Program Manager, Nursing Placements

at  Nova Scotia Health Authority

Req ID: 194990
Location: Provincial Zone, All Locations
Department: IPPL Acc Enhancing Clin Placement CNS
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 21-Jan-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.

Specific functional areas of responsibility include:

• Staff orientation and performance management
• Transition to practice; and learner and practice progression models
• Management of targeted funding for education programs and initiatives
• Management of the Student Learner Placement team – 11 coordinators, 1 IT specialist, 1 secretary (payroll, absences, performance) and works with the team’s Professional Practice Leaders to support the team’s role of coordinating the placement of students and learners into departments across all zones of Nova Scotia Health for unpaid work terms and clinical placements/ experience.
• Strategic management in supporting nursing placements, including escalating the need for additionalplacements that are not filled according to standard processes to leadership
• Collaboration with operations leadership to understand barriers and opportunities for student placements withintheir zones and ensure placement process are efficient
• Collaboration with academic partners to review innovative models to support placements and educational institutions to ensure all students from a Nova Scotia nursing school are placed and can graduate as expected
• Collaborative partnership with Recruitment on the successful transition of nursing students to employment in Nova Scotia Health