About this role
Competition # : 49769 Department: Health and Wellness Location: HALIFAX Type of Employment: Permanent Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG Closing Date: 22-Sep-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time) About Us
The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we're committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, urgent and emergency care, acute care, community-based supports, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.
About Our Opportunity
The Senior Advisor, Health Privacy provides strategic leadership in the development, implementation, and stewardship of Nova Scotia's provincial health privacy framework. The role facilitates the advancement of a coordinated, consistent, and risk-based approach to privacy across the Department of Health and Wellness, NS Health, IWK, and health system partners.
As the department's senior health privacy expert, you provide advice and recommendations to leadership, government departments, health authorities, and system partners on complex and emerging privacy issues. The role is responsible for identifying risks, opportunities, and trends affecting the collection, use, disclosure, sharing, and protection of personal health information and for recommending innovative and practical solutions that balance privacy protection with the effective use of health information to support better health outcomes for Nova Scotians.
The position supports a broad range of provincial initiatives involving digital health, health system transformation, data governance, information sharing, artificial intelligence, electronic health records