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IWK Health is an internationally recognized and respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, providing tertiary, secondary, and primary care for two million women, children, youth and families across the Maritime provinces. As outlined within IWK’s launch of the most recent 2024-2027 Strategy: “The Road Forward” they look forward to delivering on their priorities as a future-focused, responsive and agile organization and continue their journey on the path toward their purpose and aligned with their values, “to passionately pursue a healthy future with women, children, youth and families in all their diversity through excellence in care; research and innovation; and applied learning.”
The Opportunity
To advance excellence in care and support system-wide transformation, IWK Health is seeking a Vice President, Clinical Care, Learning and Chief Nursing Executive (CNE) to lead the delivery of high-quality, patient- and family-centred care across key clinical programs.
As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for Children’s Health, Mental Health & Addictions, Women’s & Newborn Health, Interprofessional Practice, and Learning & Development. With executive oversight of more than 1,700 staff and a $224.5 million budget, your leadership will shape care for women, children, youth, and gender-diverse individuals across Nova Scotia and the Maritimes.
You will guide a broad range of health professionals and provide professional leadership for IWK’s nursing workforce. A key part of your role includes advancing health human resources and workforce development through learning and development strategies that equip teams to deliver safe, innovative, and inclusive care.
In close collaboration with fellow clinical Vice Presidents and provincial partners, you will help drive system alignment and quality improvement, contributing to IWK’s vision and supporting priorities outlined in the province’s Action for Health plan.
Key Areas of Responsibility
As Vice President, you will have oversight and accountability for:
- Strategic leadership
- Quality service delivery and system performance
- Health human resources, talent management, employee engagement and learning
- Responsible stewardship
- Provincial leadership, partnerships and relationships
The Ideal Candidate
As the ideal candidate, you are a values-driven health system leader with a strong record in senior clinical and operational roles in complex healthcare settings. With a nursing degree and a graduate degree in a related field, you bring deep knowledge of care across the continuum, ideally in maternal, newborn, pediatric, or mental health, and have led major initiatives that drive system change and improve outcomes.
A skilled collaborator, you build strong relationships across government, health authorities, academia, and communities. You champion professional practice excellence, interprofessional collaboration, and evidence-informed care. Focused on people and performance, you foster high-performing teams and lead learning strategies that support a resilient workforce.
Passionate about innovation, you are committed to advancing IWK Health as a learning health system where data, research, and feedback improve care. Most importantly, you are inspired by IWK’s mission and believe deeply in the importance of specialized care for women, children, youth, and families. You’re ready to lead change and shape the future of care across the Maritimes.
To explore this opportunity, contact Daniella Sam at dsam@kbrs.ca, Andrea Forbes Hurley at aforbeshurley@kbrs.ca, or Erin MacDonald at emacdonald@kbrs.ca, or apply online at: https://www.kbrs.ca/Career/17478505196630000008ywu.
KBRS will also provide support in this recruitment process to applicants with disabilities, including accommodation that takes into account an applicant’s accessibility needs. If you require accommodation to participate as a candidate in the recruitment process, please contact accommodate@kbrs.ca.
Promoting an anti-racist environment, and calling out discrimination as we work and provide care, is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities across Nova Scotia, and more than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who also have a long, deep, and complex history dating back over 400 years.
We have the highest percentage of people with disabilities in the country. Nova Scotia has the highest proportions of transgender and non-binary people than any other province or territory in the country. We are active in our work to eliminate discrimination, but have more work to do to build that trust, acknowledge our biases and reduce the barriers our diverse communities face. We want IWK Health to be a safe and supportive space of equity and belonging in the care we provide and the employment we offer. We welcome all interested persons who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotians, Persons of Colour, Immigrants/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply to support our goal for our workforce to be representative of the patients, families, and communities that we care for at all job levels.
