Director, Professional Practice - Vancouver, Canada - PHSA

PHSA

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Vancouver, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Director, Professional Practice
Provincial Health Services Authority

Vancouver, BC

What you'll do

Plan, develop, and evaluate the annual operating plans for professional practice, in alignment with the mission, vision, and direction of PHSA and applicable programs.
Implement changes to professional practice standards to eliminate antiIndigenous racism and improve equity, diversity and inclusion is achieved. Foster team spirit, trust, and mutual respect.
Directs the operational activities of professional practice within the applicable programs, including setting an prioritizing deliverables, leading Professional practice staff, and assisting team members to define shared and individual goals and meet target dates.
Oversee the recruitment, development, and retention of professional practice leaders. Evaluate individual and project team performance in collaboration with appropriate partners. Investigate work and staff issues and in consultation with the Executive Director, manages performancerelated matters.
Assess resources utilize patterns, models of care, skill mix, and supply issues, makes recommendations to operational and practice leaders to promote patient safety, best practices, patient access, and efficient flow across the care continuum, while fostering a sustainable nursing and allied workforce.
Develop and manage operational budgets, monitors expenditures, performs variance analysis, and support annual capital planning process within the context of operational demands and environmental and resource constraints and use best utilization methods. Approve expenditures and prepare summaries for fiscal reporting. Liaise with representatives of Finance in addition to the Executive Director on budget matters.
Foster relationships within professional practice and with other key partners to advance professional practice issues and promote best practices within the applicable programs. Brokers effective partnerships with internal and external vested parties regarding the planning, resource allocation, priority determination, and strategic direction for professional practice.
Identify, implement, and monitor quality improvement initiatives with key partners with a focus on developing, implementing, and evaluating strategies that support safe, competent, and ethical practice.
Ensure professional standards, registration requirements, practice guidelines, professional credentials and the code of ethics for staff are understood, monitored and maintained. Support the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence based and wise practice supports that are consistent with professional colleges, regulatory bodies, and accreditation standards.
Advocate for and leads efforts to leverage and support regulated health professions use of their optimized scopes of practice and unregulated clinicians' skills and abilities in ways that support best patient care in alignment with PHSA and program goals.
Provide expertise in identifying needed practice supports, including policies, decisions support tools such as protocols and care paths and procedures. Advance the use of informatics in support of clinical practice.
Develop a vision and strategies for education, research and innovation related nursing and/or allied professions. Support the development of educational resources and tools, and evaluation of nursing and allied health educational initiatives and strategies. Represent the professional disciplines at key local, provincial, national, and international forums.
Maintain an awareness of current trends and issues related to the portfolio through methods such as literature review, contact with peers at other organizations and attendance at seminars, workshops and education programs.

What you bring

Qualifications:

A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Master's Degree in an applicable professional or related discipline and ten to fifteen years of progressively increasing leadership responsibility in a complex health care or academic health sciences environment.
Current practicing registration with the BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).

You will also have

Broad knowledge of professional practice, nursing and the skills required on various units and programs within tertiary level teaching hospitals, community based programs, ambulatory care settings and a patient and family centered model of care.
Comprehensive knowledge of professional practice issues and future directions for professional practice at the provincial and national levels.
Broad knowledge of interprofessional practice and education and models of care delivery across a variety of disciplines and settings. Broad knowledge of research processes and methodology.
Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, set and accomplish objectives and goals in a complex, fastpaced environment.
Demonstrated leadership, communication, interpersonal, decisionmaking an