Coordinator Of Cancer Care/Palliative Care Volunteers

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Req ID: 154879
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Central Zone, Victoria Building - QEII
Department: PS Volunteer Services
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT ( 100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: NSGEU Admin Professionals Position
Posting Closing Date: 2-May-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
Reporting to the Manager of Volunteer Services, this role is responsible for the development and maintenance of the programs and services component within the Palliative and Cancer Care programs including, but not limited to the Sunshine Room, Palliative Care Unit and Ambulatory Oncology Clinics. This job includes recruitment, screening, training, orienting of new volunteers, developing and maintaining specific volunteer roles throughout the program and providing recognition and ongoing feedback to volunteers. The job assumes other responsibilities, notably coordinating the Volunteer Training Program. The job is also responsible for liaising and working with other managers of palliative care volunteers locally and throughout the province. As part of the Cancer Care team, the coordinator of volunteers sits on the numerous committees and assumes other responsibilities on the team.
The coordinator is responsible for exploring new opportunities to enhance the role of volunteers in the patient experience. By working with operational managers, the coordinator will develop, implement and sustain volunteer roles across the Cancer Care Portfolio. The coordinator will link with community partners to support and enhance the role of volunteers with the goal of improving the patient/family/caregiver experience.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Effective organizational and communication skills
• Minimum one year relevant experience
• Volunteer management an asset
• Competencies in other languages an asset; French preferred
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills
• Project development and implementation experience an asset
• Demonstrated Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint), email and internet
• Successful completion of a Social Science degree
• Ability to function independently and as part of a team and be able to establish priorities
• Knowledge of Palliative Care and Cancer Care an asset
• Experience and knowledge of community development principles of community development, principles of community health, education theory and practice group dynamics preferred
• Effective interpersonal, communication and teaching skills

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours
Permanent Full-time position; 75 hours biweekly
Compensation and Incentives
$27.02 - $30.62 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 Admin Professionals 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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