Director - Clinical Networks

 Req ID: 192484
Location: Provincial Zone, All Locations 
Department: CNS Network Transformation-Int CDM
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1 
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 8-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 Senior Director, Clinical Networks and in collaboration with the Senior Medical Director, Primary Health Care and Chronic Disease Management Network, the Director provides leadership in the design of a provincially integrated care model and in the development of implementation and operational plans that support excellence in care delivery, improvement in health outcomes, and achievement of standards of care established by the Department and NS Health.

Working with medical co-leads and closely with Executive and Zone Leadership and Research and Innovation, and Department of Health and Wellness, the Director is part of the Primary Health Care and Chronic Disease Management Network with a provincial scope and mandate that influence and help drive the achievement of targeted, measurable, and sustainable clinical and operational improvements in health and health care service delivery. The Director is responsible for providing direction and leadership regarding the provincial implementation of multiple NSH programs and initiatives that support operational improvement of primary healthcare and chronic disease management through core functions which include:

• Strategy and Planning: Ongoing strategic planning with system partners and monitoring of system performance
• System Design and Integration: The design, management and operational oversight of sponsored provincial policy, planning and implementation support functions and processes, and the integration of new models of care:
  • Policy and standards development and transition management
  • Transformation initiative financial and operational oversight
  • Program and operational performance tracking reporting
  • Decision Support – information management and analysis
• Clinical Excellence: Support the PHC system to deliver safe, high-quality clinical care through standards, guidelines, care directives and other supports.
• Capacity Building and Practice Support: Build a healthy workforce to enable teams to provide person-centered, comprehensive and coordinated services based on population needs

About the Opportunity (cont.)

• Communication and Collaboration:
  • Establish structures to enable coalition building, to enable partners to work together towards a common vision of seamless service, while ensuring patients, family members and public advisors and other partnersare engaged in network activities
  • Communicate broadly about PHC-CDM Network activities and system performance
• Quality and System Performance: The quality and production of:
  • Regular operational reports;
  • Quarterly progress/performance reports;
  • Briefing notes and Books;
  • Annual Provincial Plan;
  • Research and analysis;
  • Provincial Policy / Process / KPI / Target recommendations;
  • Strategic project implementation plans
• Overseeing the ongoing development and effective operation and delivery of assigned PHC-CDM program(s)in addition to multiple other strategies and initiatives.
• The management of:
  • Budget and operation of network and oversight of transformation budget
  • Information/data, measurement and reporting
  • Provincial / strategic projects (including policy) and implementation efforts
  • Multiple service provider contracts for strategic initiatives and sub-contracted services

As a leader within the clinical network, the Director will work with others, ensuring there is a strategic, provincial approach to align services, initiatives, and planning across all zones and provincial programs and government departments to ensure consistency, coordination, quality, efficiency, and system sustainability.

Please note: The primary area of focus for this Director within the PHC-CDM Clinical Network will be for Integrated Chronic Disease Management and Wellness and related transformation initiatives.

About You

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

• We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
• Master’s Degree in a health-related discipline, health administration, business administration or related subject
• Eligible for registration with relevant health discipline/college or association
• 5-7 years of relevant leadership experience with progressive accountabilities for strategy, planning and quality management within the program area
• Excellent leadership, relationship building, organizational and decision skills in support of patient, family and client centered services
• Ability to build and maintain collaborative working relationships and partnerships with stakeholders
• Expertise in operational and financial planning
• Understands the principles of project management and demonstrated ability to create and lead complex work teams
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills that are responsive to audience needs
• Demonstrated advanced communications skills/positive energetic public persona
• Cultural competence
• Collaboration, negotiation and persuasion skills are paramount as this role requires the engagement of internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to analyze and interpret statistical data and monitor quality and performance indicators and benchmarks
• Possesses a sound knowledge of management and a working knowledge of information systems
• 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

• Permanent, Full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
• The location for this position is flexible within the province
• Hours of work may include evenings, weekends and on-call
• Travel throughout the province will be required

Compensation and Benefits

$56.95 - $75.67 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.

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.