Req ID: 205146
Location: Eastern Zone, Flexible within the Zone
Department: Academic and Community Partnerships, IPPL
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 3-Jul-25
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.
The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team facilitates and advances person-centered care through evidence-based professional practice and learning strategies and programs that are designed provincially and implemented locally to enhance collaborative learning and practice. The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team takes a leadership role in creating a culture of collaboration with a focus on team-based care, evidence-informed practice, and learning and professional development to improve health outcomes for patients, families and communities. Through strong partnerships with the academic sector, regulators, and government, the Interprofessional Practice and Learning team has an integral role in influencing and operationalizing health system priorities.
Academic and Community Partnerships, a provincial IPPL team, works collaboratively with zone IPPL teams, operations teams including preceptors, across all zones as well as key external partners such as academic partners to provide support for learners, create a sense of belonging and to ensure quality learner experiences. Academic and Community Partnerships encourages innovative and unique processes related to learners and students to ensure continued excellence in quality person-centred care and practice.

• Collaborating with zone IPPL teams to provide leadership, advice, and guidance on the development of learning strategies across the unit, program, and organizational, applying adult learning principles and best practices
• Collaborating with clinical educators, councils, practice and organizational leaders in the development, implementation, and evaluation of effective transitions to practice, orientation, and continuing education programs and integrating application of evidence-informed practice standards in clinical learning environments.
• Creating and maintaining effective linkages and partnerships with regional/national partners and professional associations/organizations to remain current on issues impacting professional practice and patient care.
• Serving as a consultant to the organization with respect to interprofessional practice issues at the individual, team, program, and system level related to learners and students. The Learning Leader works with all members of the interprofessional team including physicians to promote evidence-based practice, reflecting best practices and a culture of patient-centred care.
• Provide solutions or encourage teams to consider innovative solutions to barriers encountered by operational teams and zone IPPL colleagues with regards to creating safe and welcoming spaces for learners and to ensure quality learner experiences.
• Professionally balance multiple time sensitive and uncertain priorities that involve many partners (internal and external). Support internal and external groups with new solutions where change may be difficult because a variety of competing priorities