Practice Lead | Seniors Specialized Care Transformation

Who are we looking for?
Interior Health is looking for a permanent full time Practice Lead, Seniors Specialized Care Transformation to join our team!
If you are interested in expanding your career opportunities and further developing your skills, this is the position for you!
The worksite location for this position is flexible and can be located anywhere within British Columbia.
How will you create an impact?
The Practice Lead, provides clinical expertise and leadership to the programs and services within the area of responsibility. The Practice Lead develops and recommends program plans, standards, and guidance documents, and works alongside partners to support implementation. The Practice Lead ensures all plans, standards, and guidance documents are person-centered, consistent with current evidence and best practice, and support the strategic objectives of the organization and Ministry of Health policy direction. The Practice Lead provides leadership to quality improvement and evaluation initiatives by assisting in design, interpreting data, supporting change management and scale and spread of the outcomes.
The Practice Lead will be expected to support the success of the Clinical Operations portfolio by developing strong, collaborative relationships with operational and physician leaders. The Practice lead must leverage these relationships to understand and respond to issues and opportunities within operations, champion and build support for change, ensure new initiatives are sound, successfully execute their implementation and support sustainability.
Some Key Duties May Include

• Provides clinical expertise into the development of plans, policies, processes, procedures, strategies and priorities, ensuring that proposals are robust, operationally feasible and can be expected to deliver a clearly-described person-centered benefit and high quality service delivery.
• Provides content expertize into existing and emerging policies, regulations, standards, processes and procedures to guide consistent and high quality service delivery
• Maintains a strong working knowledge of current policies, procedures, evidence and best practice, using that knowledge to inform planning and implementing initiatives.
• Researches, develops, and implements plans to address emerging priorities of care for issues where no current program or structure exists.
• Collaborates with multiple stakeholders to identify, design, and address service and program gaps that exist, develop recommendations for addressing those gaps and supporting success change management.
• Participates in the development and/or develops indicators for the portfolio in collaboration with the Operational Division of the portfolio and, as required, other portfolios across IH.
• Continuously reviews the operating environment to identify opportunities and/or gaps, identifying solutions and recommending priorities within existing approved plans, strategies and organizational priorities.
• Monitors and responds to changing health status needs. Collects, compiles, analyzes, and interprets statistical data to monitor program outcomes, enhance performance and identify emerging issues and trends.
• Develops service goals and monitoring frameworks for contracted services, and supports contract managers to review contract performance.
• Liaises with internal partners, stakeholders, programs, and portfolios.

Some Of The Benefits Of Joining Interior Health
An attractive remuneration package and excellent career prospects await the right candidate. We offer one of the best benefit packages and pension plans in Canada. In addition to Medical, Dental and Extended Health coverage, we also offer paid annual vacation starting at 4 weeks (20 days) up to a maximum of 7 weeks (35 days). We also offer an attractive defined employee pension plan, disability and life insurance, and options for maternity &/or paternity leave top-up.
Interior Health strives to create an environment where you enjoy the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you. Together, we create great workplaces. Apply today!
Why Interior Health is a Top 100 BC Employer
Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).