Executive Director, Nurse Patient Ratios – Corporate – Quality, Practice, & Clinical Informatics Team

Job title:

Executive Director, Nurse Patient Ratios – Corporate – Quality, Practice, & Clinical Informatics Team

Company

Provincial Health Services Authority

Job description

Executive Director, Nurse Patient Ratios

Corporate – Quality, Practice, & Clinical Informatics Team

Vancouver, B.C.

You’re an executive-level nursing leader who carries a wealth of knowledge about professional standards, legislation, policy, and procedures. Throughout your career, you’ve focused on quality improvement, systems improvement, performance monitoring – and worked to constantly develop and achieve the best possible care for all people. A steward of change, you have highly developed skills in negotiation, collaboration, persuasion, analysis, and communication. You’re seeking the opportunity to impact health care in British Columbia in a meaningful and impactful position – join PHSA and effect change across the province.

What you’ll do

The Executive Director, Nurse Patient Ratio (mNPR), reports to the Vice President, Quality and Safety, Clinical Informatics, and Chief of Nursing and Allied Practice. This role is responsible and accountable for overseeing PHSA’s Nurse Patient Ratios, ensuring compliance with provincial and federal laws and related accreditation standards are met, in a manner that fulfills the mission and strategic goals of PHSA. Providing leadership and direction for the development, implementation, and evaluation of mNPR systems and processes across PHSA, the Executive Director works in formal partnership with the provincial mNPR committee and Ministry of Health, and plays a key role in the standardization and performance monitoring of mNPR practices, policies, and procedures. High-level accountabilities include:

• Provides PHSA leadership and direction and is accountable for the implementation and evaluation of mNPR across all nursing practice areas, including acute care, community and long term care, in accordance with the Ministry of Health (MoH) policy direction. Responsible for the stewardship of PHSA organizational change in relation to mNPR mandates by providing strategic oversight to the internal implementation teams and ensuring organization-wide communication is in place.
• Provides transformational leadership for the mNPR implementation and is accountable to reshape the delivery of patient care through the development of short and long-term strategic plans and the establishment of a model of care framework.
• Evaluates the acuity and complexity of the patient population and workflows at the unit level; makes recommendations on scope of practice optimization to align nursing skill mix with service delivery.
• Oversees and is accountable for the annual operating budget allocated to the portfolio, including working within approved financial resources, recommending and establishing priorities, engaging in annual budget planning, monitoring expenses and outcomes, identifying efficiencies and promoting the optimal use of resources, reallocating resources to meet objectives, and participating in and/or initiating requests for capital funding/business plans.
• Oversees and has direct oversight for recommendations that impacts staffing, capital planning, financial and business operations related to all mNPR initiatives across the organization.
• Oversees and is responsible for creating structures and processes designed to engage nurses, nursing leaders, and union colleagues in the mNPR implementation within PHSA, and to provide feedback for continuous improvement.
• Collaborates and ensures communication with internal portfolios including Human Resources, Operational Leadership, Professional Practice, Learning, Data Analytics, Evaluation, Finance, and Change Management, external committees, and MOH in the implementation, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation of mNPR.
• Ensures there is a focus on improving Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility in the workplace and in providing care and services for Indigenous patients and families.

What you bring

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing or an equivalent level of education, training, and experience.
• 15+ years’ related experience, including working within a large, multi-site tertiary academic teaching hospital, with successful contribution and leadership on provincial initiatives and quality and safety initiatives.

Skills & Knowledge

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of quality domains, strategies, frameworks and action plans; just, reporting, learning and flexible cultures; change methodologies and approaches; critical patient safety event reviews and analyses; accreditation processes and required organizational practices; system-wide approach and performance improvement, outcomes, reporting and evaluation.
• Demonstrated understanding of current trends in quality and safety; ability to interpret and process data along with understanding of statistics, spreadsheets and databases.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to drive and facilitate change, using management, change and communication strategies.
• Ability to unify, energize, and motivate people, and to influence others at all levels of the organization and create external partnerships.
• 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 and Humility.
• Continually demonstrates humility in relational and collaborative approaches to leading.
• 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 vast 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: $150,803 – $226,205
Location: 1333 West Broadway, Vancouver with remote opportunity
Closing date: February 16th, 2024
Hours of Work: 8:00am – 4:00pm
Requisition # EDNPRFeb6E

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

The Provincial Health Services Authority ( ) 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
Requisition # EDNPRFeb6E-2412529
Work Site 1333 West Broadway, Vancouver BC, V6H 1G9
Job Type Regular, Full-Time
Salary/Rate $150,803.00 – $226,205.00 / Year
FTE
Hours of Work 0800 – 1600
Work Days Monday – Friday
Expiry Date 16-Feb-2024

Expected salary

Location

Vancouver, BC

Job date

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:20:29 GMT

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