Req ID: 151788
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Provincial Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII
Department: Health Transformation Office
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 5-Apr-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 an 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.
The Health Transformation Office was established in April 2022 to work with and support health system partners to deliver on government’s strategic plan: Action for Health. In particular, the office is focused on helping ensure implementation of a set of priority initiatives that are foundational to the transformation of Nova Scotia’s healthcare system.
The Health Transformation Office is jointly led by Nova Scotia Health and the Department of Health and Wellness (DHW), and works with partners within Nova Scotia Health, IWK Health, Emergency Health Services (EHS), Department of Seniors and Long-Term Care (SLTC), Office of Addictions and Mental Health (OAMH), and Office of Healthcare Professionals Recruitment (OHPR) and other related government departments, to coordinate and collaborate across the health system to:
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Support leaders in creating a more ready, reliable, and responsive heath system
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Be a source of truth on transformation and ensure transparency across the system
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Bring system-wide focus to transformation priorities
- Improve coordination across transformation initiatives
- Work with initiative leaders and sponsors to identify initiative acceleration opportunities (e.g., sprints)
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Coordinate resources and funding required for initiative success
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Support health system culture change
- Help ensure system leaders have the capabilities to sustain transformational change
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Ensure change management is integrated in all efforts
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Coordinate consistent, clear communication about transformation
Reporting to the Senior Director, Health Transformation; the Senior Delivery Executive Advisor (Delivery Advisor), is the primary lead and strategic advisor on strategic initiatives that will help to transform Nova Scotia’s healthcare system. These initiatives are priorities outlined in Action for Health, a four-year, system-wide, strategic plan to improve Nova Scotia’s health system. The priorities span the continuum of public health, primary healthcare, acute care, surgical, continuing care, mental health and addictions, and emergency health services as well as system wide-focus on access and flow, equity, health system workforce, digital solutions and OPOR, infrastructure and accountability. The Delivery Advisor provides system leadership to strategically plan for and influence a health system culture shift and establishes leading practices and support for system leadership capability building, to enable, spread and sustain health transformation benefits for Nova Scotians.
The Delivery Advisor acts as an advisory support to strategic initiatives; helps to manage and monitor the overall transformation roadmap to facilitate coordinated progress toward system goals. As an Advisor to initiatives, the Delivery Advisor coordinates with initiative leaders and system leaders to monitor and assess initiative progress, reinforcing accountability and setting transformation expectations by maintaining standard reporting and evaluation mechanisms; works closely with initiatives leaders to ensure initiatives remain on track, flag emerging issues within portfolio of initiatives to diagnose and assess risks and develop resolution recommendations or mitigations. The Delivery Advisor provides leadership and strategic advice and specialized subject matter expertise, as applicable, to augment delivery capacity and supports initiative course correction by providing ad hoc decision support and resource management support, building the case for additional resources as needed and other acceleration needs to increase pace.
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
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Masters Level Degree completed or presently enrolled to be completed within 2 years in health-related discipline, health administration, business administration or related subject.
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Equivalent experience and/or alternative education may be considered.
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Registration with relevant health or professional discipline/college or association.
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Minimum of seven years of relevant senior leadership experience with progressive accountabilities for financial, strategic and people management to deliver high quality services.
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Excellent leadership, organizational and decision-making skills in support of patient, family and client centred services.
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Expert knowledge to critically analyse evidence-based practices to inform strategy development and organizational planning.
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Experience and expertise in health service planning.
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Expertise in business planning, strategic planning and systems thinking.
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Evidence-based collaborative problem solving of complex multifaceted issues.
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Understands the principles of project management and demonstrated ability to lead complex work teams.
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Expertise in leading complex change.
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Quality improvement methodologies. (e.g., LEAN, Model for Improvement)
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Demonstrated advanced interpersonal, communications and team building skills.
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Collaboration, negotiation, and persuasion skills are paramount as this role requires the input of internal and external stakeholders.
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Cultural competence.
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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.
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Long assignment, Full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly
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Approximately 15 months
$53.42 - $66.77Hourly
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.
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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