Senior Analyst - Mental Health and Addictions

Nova Scotia Health Authority


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Dartmouth, NS
Contract type: Full time
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Req ID: 194040

Location: Provincial Zone, Nova Scotia Hospital

Department: MHA NS Policy & Planning - CNS

Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly FT ( 100% ) x 1

Management/Non Union P osition

Posting Closing Date: 16-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.

About The Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager Policy & Planning, Mental Health and Addictions Program (MHAP), the Senior Analyst advises and supports the advancement of defined priority areas according to identified strategic directions of MHAP. They are responsible for enabling MHAP managers, directors, and Senior Leaders to make and implement service delivery, operational and strategic decisions that are: aligned with program priorities and applicable policy, legislation, and regulation; and fully informed by available evidence, and subject matter expertise.

Their Primary Role Involves

  • Working under the direction of domain sponsors, and in collaboration with Policy & Planning team, the senior analyst oversees the planning, design, development, and evaluation of specific MHAP strategies.
  • Reviewing, synthesizing, and analyzing existing research, evidence-based and evidence-informed services and interventions, and data to support planning and design processes and on issues impacting mental health and mental illness across the lifespan, as well as on reducing the harms associated with substance use and gambling on the lives of Nova Scotians.
  • Facilitating multi-disciplinary, interdepartmental, inter-organizational, and/or inter-sectoral teams which include clinicians, physicians, managers, directors, and others to produce options, recommendations, and associated deliverables.
  • Establishing strategic linkages and collaborative relationships among multiple internal and external interested parties to connect and mobilize people, knowledge and other resources for achievement of shared objectives, including community, provincial and national partners

About You

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

  • Master’s Degree in a related discipline required
  • 5-7 years’ experience providing strategic, executive level related decision support required.
  • Experience in a mental health and addictions setting is preferred.
  • Certified Health Executive designation considered an asset.
  • Expert critical analysis and writing skills, excellent presentation skills
  • Demonstrated experience in creating and guiding multi-interested party complex working teams of staff with indirect accountabilities to other operational units to produce deliverables
  • Ability to execute through effective delegation, motivation and oversight
  • Experience facilitating/leading service delivery model and operational model design processes
  • Ability to analyze and interpret statistical data, assess and evaluate quality and performance indicators and benchmarks
  • Strategic planning and systems thinking skills
  • Evidence-based collaborative problem solving of complex multifaceted issues
  • Expertise in overseeing and facilitating complex change, such as the Prosci ADKAR model
  • Experience in applying quality improvement methodologies, such as Lean Six Sigma
  • Collaboration, negotiation and persuasion skills are paramount as this role requires the engagement of internal and external partners

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours

  • Permanent Full Time position (100%); 75 Hours Bi Weekly

Compensation And Benefits

$45.45 - $60.39 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. (Permanent Long Assignments Only)

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

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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