Vice President - Operations Central Zone

About the Opportunity

• Ensuring the effective, integrated, coordinated, and seamless delivery of ambulatory, community, acute, and continuing care within the Zone, and across the provincial health system.
• Leading the development and successful implementation of integrated Zone plans that align with Nova Scotia Health's vision, values, goals, and strategic priorities.
• Managing the Zone's financial, human, and capital resources effectively and responsibly.
• Building, nurturing, and facilitating the relationships necessary to collaborate effectively with diverse internal and external stakeholder groups.

Accountabilities

Strategic Leadership

• Contributes to the development, implementation, and evaluation of Nova Scotia Health’s strategic and operational plans to support integrated, patient-focused care across Zones.
• Ensures health services and activities align with Nova Scotia Health’s strategic objectives, clinical policies and quality standards.
• Provides senior clinical leadership and advocacy for major infrastructure projects impacting service delivery.
• Promotes collaboration and resource-sharing across Zones to support safe, effective and consistent patient care.
• Builds strong relationships with executive and senior clinical/business leaders and identifies issues with province-wide impact.
• Champions innovation, integration and continuous improvement in patient-focused care.

Zone Operational Leadership

• Provides day-to-day executive leadership and oversight of Zone programs, services and activities in partnership with the Zone Medical Lead through the dyad model
• Develops Zone plans, priorities and performance agreements and drives achievement of service, quality and performance outcomes.
• Ensures effective integration of Zone programs and services with other Zones and provincial services.
• Develops and manages the Zone’s multi-million-dollar operating budget, including prioritizing resources, addressing unmet needs and communicating financial decisions.
• Oversees physical resources, facilities, capital planning, functional planning and space planning.
• Establishes performance management and accountability systems to monitor and improve Zone performance.
• Represents the Zone internally and externally and builds relationships with key stakeholders and community organizations.

People, Workforce & Organizational Leadership

• Develops staff through professional development, collaboration, and effective workforce utilization.
• Leads and manages unionized, management, and exempt employees across multidisciplinary health and administrative functions in a 24/7 operating environment.
• Provides leadership for health service contracts, assigned provincial programs, and embedded corporate/non-clinical services.
• Ensures effective staff, physician, practitioner, volunteer, and stakeholder communication and engagement.
• Models and integrates the dyad leadership model to support accessible, high-quality, and sustainable patient care.
• Provides oversight of the health facilities leadership function, ensuring appropriate 24/7 responsiveness and readiness.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• A minimum of a master’s level preparation in Health, Business, or Public Administration, or a related program is required.
• Post-secondary education in a health discipline is preferred.  Equivalencies of education and experience will be considered.
• Certified Health Executive (CHE) is considered an asset.
• Senior experience in health care, including community-based care and/or population health.
• Successful record of achievement as a leader, including extensive experience in improvement and innovation in service delivery in a large and diverse range of health functions.
• Strong project management and operational acumen, with demonstrated skills related to systems planning, project execution, system performance and monitoring.
• Adept problem solver, results-driven, with a focus on details and issues management.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, with tact and diplomacy, and ability to navigate complex relationships with multiple stakeholders to achieve objectives.
• Strong human resource and financial planning experience and competencies, with experience in resource management, budgets and long-term financial planning.
• Ability to exercise initiative and vision, be resourceful, work independently, work cooperatively, adapt easily to changes in direction and to provide effective leadership.
• Experience engaging, mentoring, and empowering teams and stakeholders in a collaborative, participative manner to respond to the mission, vision, goals, and objectives.

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

Pay Scale Type: Executive
Band: VP (level 4)
Hourly Rate: $128.21 - $160.27
Annual Salary: $250,016 - $312,519

Successful candidates may be eligible for a comprehensive benefits package, which includes health, dental, and travel insurance; long-term disability and life insurance coverage; and a defined benefit pension plan. Additional wellness, development and employee support programs may also be available.