Assistant Manager - Health Information Services

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Req ID: 159716
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Western Zone, Valley Regional Hospital
Department: IMIT HIS Admitting & Registration AVH
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT ( 100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: MGMT/NON-Union Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 4-Jul-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.
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About The Opportunity
The Assistant Manager works with the Manager to support HIS strategies and operational plans to ensure consistency with legislation, accountability frameworks and the mission, vision and values of the organization. They contribute to the design and development of comprehensive health information services policies and organizational performance strategies to support the effective, efficient and sustainable delivery of services and programs.
Reporting to the Manager of Admitting/Registration/Health Records and Switchboard, the Assistant Manager provides day to day leadership and coordination for workforce operations within their area of responsibility. They are accountable to assist in policies and processes, based on best/leading practice, related to functional operations.
The HIS Admitting & Registration, Health Records and Switchboard portfolios will include admission and registration of all patient visits associated with the provision of clinical a care within all sites of the NSHA, Admitting process registration, transfers, discharges, generate health record for each episode of care, bed utilization, auditing/monitoring of specified registration fields, training new users on systems related to patient chart management/registration.
Specific Functional Areas Of Responsibility Include

• Planning, scheduling, coaching and supervising staff, monitoring daily work flow and the execution of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with standards across the organization
• Oversight of all functional areas, auditing, and reporting related to health records and admitting/registration for all NSH services
• Employee, manager, and partner relationship management
• Understanding and acquiring the knowledge to perform departmental functions such as patient registration, systems application, electronic record management, data quality functions, release of information and safety audits as required in investigation of customer service issue resolution

Travel to various sites may be required
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships and interact with all clients in scope
• Demonstrated experience in and knowledge of policy and procedure development and implementation, and project management
• Microsoft Office-Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook expertise
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
• Minimum 3-5 years recent leadership experience is a large health care facility
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and decision making skills
• Data quality coordination experience, experience investigating suspect data entry errors or omissions an asset
• Bachelor’s degree in health information management, or Diploma in Health Information with 3-5 years of health information management experience
• Current certification with the Canadian College of Health Information Management and membership with the Canadian Health Information Management Association (CHIMA)
• Experience with health information management in an organization of significant size and/or complexity is required (consideration may be given to those with equivalent training and work experience) (Minimum of 2 years)
• High level of competence in both written and verbal communication
• CHA Modern Management (Departmental Management) certificate or equivalent experience considered an asset

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 Incentives
$32.01 - $40.02 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.
This is a Management/Non Union 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.
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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