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Form of workCompany: Nova Scotia Health
Location: Provincial Zone, All Locations
Department: PH SSP TRAINING & QUALITY ASSURANCE-CNS
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) x 1 position(s)
Status: NSGEU Admin Professionals Position
Posting Closing Date: 31-Jan-23
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 an 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 to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.
About the Opportunity
Reporting to the Manager, the Secretary II provides secretarial and administrative support integral to the efficient operation of programs and services of Public Health. This administrative assistant is responsible, as part of a team, for the effective and efficient operation of the team on a day-to-day basis.
The administrative assistant works with teams, partners and community following a customer service approach. Responsibilities include working independently and as part of the Public Health Team. Duties include but are not limited to: communicating effectively with public health staff, the general public, and outside agencies; typing, records management; computer applications; and working with the public health managers, consultants and public health staff to meet their administrative support needs.
The administrative assistant ensures that the principles and practices that guide NSH such as the vision, mission, values, strategic directions, ethics, safety, quality, partnerships and interprofessional collaboration are integrated within the support that is provided by the work that they do and through the messages they deliver
About You
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:
- Successful completion of a medical office administration program required.
- Extensive experience in electronic communication (including but not limited to) Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Outlook required
- Demonstrated competence in verbal and written communication and strong public relations skills required.
- Demonstrated experience with electronic medical records required.
- Working knowledge of IT systems such as Panorama, SAP, filing and file retention procedures and schedules, purchasing equipment or supplies
- Minimum two (2) years' experience in a health care setting required; experience working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstrated ability to respect and maintain confidentiality of all health care information.
- Ability to manage stressful situations and work as a team member.
- Ability to prioritize workload in order to meet deadlines.
- Understanding of the principles of Public Health.
- Experience working in Public Health an asset.
- Customer service orientated, ensuring all staff, patients, and members of the public are treated courteously, professionally and with respect.
- Supports and delivers quality patient safety standards within NSH Public Health.
- Responsible for contributing to the achievement of the health authority's accreditation standards.
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred.
- Travel may be required for this position
**A skills pre-test will be required to move on to an interview**
Hours
- Long Assignment, Full-Time position; 70 hours bi-weekly
- Beginning February 1, 2023 for approximately 18 months
- Dates are approximate and are subject to change
- Travel may be required for this position
$20.25 - $22.50 Hourly
Once You've Applied
Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. 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.
As per the COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Protocol in High-Risk Settings, Nova Scotia Health requires all team members to be fully vaccinated by November 30th, 2021.
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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