Provincial Professional Practice Leader, BC Cancer

Job Summary:

In accordance with the Purpose, Vision, Values and Coast Salish Teachings, 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.
Reporting to the Director of Professional Practice Allied Health, the Provincial Professional Practice Leader (PPPL) 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, excellence in clinical practice, research, education, and leadership. The role collaborates with a wide variety of people internal and external to the Health Authority, including educators, operational leaders, clinical and professional discipline leaders to identify desired practice outcomes; develop, implement, and monitor work plans/projects and supports project staff.
As a systems leader and change agent, the PPPL 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. The PPPL liaises with professional discipline clinicians/leaders and other partners, representing PHSA professional practice contributions in decision-making forums.

Duties/Accountabilities:

• Provides leadership in creating, articulating, innovating, and sustaining an organization wide vision for inter- professional collaborative practice that emphasizes highest quality, family-centred care. Supports strong inter-professional 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.
• 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.
• Ensures professional standards and regulations, practice guidelines and code of ethics for all assigned professions are achieved working in collaboration with discipline leaders. Provides professional practice input and decision making to clinical information system design and implementation, particularly as it relates to scope.
• 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.
• Provides leadership for a wide range of projects designed to address PHSA-wide operational goals and vision. In collaboration with PHSA 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 profession-specific and inter-professional participation by PHSA in advancing practice and/or addressing professional practice issues, including for transition and support of clinical information systems. Promotes consistent, quality care to our patients / clients / families across PHSA sites, programs, and professions through standardization, integration, and promotion of evidence-informed best practice.
• 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 level initiatives. Remains current with emerging trends in patient care and interpersonal collaborative practice. Develops and maintains professional contacts and networks to facilitate the appropriate disposition of requests for information and support for projects from appropriate disciplines across PHSA, provincially, nationally, and internationally.
• Advises and makes recommendations regarding trends and opportunities to advance discipline specific and inter-professional collaborative practice or maintain sustainability of the professional workforce. Works closely with the Departments of Learning and Development, Quality, Safety & Risk Management, Academic Planning, Clinical Informatics, clinical programs, and other groups on special projects to address clinical practice issues, education needs and retention strategies. Leads and mentors inter-professional dialogue and enhances practice scholarship within and across professional groups. Cultivates new opportunities for clinically based health research, professional and interprofessional presentations and publications in collaboration with agency partners. Participates in quality management initiatives related to patient and health professional data.

Qualifications:

A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Master’s degree in the applicable profession such as Allied Health, or related field (e.g. Advanced Practice, Leadership or Education), plus five (5) years of recent, related experience including two (2) years of leadership experience. Current practicing registration with own discipline professional regulatory body. Informatics training/certification an asset.
• Demonstrated knowledge in facilitation of inter-professional practice.
• Current knowledge of controls on practice, regulatory bodies, and the Health Professions and Occupations Act.
• Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role in providing care.
• Comprehensive knowledge of PHSA mission, vision, values, strategic directions and goals.
• Knowledge of research processes and methodology.
• Well-developed project planning and management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work, including the ability to adjust to new or unexpected events.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work collaboratively as a member of an inter-professional team and ability to function as an effective leader, mentor, and facilitator.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate both verbally and in writing, and to work effectively with co-workers, other health care professionals, and with the various PHSA programs.
• Ability to work autonomously and be self-directed and agile in complex and changing environments.
• Ability to work with emerging technologies, including development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Commitment to continuous learning and to participate in and support the learning of others.
• Demonstrated physical ability to perform the duties of the position.