• Job Description

  Req#: 168038
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  Company : IWK Health

  Req ID: 168038
  Department/Program: Equity and Belonging, Interprofessional Practice
  Location: Halifax
  Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
  Start Date: ASAP
  Union Status: Non-union, Management/Non Union Bargaining Unit
  Compensation: $36.3327 - $45.4158 /hour
  Closing Date: November 13, 2023 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

  IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes. We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

  Promoting an anti-racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities across Nova Scotia, and more than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who also have a long, deep, and complex history dating back over 400 years. We have the highest percentage of people with disabilities in the country. Nova Scotia has the highest proportions of transgender and non-binary people than any other province or territory in the country. We are active in our work to eliminate discrimination, but have more work to do to build that trust, acknowledge our biases and reduce the barriers our diverse communities face. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.

  The Opportunity

  The African Nova Scotian Health Consultant (ANSHC) provides leadership and guidance to achieve and continuously improve culturally safe and appropriate health services for people of African Descent and African Nova Scotian communities. Essential to this end is enabling the development and support of a culturally competent, diverse, and inclusive workplace. The Consultant leads the planning and implementation of activities focused on cultural safety and liaises, facilitates connection with, and supports community leaders from African Nova Scotian communities within Nova Scotia, and across the Maritimes.

  The African Nova Scotian Health Consultant will work closely with program/portfolio colleagues to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate policies, programs, strategies, and activities with the aim of enhancing access to high-quality, culturally safe, and appropriate services for people of African descent to improve health outcomes and reduce inequities. They will also work across portfolios to ensure workplace policies and strategies support enhanced representation of people of African Descent in addition to supporting respectful and safe working environments.

  The ANSHC engages with Nova Scotia’s African Canadian communities and organizations serving people of African descent to understand and act on the improvement of health outcomes. Building on the existing network of partnership tables within the health sector as well as with community, government, academic, education, research, and business partners to incorporate promising practices in the development of resources and structures necessary to promote diversity in health and employment within IWK Health.

  The ANSHC will support diversity and social inclusion activities with IWK Health that are specific to Nova Scotia’s African Canadian communities and collaborate with other portfolios that support under-represented and/or diverse communities and work to address health inequities.

  Hours of Work

  Monday to Friday; 75 hours bi-weekly

  Your Qualifications

  • Undergraduate degree in Allied Health field, Public Administration, Health Services Administration, Business Administration, or relevant areas of study.
  • Five years of related experience or a master’s degree plus three years’ experience required.
  • Significant knowledge of, and connection to the population of African Descent across Nova Scotia and the Maritimes required.
  • Experience as a health professional is an asset.
  • Demonstrated commitment to social justice, cultural and structural competence, and initiatives dedicated to the welfare of people of African descent in Nova Scotia.
  • Demonstrated experience in project management, coordination, facilitation, and community engagement.
  • Strong writing skills with demonstrated competency writing synthesized literature reviews, policy analysis, briefing notes and reports.
  • Demonstrated planning, organization, and time management skills. Ability to deal with competing priorities.
  • Demonstrated critical thinking with demonstrated ability to assess and anticipate future needs, potential problems, directions, and development for all aspects of strategic, financial, and human resource management.
  • Strong communications skills and ability to develop and sustain coalitions, alliances, and partnerships with the members of the health care sector and external agencies. Community development experiences an asset.
  • Ability to communicate and build coalitions effectively with a wide variety of key-partner (s) using a variety of methods.
  • Innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with priority communities.
  • Demonstrated high standards of ethics, integrity, respect, accountability and upholding the public interest, and ability to use them effectively in decision-making.
  • Leadership skills consisting of building a vision, team building, conflict resolution, goal setting, coaching, mentoring, delegation, change-leadership.

  This position is designated for a person of African descent.

  Thank you for your interest in IWK Health.

  Please note that we only contact applicants selected for interview/testing. If we invite you to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) you have the right to request accommodation. Please discuss your needs when invited to the assessment process.

  This is a Management/Non Union bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. 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.

  An offer of employment is conditional upon the completion and satisfactory results of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials. Additionally, as per Nova Scotia’s COVID-19 Vaccine mandate, any offer of employment will be conditional upon submitting proof of full vaccination status. Medical exceptions or any other kind of requested exception based upon the Health Centre’s obligations pursuant to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Code will be considered on a case-by-case basis

  I f you are an employee of IWK Health, please apply through the internal careers page to ensure you are flagged as an internal applicant.

• About the company

  The Nova Scotia Health Authority is a provincial health authority serving Nova Scotia, Canada.

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