Manager - Nursing Practice and Clinical Supports - Halifax, Canada - IWK Health Centre

IWK Health Centre

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Halifax, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Company :

IWK Health**:

Req ID:159427

Department/Program:
Nursing Practice and Clinical Supports, Interprofessional Practice

Location:
Halifax

Type of Employment:
Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)

Start Date: 07/02/2023

Union Status:
Management, Management/Non Union Bargaining Unit

Compensation:
$46.5318**:

- **$ /hour

Closing Date:
June 22, 2023 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region.

We have a team of approximately 4000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other's talent and celebrate our successes.

We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs.

We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Director of Professional Practice, the Manager is responsible for leadership and operation of the Nursing Practice and Clinical Supports and effectively leading policy initiatives, and nursing practice as well as participate in interdisciplinary consults and development.

Responsibilities of this role include but are not limited to human resource management, fiscal management, professional/staff development, leadership, quality service delivery and program service development.

Essential components of this position include a high degree of evidence based decision-making, creativity, interpersonal skills, self direction, initiative, critical thinking, professional development and informational roles to perform a wide variety of technical, human, conceptual, leadership and financial management functions and behaviors.

Ensures teams/staff work within the Family Centered Care Model and the Mandate/Vision of the IWK Health Centre to achieve positive patient outcomes.
Works with interdisciplinary care teams to identify and prioritize service delivery based on population needs of the patients/families.
Manages the development, implementation and maintenance of an active human resource plan including recruitment, selection, interviewing, hiring, orientation and retention of appropriate staff complement.
Takes a lead role in the performance management process for all staff within the portfolio including attendance.
Applies the collective agreements and nonunion agreements and establishes/maintains staffing guidelines that are consistent with operational needs and contractual requirements.
Develops, prepares, submits and administers operational and capital budgets and collaborates with Director with the budget process.
Monitors financial information and analyzes utilization of resources, relevant financial and clinical data to identify trends and opportunities.
Provides leadership and direction to staff to ensure the goals and objectives of the service/program are continually met.
Promotes and enables an environment that supports and encourages research to support evidencebased practice and professional development.
Manages and enhances communications within team/service/departments by providing ongoing leadership and direction to staff, patients, physicians, and volunteers as required.
Leads the resolution of key clinical practice issues.
Leads ongoing change management to ensure successful changes are made within the organization that support the achievement of goals and objectives
Collaborates with other Managers to lead and/or participate in centre wide initiatives
Works in collaboration with Improvement Consultant and ensures that quality improvement and risk management activities are coordinated in an efficient and effective manner.
Leads the development of the service planning for the portfolio, in collaboration with the Director.

Hours of Work:

Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours weekly, On-Call based on rotational schedule

Your Qualifications:

Master's Degree required, (In progress will be considered).
Current registration with relevant health discipline college/association.
Minimum five (5) years in a clinical role plus two (2) years related management/leadership experience.
Previous experience in a complex healthcare organization preferred.
Demonstrated excellent leadership and team building skills required.
Demonstrates understanding of and commitment to patient and family centered care. Demonstrated understanding of diversity, inclusion and cultural competence.
Demonstrated high degree of independent decisionmaking, creativity, selfdirection, motivation, change management knowledge, and team building/leadership skill