Director, Professional Practice – Allied Health – BC Cancer – Vancouver

Job title:

Director, Professional Practice – Allied Health – BC Cancer – Vancouver

Company

Provincial Health Services Authority

Job description

Director, Professional Practice – Allied Health

BC Cancer

Vancouver, British Columbia

You are an innovative and knowledgeable leader with a solid career track in professional practice legislation, education, and research. Your range of experience encompasses both strategy and operations, and you approach your work with an aim to collaborate, include multiple key partners, educate, and ultimately to provide the best care to every patient. Regarded as an expert in professional practice standards by colleagues, you’re keen to share your knowledge, develop resources, and mentor others, including health care professionals and leaders across the province. Along with promoting the highest standards within your work portfolio, you’re also committed to your team’s own health, supporting quality of work life and improvements to equity, diversity, inclusion and elimination of anti-Indigenous racism.

What you’ll do

The Director, Professional Practice reports to the Executive Director, Professional Practice and Learning & Development, and is accountable for providing strategic, operational, and educational leadership for nursing and allied health professional practice across BC Cancer. This role will play an integral part in defining the quality-of-care processes and creating quality practice environments in collaboration with key partners, including other health authorities, the Ministry of Health, colleges, universities, professional associations, and regulatory bodies. High-level accountabilities include:

• Plan, develop, and evaluate the annual operating plans for professional practice, in alignment with the mission, vision, and direction of PHSA and BC Cancer.
• Implement changes to professional practice standards to eliminate anti-Indigenous racism and improves equity, diversity and inclusion is achieved. Foster team spirit, trust, and mutual respect.
• Direct the operational activities of professional practice within BC Cancer, including setting and prioritizing deliverables, leading Professional Practice staff, and assisting team members to define shared and individual goals and meet target dates.
• Oversee the recruitment, development, and retention of professional practice leaders. Evaluate individual and project team performance in collaboration with appropriate partners.
• Assess resources, utilize patterns, models of care, skill mix, and supply issues, make recommendations to operational and practice leaders to promote patient safety, best practices, patient access, and efficient flow across the care continuum.
• Develop and manage operational budgets, monitor expenditures, perform variance analysis, and support annual capital planning process within the context of operational demands and environmental and resource constraints and use best utilization methods.
• Foster relationships within professional practice and with other key partners to advance professional practice issues and promote best practices within the applicable programs.

What you bring

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in an applicable professional or related discipline, or an equivalent level of education, training, and experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership responsibility in a complex health care or academic health sciences environment.
• Current practicing registration with an applicable allied health discipline college in British Columbia (e.g., BC College of Social Workers (BCCSW), College of Dietitians of British Columbia, etc.)

Skills & Knowledge

• Thorough understanding of professional practice legislation and controls on practice, with comprehensive knowledge of professional practice issues and future directions for Professional practice at the provincial and national levels.
• Broad knowledge of interprofessional practice and education; models of care delivery across a variety of disciplines and settings; research processes and methodology.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, set, and accomplish objectives and goals in a complex, fast-paced, matrix environment, working well both independently and in collaboration with others.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, interpersonal, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, coach, mentor and model key behaviors to staff.
• Proven ability to build networks and develop mutually beneficial working relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to critically analyze industry and professional literature; to develop quality assessment systems/tools; and to use creativity and innovation to develop strategies.
• Demonstrated knowledge of collective agreements, applicable legislation as well as principles of union/management relationships.
• Ability to develop and manage a budget, monitor expenditures, and perform variance analysis.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents – including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study – and how they intersect across the health care system.
• Models and supports full team commitment to Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety including oversight and commitment to education strategy.
• Collaborates with peers to ensure Indigenous-specific Anti-racism and ICSH are applied holistically through department as whole.
• Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
• As a strong asset for consideration, we are looking for our successful candidate to have: Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments (The Declaration Act, the Declaration Action Plan, TRC, IPS, Remembering Keegan, etc.).

What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

• Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
• Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
• Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
• Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.
• PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may vary, depending on position).
• Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

Job Type: Regular Full Time
Wage: $113,195 – $162,718 per year.
Location: 1333 West Broadway/BC Cancer Vancouver – 600 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6
Closing date: February 23rd, 2024
Hours of Work: Monday to Friday; 8 – 4 pm

As per the current Public Health Order, full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment with PHSA as of October 26, 2021.

What we do

provides comprehensive cancer control for the people of British Columbia. BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Cultivate partnerships – Serve with purpose.

Learn more about PHSA and our programs:

PHSA is committed to equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently marginalized groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.

Reconciliation is an ongoing process and a shared responsibility for all of us. The BC Government unanimous passing of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act was a significant step forward in this journey—one that all health authorities are expected to support as we work in cooperation with Indigenous Peoples to establish a clear and sustainable path to meaningful and lasting reconciliation. True reconciliation will take time and ongoing commitment to work with Indigenous Peoples as we move toward self-determination. Guiding these efforts PHSA must uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents such as including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.
Labor Agreement Excluded
Requisition # 2412980
Work Site 1333 West Broadway, Vancouver BC, V6H 1G9 & 600 W 10th Ave, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4E6
Job Type Regular, Full-Time
Salary/Rate $113,195.00 – $162,718.00 / Year
FTE 1.00
Hours of Work
Work Days Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri
Expiry Date 23-Feb-2024

Expected salary

$113195 – 162718 per year

Location

Vancouver, BC

Job date

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:06:35 GMT

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