Patient Flow Coordinator - Access and Flow

Req ID: 191846
Location: Western Zone, Valley Regional Hospital 
Department: OPWZ Patient Flow
Type of Employment: Casual Hourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1 
Nursing Position
Posting Closing Date: 29-Dec-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 Western Zone Patient Flow Manager, the Patient Flow Coordinator is responsible for identifying opportunities for improvement in advancing patient care plans which support timely discharge, patient flow and resource utilization throughout the Western Zone using the Bed Utilization Management System Software.

The Patient Flow Coordinator ensures that the principles and practices that guide Nova Scotia Health such as the mission, vision, values, expected behaviours, leadership philosophy, organizational health, population health, ethics, safety, quality, partnerships and inter professional collaboration are integrated within the services they provide and through the messages they deliver, including:

• Promote the use of software program for bed utilization according to established guidelines and policies
• Liaise with Western Zone Patient Flow Manager and physician leaders as required and communicate identified processes and/or issues impeding patient flow
• Lead for training and quality of the software system across Western Zone inpatient units
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to utilize their data and advance the plan of care for each patient, including assisting the team to meet the expected LOS targets and ensuring that a discharge plan is in place
• Assist to identify opportunities for improvement in resource utilization and patient flow
• Work with teams to ensure that wherever possible patients are in the right bed to support their care needs and advance the plan of care

About You

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

• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred
• Current or eligible for registration with the Nova Scotia College of Nursing
• Certification and/or experience in the use of information technology, the analysis and presentation of data and adult education
• Minimum of five years' of recent acute care experience
• Demonstrated minimum of one year experience in clinical utilization
• Demonstrated leadership abilities
• Demonstrated accountability
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem solving, judgement and decision-making skills
• Strong client focus and ability to build solid client/practitioner relationships
• Demonstrated collaboration and teamwork skills
• Demonstrated planning, organizational, prioritizing and time management skills
• 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

•  Full-time Long Assignment position; 75 hours bi-weekly
• Approximately 12 months
• Successful applicant may be required to work flexible hours including days, evenings and weekends

Compensation and Benefits

$41.58 - $51.11 hourly
$52.90 with 25 years' RN experience

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 Nursing 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.

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.