full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
• Approximately 12 months (assignemnt lenght is subject to change)

Compensation and Benefits

$46.36 - $61.60 hourly

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.