• Job Description

  Req#: 188540

  Req ID: 188540
  Location: Provincial Zone, Flexible Within the Province of NS
  Department: PH SSP Early Years
  Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% ) x 1
  Management/Non Union P osition
  Posting Closing Date: 5-Oct-24

  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

  Reporting to the Director Science and System Performance, and working with the public health leadership team, the Manager, Early Years Nurse Family Partnership provides an expert level of clinical advice and strategic leadership to the planning, development, implementation, ongoing operation and evaluation of the Nurse Family Partership Program across Nova Scotia

  The position works with the public health leaders across the province, including but not limited to zone Early Years Managers and Consultants, Directors, Medical Health Officers, the Senior Directors ( Public Health program area managers, zone Directors, Senior Director) and other stakeholders to support effective implementation of the Nurse Family Partnership Program, maintaining program fidelity and integrity.

  The Manager sets conditions for the public health system to succeed in promoting population health, reducing health inequities, and supporting healthy development by developing key internal and external partnerships, leveraging resources, developing processes, measuring results and working collaboratively across zones, networks, communities and organizations.

  About You

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

  • Registered Nurse or Midwife
  • Master of Public Health, nursing or related field is preferred
  • Professional expertise in maternal and child public health, including home visiting
  • 3 years' experience in a leadership role
  • Experience in strategic leadership in the planning, development and evaluation of public health programs, services and initiatives based on community assessments, data and best practice models for the early years.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in the Core Competencies for Public Health
  • In depth knowledge of Public Health programs, practice including Nurse Family Partnership program
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods.
  • Demonstrated success in building strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners to support early years work.
  • Demonstrated judgment, decisions making, and problem-solving skills
  • Demonstrated experience and success in change management initiatives
  • Demonstrated planning, organization and time management skills

  About You Continued

  • Ability to deal with competing priorities
  • Innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities to support the health of children in the early years.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in LEADS
  • 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 team building, conflict resolution, goal setting, coaching, mentoring, delegation, change-leadership

  Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

  Hours

  • Permanent Full Time / 75 Hours Bi-weekly

  Compensation and Benefits

  $45.45 - $60.40 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. (Permanent Long Assignments Only)

  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.

• About the company

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

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