Primary Health Care Coordinator - Primary Health Care

Req ID: 162324
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Western Zone, Various Locations
Department: Primary Health Care
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100% FTE) x 6 position(s)
Status: CUPE Admin Professionals Position
Posting Closing Date: 18-Aug-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 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 www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.
About The Opportunity
Reporting to the Primary Health Care Manager, the Primary Health Care (PHC) Coordinator will provide support to advance the strategic priorities in the Primary Health Care, Chronic Disease Management and Wellness and Department of Family Practice portfolio. The PHC Coordinator role will be focused on supporting, reporting, optimization, efficiency and have responsibility to lead the planning, ongoing development, implementation and evaluation of services and project initiatives.
The incumbent works closely with Primary Health Care leadership, providers, teams and stakeholders across the Western Zone to ensure zonal support for planning, coordination, facilitation, and evaluation of PHC projects/initiatives. The PHC Coordinator is responsible for developing and maintaining strong working relationships with health care staff, provincial and other Zonal and NSH departments, external individuals and partner agencies.
The Primary Health Care Coordinator will work collaboratively with family physicians and other health care providers and teams to support quality improvement and change management strategies that are inherent in the services plan for primary health care.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Demonstrated high degree of independent decision making, self-direction, motivation and team building/leadership skills
• Current registration with professional association is an asset
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
• Organizational and project management skills
• Efficient in PHC Electronic Medical Records (Telus Med Access and/or QHR Accuro), Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook – smartsheets an asset
• Experience in change management strategies, and quality improvement is an asset
• Baccalaureate degree preferably from a health discipline/health related science.
• Experience working in a family practice setting with family physicians an asset
• Two years' of recent related experience

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.
Hours

• Six (6) Permanent full-time position; 75 hours bi-weekly.
• Shifts are flexible depending on needs of the program, evenings and weekends included.
• Travel to various sites will be required (significant portion of the position)
• Location will be determined based on the successful candidate within Western Zone.

Compensation and Incentives
$30.30 - $36.78 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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