Interdisciplinary Clinical Leader - Occupational Therapy

 Req ID: 208754
Location: Western Zone, All Locations 
Department: OPWZ Rehab Services
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1 
CUPE Healthcare Position
Posting Closing Date: 2-Sep-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.

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About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager, the Interdisciplinary Clinical Leader provides leadership, innovation and support to their clinical program areas, with the goal of providing collaborative person-centered care to patients and families. The Clinical Leader works closely with the team/program managers, this position will support the zone in Occupational Therapy practice, primarily speciality skills, such as hand therapy.  Roles and responsibilities may include: fostering healthy inter-professional team processes, identifying staffing needs and ensuring staffing requirements are being met on a daily basis, fostering team processes that encompass the continuum of patient care from admission through discharge into the community, program planning and evaluation - ensuring practice is inter-professional and evidence informed, participating in the recruitment, selection and orientation of new team members, and supporting a quality approach to service delivery. Participating in quality initiatives to improve service delivery. This role will also have a clinical caseload, including direct care to individuals needings hand therapy.

The home site location of the position will depend on the successful applicant and the manager they will report to will be the manager in proximity to their home site.

About You

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

• Master of Science in Occupational Therapy or a Bachelor's Degree equivalent
• Licensure with the Nova Scotia Occupational Therapy Regulator 
• Three (3) years of recent and relevant experience required
• Competance in hand therapy with three (3) years of hand therapy experience
• Ability to teach and mentor other Occupational Therapists
• Demonstrates success in collaborating in others
• Experience in facilitating teams
• Good understanding of person centered health care
• Superior level of communication
• Demonstrates sound judgment, common sense, flexibility and compassion
• Coaching ability and diplomacy when dealing with co-workers and persons in the community
• Demonstrates initiative, be self-motivated and work independently
• Strive to maintain high quality, innovative service
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with patients, colleagues, management, community agencies, academic settings, students and volunteers
• 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

• Full-Time Long Assignment / 75 hours bi-weekly
• Approximately a 12-month assignment
• Shifts may include evenings, weekends, holidays

Compensation and Benefits

$43.07 - $53.75 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. 

​This is a Healthcare 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.

​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.