Director, Health Disciplines Academic Practice and - London, Canada - Victoria Hospital

Victoria Hospital

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London, Canada

1 week ago

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Description

Who We Are:

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London.

Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music.

As one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning.

In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support he wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children's Hospital, within a large geographic area.

LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time.

Our Health Disciplines department includes over 1200 regulated and unregulated healthcare professionals who are committed to the delivery of evidence-based patient care that enhances the overall patient and family experience at LHSC.

Together with the patient, family and the interprofessional care team, we strive to ensure safe, effective and timely care to optimize recovery and support a smooth transition to home.

Health disciplines staff are also actively engaged with academic work, collaborating with our academic partners at Western University and other educational institutions in the provision of student placements and engagement in research initiatives.

Posting Period:

February 12, February 18, 2024

Job Summary:

What the Role is

Reporting to the Corporate Health Disciplines Executive, the Director of Health Disciplines Academic Practice and Research will translate decisions of our senior level into execution by utilizing systems thinking, strategic planning and relationship management by developing purposeful coalitions with internal and external stakeholders.

This role provides leadership in co-creating, articulating and sustaining an organizational vision for helping to drive the research culture with Health Disciplines by embedding research, learning, and innovative practices throughout operations and all points of care of over 1,200 regulated and non-regulated health professionals that emphasizes highest quality of care.

Overseeing the Managers for these professions, the Director influences the continuing advancement of practice within an inter-professional model and provides strategic and operational leadership.

The role is responsible for facilitating, advocating, and promoting the contributions made by the professions as they relate to excellence in patient centered care, education, and research initiatives.

The Director collaborates with both program leadership and staff to ensure the integration of standards of professional practice in clinical program design, resource planning and allocation, and in the delivery of patient centered care across the organization.

This role also promotes linkages with community partners as opportunities to enhance care continuation from hospital to community, as well as linkages with our academic partners.

You will demonstrate strong business acumen including management of multi-million dollar operating and capital budgets.

This leader will have exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills that contribute to identifying problems and issues, evaluating the interdependence of decisions, questioning and challenging the status quo, and designing and implementing processes for improvement.

You foster a healthy, safe and engaging work environment where others have meaningful opportunities to contribute, collaborate, and cooperate to achieve results.

You inspire and motivate your leaders and teams by aligning with our mission, vision and values and modelling performance and service excellence.

Spotting and developing talent is a strength, as is your ability to coach, mentor, support and challenge others to achieve professional and personal goals.

NOTE:
this role is required to be on-call, evenings and weekends on a rotational basis

Qualifications:

Who You Are

You are selfaware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
You create connections, build partnerships and networks
You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
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