Expression of Interest Hospitalist Site Specialty Lead– Dartmouth General Hospital

Overview

Nova Scotia Health is seeking expressions of interest for the position of Hospitalist Site Specialty Lead for Dartmouth General Hospital (DGH) within the Central Zone. The DGH Hospitalist Site Specialty Lead will function in a co-leadership relationship with the site and service-based health services Director and Unit Managers to manage the daily operations of the Hospitalist Inpatient Services throughout DGH.

Position Summary:

The CZ Hospitalist Site Specialty Lead is accountable to the Head, Zone Department of Hospital Medicine, the Zone Medical Executive Director (ZMED), and Zone Vice President Operations (VPO), or their delegates. The Hospitalist Lead also works in a co-leadership relationship with the Health Services Directors and Managers of Inpatient services for DGH. The Hospitalist Site Specialty Lead will also have a direct working relationship with the DGH Site Medical Lead to address system quality/accountability, access and flow priorities.

Accountabilities:

• Be accountable to the Head, Zone Department of Hospital Medicine, ZMED, and VPO, or their delegates.
• Co-lead with the Health Services Director and Health Services Managers across the applicable site.
• Be visibly and consistently present on inpatient units across the site in keeping with NSH Operational Excellence expectations.
• Monitor standards, quality, and utilization of resources; address issues at the site or as identified by Medical Site Lead, Zonal Department Head, and/or ZMED.
• Co-chair the hospitalist site’s quality improvement committee, if applicable.
• Assist in managing site overcapacity issues; act as point of contact for site hospitalist medical staff and escalation per site.
• Support surge capacity for all admitted patients, including establishing and operating service surge response in alignment with dynamic resource mechanism.
• Ensure service continuity through scheduling practices, establishing an equitable on-call schedule, managing vacation/CME time, and utilizing locums.
• Champion site-wide best practices, policies and standards as determined by NSH operations, programs and clinical service networks; participate in policy implementation and impact evaluation; support site and zone initiatives including Site Leadership, Department Head, ZMED, Provincial Access & Flow Network, and Provincial Acute & Episodic Care Network.
• Work with the co-lead to create a plan to improve access and flow for the regional/tertiary site as well as surrounding area community hospitals.
• Attend Access and Flow Network Council meetings and contribute to strategies, policies and procedures that promote increased access and flow of patients.
• Chair regular hospitalist site meetings with minutes for sharing with the hospitalist group and Zone Department Head.
• Attend other committee meetings as required or assigned by the Zone Department Head or ZMED, including mandatory attendance at the site’s clinical affairs committee and co-chairing the site’s hospitalist medicine operations committee, if applicable.
• Serve as Hospitalist Physician Lead for the site’s Emergency Preparedness activities.
• Participate in site or zone clinical services planning, as required.
• Address medical staff and operational challenges in conjunction with operational co-leads and stakeholders; work with the Zone Department Head and ZMED for medical staff issues involving formal complaints and Bylaw processes.
• Participate in recruitment/retention activities and coordinate onboarding and orientation processes for new recruits to the site.
• Participate in leadership development and demonstrate commitment to lifelong learning and leadership capability refinement.
• Lead the incident review process for the site’s hospitalist group, in liaison with Quality and Patient Safety representatives, including required family meetings.
• Collaborate with Zonal Department Head and ZMED on medical affairs activities inclusive of medical education.

Compensation: $35,000.

Application Requirement:

Please submit your expression of interest with a cover letter and CV outlining your experience in relation to the accountabilities for the position to Dr. Elizabeth Burton, Department Head of Hospitalist Medicine for Central Zone, Elizabeth.Burton@nshealth.ca.

If you are considering applying and have questions about the role, please reach out to Dr. Burton directly.

Eligibility: We are seeking a physician who:

• Currently holds NSHA privileges
• Years of progressive leadership experience considered an asset
• Demonstrated expertise in the areas of: access & flow, quality, evaluation, team building and collaboration; co-leadership

Community Details

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.

Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) 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. Our priority groups are Aboriginal People, African Nova Scotians, Persons with Disabilities and Recent Immigrants. Members of these groups are welcome to apply and self-identify if they wish to be considered under our Employment Equity policy.