Primary Care Networks - Vancouver, Canada - Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice

Description

Primary Care Networks (PCN) Manager

Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice
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Job Description _


LOCATION:
home-based within British Columbia, with potential for in-person meetings.


EMPLOYMENT TYPE: 1-year full-time (1 FTE) Contract, with possibility of extension.


REPORTS TO:
Executive Director


COMPENSATION:
$100,000 - $112,000 based on education and experience, plus health and dental benefits.


DIVISION SUMMARY

Our mission is supporting our members as they advocate for equitable rural health services, sustain a workforce, collaborate with partners, and design locally relevant programs to support the health of their communities.

Established in 2012, the Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice supports more than 150 physicians and nurse practitioners in 14 chapters across the province.

Our Division works with four geographic Health Authorities and the First Nations Health Authority in more than 100 communities across the province, including more than 50 Indigenous communities.

Our members serve approximately 140,000 patients over approximately 100,000 kilometers squared.

***The Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice is offering an exciting opportunity for a Primary Care Networks (PCN) Manager to support service plan development across the Rural and Remote Division. The Director of Primary Care Networks (PCN) is responsible for operationalizing the development of the British Columbia Ministry of Health's Primary Care Network Initiative across the Rural and Remote Division Chapters. The Primary Care Networks (PCN) Manager is hired by the Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice (backbone organization), receives strategic direction from the PCN Steering Committees to execute the PCN Service Plan for each Chapter, reports operationally to senior division of family practice staff and oversees the work of other PCN staff.

Reporting to the Executive Director and working together with PCN Steering Committees across the Division, the Primary Care Networks (PCN) Manager will support PCN planning, implementation, and ongoing service delivery in each Chapter across the Province.

The Primary Care Networks (PCN) Manager will work closely with local Coordinators and Physician Leads, all partners including the Division's team and its members, Health Authority leadership and staff, First Nations Health Authority representatives, health care providers, Indigenous representatives, including Métis and Urban Indigenous, Patient Voices members, and community agencies/organizations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides overall operational leadership for the planning & implementation of the strategies for each PCN, which includes working with Divisions of Family Practice, health authority staff, PMHs, physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, AHPs, community agencies, and other primary care partners to operationalize direction from the PCN Steering Committee.
• Work with Nations, the FNHA, and other Indigenous partners to ensure a culturally safe and responsive PCN planning process with a focus on equity and humility.
• Analyze and review data to support community needs assessment, develop tools to facilitate data analysis and knowledge translation.
• Coordinate and create tools and organizational systems, processes, and best rural practices to develop effective PCNs across the Interior Rural region.
• Support the development of each Chapter's PCN Steering Committee.
• Establishes operational procedures/resources as required to ensure consistent practice across regional PCN(s).
• Ensures Ministry of Health deliverables for the PCN funding are being achieved, in line with Ministry reporting requirements: Engages family physicians and nurse practitioners within the PCN geography to provide data on patient attachments, using Ministryprovided data and reporting methods (e.g., use of the $0 attachment code, Provincial Attachment System reports and encounter reporting).
• Meets periodically with Ministry of Health to review and discuss PAS reports, as part of ongoing PCN performance for monitoring attachment, access and advancement of primary care attributes against service plan deliverables.
• Coordinates the collection of PCN financial and health human resources data (and other reports as required) across all partner organizations, including the regional health authority, to track progress against service plan deliverables and share with the PCN Steering Committee (and the Ministry of Health, as required).
• Works with the division of family practice and other local groups to facilitate engagement of physicians and other community members in participating in the PCN.
• Project Management that includes proposal development, establishing the governance structure and operational plan, identifying and managing the operating budget (including resource allocation), developing an implementation plan, evaluation and reporting.
• Assists in the selection and monitoring of performance