Quality and Project Manager - Emergency Department

 Req ID: 199390
Location: Central Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII 
Department: OPCZ Emergency CCH
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1 
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 4-Apr-25

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.

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About the Opportunity

The Quality and Project Manager focuses on the system and cultural changes required to fulfill and maintain quality performance across the CZ Emergency Department.  This includes both current and future health care needs involving collaboration with programs and zone leadership to ensure alignment with system level goals and resources. Using a systems approach and the CZ Quality Framework, the Quality and Project Manager works collaboratively with the CZ inpatient care leadership teams, staff and citizens and stakeholders to lead, support and foster a culture of people-centred care, safety, and performance excellence.  

The Project Manager will be a proactive and strategic thinker to implement projects and initiatives that achieve portfolio/organizational priorities and meet project timelines under the direction of the Director. This role will be responsible for coordination and implementation of existing initiatives, ensuring projects progress within set timeframes to achieve stated deliverables. This position will support multiple projects within Emergency Department, with a special focus on those projects that use data for quality improvement and system performance planning and reporting as well those initiatives which are overarching and zone/provincially set. 

Collaboration and communication are key to this role. The project manager will be working directly with emergency care providers, health system leaders, community partners and patients in designing, executing and evaluating implementation efforts. The ideal candidate will also possess strong skills in implementing system level quality improvement initiatives, in collaboration with provincial stakeholders as appropriate.

About You

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

• Graduate degree in a health specific related field and/or equivalent in education and experience
• Undergraduate degree in a health care profession - clinical background in emergency is preferred
• Project Management education program and/or equivalent education and experience
• Appropriate membership in profession organization
• CAPM certification preferred
• PMP certification preferred
• Minimum of 5 -7 years of relevant clinical experience required
• Minimum of 3 years leadership experience in a health care setting
• Experience in strategic planning, project management, program development, program evaluation or quality management principles
• Two years planning, evaluation or quality initiative experience in a health care environment including health care reengineering
• Experience working with formal leadership and front-line staff
• Experience working with health system data
• Demonstrated experience in data management, data analysis and statistical manipulation
• Quality improvement or related experience
• Superior change management, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate groups and present information at various levels
• Experience in the application of word processing, spreadsheet, database and graphics software
• 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

Compensation and Benefits

$40.15 - $50.19 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.