Job Description

Location: Clarenville GB Cross Hospital

Division Manager, Medicine
Regional Medicine Program
Permanent, Full Time
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Hours 70 bi-weekly (8-hour shifts; days; on-call)
Salary HL-22, ($75,022 - $97,529 per annum)
Competition Number 2024004701
Posted Date 2 July 2024
Closing Date 9 July 2024

About Us
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services (NL Health Services) brings together five former separate health entities - Eastern Health, Central Health, Western Health, Labrador-Grenfell Health, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Health Information. The creation of a provincial health authority was announced following recommendations from Health Accord NL.

NL Health Services is responsible for delivering health and community services to more than 528,000 people living in Newfoundland and Labrador and employs over 21,000 people. NLHealthServices.ca

Job Summary
The Division Manager is responsible for promoting an environment which supports excellence in care provision and staff empowerment, accomplished through strong leadership capabilities, effective management of human and financial resources and partnerships with internal and external services. The Division Manager ensures medicine inpatient services and Ambulatory Treatment Unit services located at the GB Cross are consistent with established policies and best practices. Specific responsibilities include leading an interdisciplinary team, building strong relationships with physician leads, measuring and monitoring care provision; staff selection, development, motivation and performance appraisal; and management of change in a dynamic environment.

The Division Manager works within the NL Health Services Leadership Framework with accountabilities to lead self, engage others, achieve results, develop coalitions and implement systems transformations within the assigned areas of responsibility. These include working within the Divisions lines of business, fiscal and resource stewardship, managing and developing staff, effective communication, quality and risk management and health workplace management.

Job Qualifications
Education
A Baccalaureate Degree in a health-related discipline is required.
A Master's degree in the applicable area is preferred.

Experience
Minimum of five (5) years of experience within the last seven (7) in an adult acute care clinical setting is required.
Progressive leadership and/or management experience is required.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)
Knowledge of adult acute care services.
Demonstrated strong leadership skills focused on supporting and empowering members of the team.
Demonstrated strong critical thinking skills and innovation in problem-solving and decision making.
Demonstrated conflict management skills.
Demonstrated effective time management skills with the ability to manage tight timelines and meet deadlines.
Demonstrated strong financial stewardship.
Ability to work with high degree of independence and initiative.
Ability to manage change and continuous quality improvement.

You possess a dynamic leadership style focused on:
- Leading yourself through self-awareness, managing your performance and health, developing yourself, and demonstrating character that is in line with NL Health Services values of accountability, caring, collaboration, excellence, and respect
- Engaging others through fostering development of others, contributing to the creation of a healthy organization, communicating effectively, and building effective teams;
- Achieving results by setting direction, strategically aligning decisions with vision, values, and evidence, taking action to implement decisions, and assessing and evaluating outcomes;
- Developing coalitions through purposefully building partnerships and networks to create results, demonstrating a commitment to customers and service, mobilizing knowledge, and navigating socio-political environments;
- Transforming systems by thinking analytically and critically and questioning and challenging the status quo, encouraging and supporting innovation, orienting yourself strategically to the future, and championing and orchestrating change.

Other
Current registration/licensure in the relevant professional association is required.
A satisfactory record of work performance and attendance is required.