At the Elbow Lead (Nursing) - One Person One Record

 Req ID: 208306
Location: Provincial Zone, All Locations 
Department: OPOR STRAT ATE - MGR
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly PT long-assignment (30%) x 1 
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 20-Aug-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

The At the Elbow Lead provides technical oversight and subject matter expertise and day-to-day supervision and support of the Clinical implementation and maintenance activities related to specific application areas. The individual will lead the technical implementation of the build/configuration and changes/enhancements for assigned clinical applications in collaborative partnership with other IM/IT Leads and Managers.

The At the Elbow Lead independently addresses issues and designs decisions of moderate complexity with little or no supervision and delivers clear communication and documentation of complex concepts and issues related to clinical and non-clinical applications across the organization. This includes leading the analysis, resolution of issue, communication of resolution to affected users. The Lead Application Analyst also leads testing activities and finally leads training activities including creation of educational documentation and support to end users.

The At the Elbow Lead reports to an IM/IT Manger, and oversees a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of initiatives and programs throughout the province as the organization moves towards the rationalization of disparate systems and the OPOR strategy. The IM/IT Manager will be committed to a high standard of performance and will provide support across the organization to leverage IT applications in support of NSH’s and its client’s strategic mission, vision and goals. The IM/IT Manager performs a variety of tasks, including but not limited to, coordination of resources and stakeholders; managing timelines and milestones; documenting outcomes; and, monitoring, summarizing and communicating the progress of activities to the appropriate leadership team members. Additionally, this management position ensures that all activities within their responsible area are supported by the NSH IM/IT business plan, established policies/procedures, and in line with service level agreements between NSH, IWK and the department of health.

About You

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

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science Information systems or health related field. Consideration may be given to those with equivalent training and work experience
• Minimum of 3- 5 years of experience in Clinical Application implementation, previous Lead experience preferred
• Nursing background preferred
•  Project Management and change management c