• Job Description

  Req#: 163100

  Req ID: 163100
  Company: Nova Scotia Health
  Location: Provincial Zone, Flexible within the Province of NS
  Department: PH SSP Health Protection
  Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
  Status: NSGEU Admin Professionals Position
  Posting Closing Date: 29-Aug-23

  
  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 Public Health Emergency Preparedness Program Officer reports to the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Consultant in the Science and Systems Performance Team and is responsible for the planning, coordination, policy development, and project management of Public Health Emergency Program within NSHA. This includes collaboration with project team members, analyzing issues/programs from a policy perspective and performing, coordinating, and overseeing project-development.

  The position is responsible for:

  • Providing expert level advice, evidence and best practice on public health emergency planning and response, communications planning, and business continuity planning
  • Managing projects and coordinating teams working on a specific content issue.
  • Knowledge translation by retrieving, assessing and synthesizing complex research findings.
  • Developing policy, training programs, and writing public health emergency response plans such as outbreak response plans, mass immunization plans and business continuity planning
  • Develops and delivers public health emergency preparedness training programs and exercises to promote a culture of emergency preparedness within public health and continuous quality improvement
  • Engages and influences key stakeholders in the development of emergency preparedness activities through developing relationships with government, non-governmental organizations and communities.
  • Collaborates with internal and external partners to develop communication plans to support public health emergency preparedness and responses
  • Represents public health on identified committees, teams or groups as required

  This position can be a combination of work from home/work from Public Health Office

  About You

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

  • Masters in public health, health promotion or other relevant field with 3 years relevant experience or Baccalaureate degree in health promotion, sociology or other relevant field with 5 years relevant experience
  • Demonstrated knowledge of oppression as a social determinant of health, awareness and study of one’s own power and privilege and, appropriate public health approaches to reduce health inequities.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders; expertise in developing and providing training
  • Demonstrated success in building strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners to support health equity work.
  • Demonstrated judgment, decision making, and problem solving skills
  • Demonstrated project management, planning and time management skills. Ability to work flexibly and with competing priorities.
  • Demonstrated and strong group facilitation and process skills.
  • Demonstrated experience in evidence informed practice, conducting rapid evidence reviews and producing evidence briefs.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in LEADS
  • Demonstrated innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities
  • Demonstrated high standards of ethics, integrity, respect and accountability
  • Training in public health emergency management (incident management systems, incident command system, basic emergency management, exercise design)
  • Strong computer skills required
  • Action oriented and strong ability to complete time sensitive tasks
  • Competencies in other languages an asset; French preferred

  PLEASE NOTE: Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application. Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

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

  Hours

  • Permanent full-time position; 70 hours bi-weekly

  Compensation and Incentives

  $34.96 - $42.58 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.

  This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. 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.

  Preferred candidates must be able to demonstrate proof of primary series of COVID -19 vaccine at time of hire.

  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.

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• About the company

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

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