Director - One Person One Record; OPOR), Digital Clinical Practice and Learning

Position: Director - One Person One Record (OPOR), Digital Clinical Practice and Learning
Req :  213621

Location:

Central Zone, Westway 1  Department:  OPOR STRAT-Education Learning & Training  Type of Employment:  Permanent Hourly FT(100%) x 1  Management Position:  Yes  Posting Closing Date:  18-Jan-26
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 qua ternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions.

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About the Portfolio  One Person-One Record (OPOR) is a vision and strategy for health in Nova Scotia. It will provide a foundation for improved health system governance, integration of patient information across the care continuum, and standardized processes and practices. OPOR is a collaborative initiative between IWK Centre, Nova Scotia Health and the Government of NS (together making the Province of NS (PNS) and in partnership with patients & families, and our communities.

This is a unifying approach where partnering with patient and family is a priority and transcends the typical organizational boundaries.
This program contains multiple components:
One Person-One Record (OPOR) is a vision and strategy for health in Nova Scotia. It will provide a foundation for improved health system governance, integration of patient information across the care continuum, and standardized processes and practices. OPOR Clinical Information System (OPOR-CIS) is the replacement of the three existing hospital information systems with a core clinical information system while simplifying the clinical systems environment and enabling it to be extended into the community.

Provincially, the OPOR Program facilitates and advances excellence in quality collaborative person-centred care through a coordinated approach to ensuring ongoing meaningful use of the CIS to support clinical best practice and care. The OPOR Program plays a key collaborative leadership role in creating a culture of learning with a focus on evidence informed best practice care delivery, clinical leadership, optimal use of technologies, and knowledge translation.

This is achieved by working in partnership with senior leaders from zones, programs, networks within IWK Health & NS Health and the broader health system nationally.
About the Opportunity  The Director, Digital Clinical Practice and Learning is a senior leadership role within OPOR, with provincial accountability for advancing digital clinical practice and education to support the safe, consistent and sustainable adoption of the OPOR Clinical Information System (CIS).
Digital Clinical Practice  for non provider clinical roles, and
Education and Learning  for all CIS end users
Reporting to the Senior Director, this role provides strategic leadership for digital readiness, standardized clinical practice (non-provider roles), and comprehensive learning programs for all CIS end users across Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health.
The Director leads the provincial strategy for digital clinical practice integration, ensuring alignment with regulatory, accreditation, policy and quality frameworks. Working closely with provincial partners, regulatory bodies and clinical leaders, the role defines clear, evidence-informed and operationally feasible digital practice expectations and readiness supports.
In parallel, the Director oversees the end-to-end provincial CIS education and learning strategy, including curriculum design, training delivery, evaluation and long-term sustainment. This includes oversight of training operations, practice labs, onboarding and just-in-time education, trainer development, learning…