Manager - Library Services
Req ID: 217058
Location: Central Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII
Department: IPPL Library Services
Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT (100%) x 1
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 30-Mar-26
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.
About the Opportunity
Reporting to the Senior Director of Interprofessional Practice & Learning (IPPL), the Manager of Provincial Library Services facilitates access to integrated knowledge and information resources to support provision of evidence-informed decision-making, patient care, patient/family learning, research and education. They are responsible for the effective management of staff and resources across all sites. The manager is accountable for the development of effective partnerships with the IWK, universities/colleges and public library systems to ensure that NSH library services forms mutually beneficial partnerships where possible and works collaboratively with learners, staff, patients and the public.
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Masters of Library and Information Studies from an ALA-accredited program required
- Academy of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) certified required
- Minimum of 5-7 years’ recent and related experience in progressively responsible positions involved in planning and delivering comprehensive library services within a complex, integrated service model provided throughout several locations with multiple partners and stakeholders required
- Management experience and knowledge of all aspects of library services within the teaching hospital environment.
- Sound knowledge of and experience with library systems including inMagic, Docline, Quickdoc, EZProxy and LibGuides
- Knowledge and understanding of LEADS in a Caring Environment.
- Experience in engaging, mentoring and empowering teams and stakeholders in a collaborative, participative manner to respond to the mission, vision, goals and objectives of the organization.
- Experience managing vendor/publisher negotiations and contracts
- Experience working with procurement and finance systems
- Demonstrated knowledge of policy development and impact
- Knowledge of health care organizations and the health sector
- Exceptional interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships and interact with clients
- Ability to build engagement among peers and business leaders to support new strategies and change management
- High level of competence in both written and verbal communication
- Experience working with diversity of staff and stakeholders
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
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 Benefits
$44.86 - $56.07 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.
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.
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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