Manager- Clinical Standardization - Vancouver, Canada - B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre

B.C. Women's Hospital & Health Centre

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Vancouver, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Description

**Manager

Clinical Standardization*
Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
The Manager works to coordinate the collection and interpretation of the clinical informatics Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Data and identify patient care and quality of care related issues evident from the trends identified in the data

Key responsibilities include:

coordinating the gathering of data, risk management, quality project management, monitoring and reporting, benchmarking and process measurement, patient safety promotion, implementing change in clinical workflow and supporting delivery of education related to use of the technology and medical devices, including infusion pumps and medication safety systems, managing all product recalls and shortages affecting C&W, and leading C&W's equipment and supply standardization initiatives.

What you'll do

Provide leadership and direction for the management, utilization, risk management, and quality improvement for clinical operations for all equipment and supply standardization related initiatives.
Guide the development, recommendation and implementation of changes in department policy, clinical workflow and equipment and product standardization.
Ensure equipment and supply standardization at C&W is in alignment with accreditation requirements. Lead standardization and industry benchmarking actions to respond to recommendations arising from accreditation surveys, and to address new accreditation requirements, issue identification and prioritization.
Actively lead Product Standardization Committee structures to facilitate decisionmaking, ensure appropriate assignment of accountability and secure buyin of change efforts
Represent C&W, on a formal basis, by negotiating and facilitating consensus with major vendor organizations and clinical stakeholders for standardized equipment and to ensure maximum leverage of relationships in support of the strategic goals, clinical requirements and standardization of equipment and supplies. Represent C&W on provincial competitive bids and Value Analysis Teams (VAT) with a clinical focus to address clinical requirements for tertiary and quaternary pediatric and maternity patients.

What you bring

A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline such as nursing, respiratory therapy, occupational therapy
Six (6) years recent related experience working with medication safety system technology and/or equipment and supply standardization or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

You will also have

Strong written and verbal skills.
Experience with data quality work.
Demonstrated commitment to developing data that drives clinical outcomes and quality.
Demonstrated ability and comfort with data and information to staff groups for the purposes of evidence based practice improvement.
Ability to utilize communication, change management, and leadership skills to work collaboratively with team members and person from various constituencies in the accomplishment of required tasks.
Have awareness of and commitment to learning and understanding the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Site Report (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), and Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls calls for justice, and how they intersect across the health care system.
Support team members on their learning journey, ensuring education strategy for team/department to implement Indigenous Cultural Safety at a practical level.
Work collaboratively with appropriate Indigenous teams/departments to ensure ICS lens applied holistically.
Have commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
Have Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and antiracism and accompanying reports (BC DRIPA, TRC, etc.).

What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That's why we're focused on your care too offering health, wellness, development programs to support you at work and at home.
Join one of BC's largest employers with provincewide programs, services and operations offering vast opportunities for growth and development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
Access to professional development opportunities through our inhouse training programs, including +2,000 cour