Regional Stroke Rehab. Coordinator - Kingston, Canada - Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Kingston Health Sciences Centre

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Description

Title:
Regional Stroke Rehabilitation Coordinator

Department:
Regional Integrated Stroke Strategy

Position Number:

Hours of Work:
Full-Time Position

Salary:
Class 06 - $92,857-$111,429

Union:
Non-Union

Location:
Kingston General Hospital Site

PRIMARY FUNCTION

Leads regional stakeholders in the planning, implementation and evaluation of a regional stroke workplan addressing health system change and continuous improvement in stroke prevention, care, recovery, and community reintegration.

Specifically, this role focuses on health system work related to rehabilitation across the stroke care continuum.

The Regional Rehabilitation Coordinator is a region wide resource with region wide responsibilities to inform, support and lead change with partners across southeastern Ontario throughout the continuum to enable stroke best practice within a team/organization or across the health system.

This work includes project management, analyzing data/indicators/trends, identifying and addressing service gaps, leading change, quality improvement, and informing leadership at organizational and regional levels of system change needs including changes in service delivery models or staffing models.

RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES INCLUDE:

Collaborative Health Care Planning and Evaluation:
Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders and the Regional Stroke Team to build relationships at various levels, review both qualitative and quantitative data, identify service gaps/inequities and opportunities, and identify health system change that will enhance access to stroke rehabilitation expertise and best practices

Health System Change Agent, Quality Improvement, Project Management:
Lead and coordinate the implementation, monitoring and continuous improvement of identified health system changes.

This includes change management and quality improvement activities within teams or across teams/organizations including strategies to standardize rehabilitation care delivery, improve the patient experience and improve rehabilitation access and patient flow.

Chair meetings, lead ongoing data interpretation/analysis, develop reports, support data information needs, engage teams in change and facilitate discussion, seek out team members/participants, identify priorities, share quality improvement/knowledge translation expertise.

With stakeholders, create or revise stroke rehabilitation programs and services, advise on best practice staffing models, support implementation, evaluate, sustain and advise on modifying the service models as needed.

This work may require formal project management.

Communication Linkages; Consultation and Advisory Role
Orient new clinicians/managers/leaders across the region to the stroke system and role of stroke rehabilitation and continually link/educate individuals and organizations about system resources (may include participating in interviews, staff selection, developing job descriptions at various organizations across the region etc)

Knowledge Translation - Resources and Tools
Leads/Participates in provincial collaboration on shared initiatives to drive best practice in stroke rehabilitation. Supports the development, awareness and uptake of resources, tools and strategies at both provincial and regional levels (committees, project teams etc.)

Knowledge Translation and Facilitation of KT Networks

Facilitate regional and provincial discussion and sharing between clinicians or organizations to share stroke expertise, best practice models of care, staffing models or change opportunities, data reports etc to optimize clinical and organizational practices.

NOTE
The above duties are representative but are not to be construed as allinclusive._

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Undergraduate or graduate degree in a Health Profession (entry to practice)
Masters in a healthrelated field (e.g. health leadership, project management, change management, quality, health research, business, health education/rehabilitation/nursing, health policy, public administration etc.)
10 years health care experience with a minimum of 2 years in rehabilitation
Also including 2 years' experience in health care leadership or change management (e.g.; program management, program evaluation, project management, change management, continuous quality improvement, knowledge translation)
Clinical experience in delivery of stroke care with demonstrated knowledge of stroke care continuum.
Clinical experience working with an interprofessional team
Previous experience as a change agent with an understanding of organizational cultures
Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills with the ability to work both collaboratively and independently.
Licensed member in good standing with a health professional college and/or member of the Regulated Health Professionals of Ontario
Strong consultative skills; strong oral and written communication