Professional Practice Consultant - Vancouver, Canada - PHSA

PHSA

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Vancouver, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Job Summary:

Role Summary

In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of Provincial Health Services Authority patient safety is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA, and as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

Reporting to the Chief Nursing Officer, Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), the Collaborative Practice Leader provides expert leadership, consultation, advice and assistance to programs and departments across the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) on projects and initiatives designed to support a quality practice environment and excellence in clinical practice, including supporting the transition to clinical information systems.

In this unique role, the incumbent collaborates with a wide variety of people inside and outside the Health Authority, including educators, operational, clinical and professional discipline leaders to:
identify desired practice outcomes; develop, implement and monitor work plans/projects; and supervise project workers.

Functions as a systems leader and change agent, and is responsible for providing leadership, consultation and direction for professional, inter-professional, clinical and academic practice across PHSA on behalf of an assigned grouping of professional disciplines.

This includes liaising with professional discipline clinicians/leaders and other stakeholders and representing PHSA professional practice contributions in decision making forums.

Duties/Accountabilities:

In collaboration with discipline leaders, ensures professional standards and regulation, practice guidelines and code of ethics for all assigned professions are achieved. Provides professional practice input and decision making to clinical information system design and implementation particularly as it relates to scope, policy and professional standards within the interprofessional clinical teams in PHSA. Facilitates education, policy and systems level discussion regarding professional regulation and standards across PHSA and provincially.
Provides leadership in creating, articulating, innovating and sustaining an organization wide vision for interprofessional collaborative practice that emphasizes highest quality, family centered care. Supports strong interprofessional collaboration through the development of structures, processes and mechanisms that support positive patient outcomes. Utilizes and models effective change management strategies to achieve systems level transformation.
Participates in policy and procedure development, including those related to clinical informatics, consults and/or participates in system change processes for implementation and evaluation of information systems in practice settings. Participates in design of data collection tools for practice decision

- making and record keeping. Participates in determining the impact of clinical information systems on the roles of the inter-professional team to improve the use of informatics within clinical practice, and encourages professionals to develop comfort and competency in technology use in practice.

Supports organizational strategy deployment, ensuring that professional practice priorities are aligned with PHSA and provincial strategic priorities. Tracks, analyzes and reports progress in relation to designated performance indicators.
Provides leadership for a wide range of projects designed to address PHSAwide operational goals and vision.

In collaboration with PHSA agencies and programs, plans and implements complex projects and initiatives aimed at improving:
inter-professional collaborative practice, new technology integration, innovative practice approaches and models of care to enhance patient outcomes. Integrates regulatory or contractual policies and agreements. Directs and supervises the work of contractors and project teams. Assists with operating and capital budget development and develops and manages budgets and contractors related to assigned projects.

Engages in consultation with professional disciplines at all levels of the organization and beyond the Health Authority to ensure that planned practices are designed to support the maintenance or enhancement of clinical care delivery. Provides systems leadership for effective professionspecific and interprofessional participation by PHSA in advancing practice and/or addressing professional practice issues, including for transition and support of clinical information systems.
Represents the PHSA professional practice portfolio in decision making forums as assigned including internal, external and/or provincial forums for: scope/regulation, education, research, strategic planning, quality and other defined health authority level initiatives. Remains current with emerging trends in patient care and interprofessional collaborative practice. Develops and maintains professional contacts and networks to fa