Team Lead - Hants Health & Wellness Team - Primary Health Care

Req ID: 160789
Company: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Central Zone, Hants Community Hospital
Department: PHC CZ WH CDW HHWT
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: NSGEU Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 27-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.
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
The Hants Health and Wellness Team (HHWT) is a community based, integrated chronic disease prevention and management service that provides wellness programming and navigation, chronic disease management, nutrition education and complex care. The HHWT is an interdisciplinary team that builds community connections and partnerships to provide programs and services that are responsive to community needs. Principles of patient-centred care, behaviour change and self-management are core to all programming and services.
The Team Lead will report to the Health Service Manager, Primary Health Care, and will be responsible for development, implementation and coordination of HHWT programs and service. This includes triage of referrals, monitoring patient flow, scheduling and supporting a variety of quality improvement and evaluation activities.
This individual acts as a role model and exhibits team building and leadership skills. The Team Lead demonstrates effective communication and organizational skills, works with an interdisciplinary team and collaborates with colleagues to determine team goals and objectives, participates in the evaluation of team effectiveness, solves problems, and shares responsibilities. Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills are required.
About You

• Problem solving ability and willingness to considered uncharted or novel ideas related to trends in healthcare
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, colleagues, management and community agencies
• Coaching ability and diplomacy when dealing with co-workers, clients and community members
• Understanding of population health, health promotion strategies, chronic disease prevention and management and behaviour change principles is an asset
• Previous experience in team development and leadership working within a collaborative interdisciplinary practice
• Baccalaureate degree in Human Nutrition, occupational therapist, social work, Nursing or Physiotherapy,
• Experience in community development and working with people living with a chronic condition is preferred
• Valid Nova Scotia Driver's License and access to a reliable vehicle
• Registered member in good standing with a relevant health discipline college/association required
• Certified Diabetes Educator, or able to obtain within **2 years of being employed in a Hants Health and Wellness Team - If applying as registered Nurse or Dietitian
• Experience working in a Primary Health Care setting/community-based team required
• Travel within the West Hants Community is required.
• Required travel in the community
• Individual and group education/facilitation skills utilizing adult education, self-management support and/or motivational enhancement principles
• Five years’ clinical experience required (with clinical experience in the last year working with individual and/or group patient education)

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

• Shifts may include evenings, weekends and holiday s.
• Full-time long assignment ;75 hours biweekly
• Approximately 14 months

Compensation and Incentives
$37.88 - $ 46.12 Hourly
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 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.
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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