Company Description

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 centers, 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.

Job Description

Nova Scotia Health (NSH) is seeking expressions of interest for the role of Site Specialty Lead for the Emergency Department at Roseway Hospital in the Western Zone

The Emergency Medicine Lead endeavors to ensure that a high standard of patient care is maintained by the medical staff of Emergency, in accordance with the law, the Bylaws, the Rules and Regulations, licensing and accreditation standards and the standards of academic institutions (where applicable).

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Western Zone, Roseway Hospital, Emergency Medicine Lead:

• Will ensure that the mission, vision and values of the NSHA are embodied in their leadership and will participate in the development and implementation of the NSHA corporate strategic plan and its implementation.
• Will develop regular and collaborative relationships with Zone Department Heads, other Medical Site Leads, Deputy/Division/Service Heads, and Health Service Directors and will act as a resource to the appropriate VP of Integrated Health Service.
• Will participate in the Roseway Hospital Clinical Affairs, M & M reviews, Roseway Hospital ED Ops committees, and/or other facility-based committees as required.
• Will develop and foster collaborative relationships with the Emergency Health Service Manager, Health Services Director and Hants Medical Site Lead for the safe and efficient functioning of the Department.
• Will ensure proper Emergency Medicine standards of care, as well as active participation in WZESC.
• The Western Zone, Roseway Hospital, Emergency Medicine Lead:
• Receives and acts, through appropriate channels, on all reports from the medical staff or administration with respect to situations which may adversely affect patient care in or at the hospital.
• Ensures that the Physician ED Staff are kept informed of changes in hospital policy, objectives, and regulation.
• Will participate in policy development as it pertains to their individual facility.
• Is responsible to work collaboratively with the Zone Department Heads to ensure the integration of departmental activities within their community/facility.
• Is responsible to work collaboratively with the Zone Department Heads in planning for the physician human resource needs unique to their community/facility. This will include the development of recruitment, selection, orientation and retention strategies.
• Is responsible to actively participate in the Zone process for credentialing and privileging of ED physician staff members at their facility.
• Is responsible for implementing and maintaining appropriate measures to ensure that the quality of services offered by all members of the ED Physician Staff is evaluated on a regular basis and those corrective actions are taken when problems are identified.
• Is responsible for monitoring practices of members of the Physician ED Staff to ensure compliance with the NSHA Medical Staff Bylaws, the Rules & Regulations and policies established by the Zone MAC and the Board.
• Will make every effort to ensure that there is appropriate physician coverage for the daily operations of the Roseway Hospital Emergency Department.
• Working through and with Zonal Department Heads, oversees the medical care given to patients presenting to the ED for care.
• Will report to the Medical Site Lead at Roseway Hospital for day-to-day issues regarding clinical/patient problems, communication breakdown and any problems that affect the ED and Roseway Hospital.
• Will report to the Zonal Department Head of ED regarding quality, WZESC, and overall ED zone planning.

Qualifications

• The Western Zone, Roseway Hospital, Emergency Medicine Lead must be an active member of a clinical department within the NSHA.
• Must be a credentialed physician with privileges at a site within the NSHA.
• Will undergo an annual performance review, and will do a performance appraisal on physicians within their department.
• Will maintain their clinical activity as well as their commitment to support teaching and research.

Additional Information

Community Details

Conveniently located an hour from the Yarmouth Ferry and just two hours from Halifax, on Nova Scotia’s beautiful South Shore, the Town of Shelburne is a unique, rural community with a lot to experience.

Our Municipality offers lighthouses, rugged coastlines, white sand beaches, fishing villages with colourful boats and neighbourly people. You can cycle our rural roads, walk our trails, go fishing in our lakes and rivers, paddle in the ocean or sit back and bird watch. For the golfer, we have a beautiful 18 hole golf course in Clyde River and in Birchtown, you can take a guided tour of the new Black Loyalist Heritage Centre and Historical Site, the first freed black settlement in North America. Each day in Sandy Point when the tide is low, you can walk to the lighthouse and in the summer, stop at their Community Centre to enjoy refreshments and ice cream.

The Municipality boasts a rich maritime history and the third best natural harbour in the world. We invite you to come and give yourself a rest from life’s hustle and bustle, where you can enjoy everything we have to offer at your own pace. We value a quality of life that is second to none and we want to share this with you.

Practicing in Nova Scotia

Physicians in Nova Scotia provide fulfilling patient care which embraces family life, professional development and community involvement. That's what makes practicing medicine in Nova Scotia unique. Physicians are increasingly attracted to practices that offer team-based care to their patients and allow them to consult with their peers. The size and scale of Nova Scotia allows for better connections across the health care system. Your practice of medicine and your life is richer here. Nova Scotia is more than medicine. 

Building a Diverse Workforce

The Physician Recruitment Team at Nova Scotia Health lives and works in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. We are dedicated to equity, diversity, inclusion, and truth and reconciliation, and we are working to support medical communities that are reflective of and responsive to the diverse populations they serve in Nova Scotia. We welcome physicians from diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us in building healthier, more equitable communities across the province.