Job Description

xe2x80x8bReq ID: 193674
Location: Central Zone, Integrated Chronic Care Service
Department: PHC CZ CDW ICCS
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
NSGEU Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 30-Dec-24Nova 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 to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.About the OpportunityPlease note: This position requires the successful incumbent to strictly adhere to Integrated Chronic Care Services (ICCS) scent-free free policy.Reporting to the Health Services Manager, Primary Health Care, the Interdisciplinary Clinical Leader provides leadership, innovation and support to the clinical team in the provision of interdisciplinary, collaborative, person-centred care to patients with a focus on functional health. The Interdisciplinary Clinical Leader works closely with patients and families, team members (physicians, psychologists/clinical therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, nurses, office staff) family physicians, community organizations, primary, secondary and tertiary health services, to promote person-centered collaborative care within the Primary Health Care portfolio.The incumbent develops and fosters a healthy interdisciplinary team processes that develop a person and family centered continuum of care focused on functional health goals, building relationships with community based services ensuring practice is interdisciplinary and evidence based, program planning and evaluation, participating in the recruitment, selection and orientation of new team members, supporting a quality approach to care delivery, coordinating and providing clinical care to patients.About YouWe would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years' related experience or Master's plus 3 years' related experience
• Licensed with the respective Nova Scotia regulatory college
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Experience working with people who have complex chronic health conditions and pain
• Experience with behaviour change counselling and self-management support
• Experience with leadership of multidisciplinary clinical teams
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work as a team and to prioritize while under pressure for deadlines
• Excellent research and program evaluation skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products
• Familiarity with primary care electronic medical record preferred
• 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
• Shifts may include evenings, weekends and holidays.

Compensation and Benefits$40.19- $48.94 hourlySuccessful 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 AppliedThank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.xe2x80x8bThis is a Healthcare 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.

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