Leader, Virtual Health - Vancouver, Canada - PHSA

PHSA

Verified Company

Vancouver, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Leader, Virtual Health
PHSA Corporate

Vancouver, BC

In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of PHSA, safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA.

As such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

The Practice Leader, Virtual Health reports to the Senior Practice Leader, Virtual Health and is an innovator, knowledge translator, and change agent who is accountable for promoting excellence in clinical practice and quality of patient and family care through virtual health.

The Practice Leader advances knowledge creation and uptake by engaging in or supporting the use of current research, evidence/best practice standards in order to address professional, program and patient problems and concerns.

The Practice Leader supports professional, practice, program and organizational goals in collaboration with the Office of Virtual Health team, the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) Corporate Policy Office, and others.

The role liaises closely with professional practice leaders, clinicians, clinical program leaders and other stakeholders, for the purpose of advancing and strengthening inter-professional practice and high quality patient care through virtual health.

What you'll do

Promotes evidencedbased practice and shares knowledge about current research and literature including innovation in practice, policy development, and standards of care through virtual health. Establishes opportunities to support staff in implementing evidence based practice and in clinical research endeavors and promotes and advances best practice through knowledge translation strategies, policy, procedure and guideline development, publications, presentations, and conferences.
Scans the environment and the literature to identify emerging virtual health practice trends and challenges and implements strategies to address challenges. Participates in complex and innovative projects to support virtual health practice and adoption and engages all disciplines to find solutions.
Supports OVH Clinical Adoption and Integration strategy development and deployment, ensuring that professional practice priorities are aligned with organization and provincial strategic priorities. Tracks, analyzes and reports progress in relation to designated performance indicators.
Provides systems leadership and assignment of appropriate discipline representation for effective professionspecific and interprofessional participation in advancing virtual health practice and/or addressing professional practice issues.
Cultivates new opportunities for clinically based research, professional and interprofessional presentation and publications. In collaboration with the Senior Practice Leader, Virtual Health participates in the planning, development and evaluation of discipline specific and interprofessional research proposals, projects and surveys and prioritizes according to clinical and resource availability.
Responds to patient and general inquiries relating to virtual health practices, issues and standards.
Performs other related duties as assigned.

What you bring

Qualifications:

A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Baccalaureate Degree in a healthcare profession or related field and five (5) years recent related experience in clinical/practice/educator positions or advanced practice roles, including two (2) years direct patient care experience.
Ideally the incumbent for this role will also have demonstrated knowledge and clinical experience in virtual health. This position requires strong facilitation skills, and an ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. The Practice Leader participates as an effective member of the Office of Virtual Health and the interdisciplinary care team. The Practice Leader is an advanced practice clinician who demonstrates leadership through teaching, dissemination of research, and mentoring as well as modelling problem solving skills within a complex challenging environment and across the health care system with a wide variety of patients, practitioners, and others.

Skills & Knowledge

Awareness of and commitment to learning and understanding the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight 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.
Supports team members on their learning journey, ensuring education strategy for team/department to implement Indigenous Cultural Safety at a practical level.
Works collaboratively with appropriate Indigenous teams/departments to ensure ICS lens applied holistically.
Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of crea