Leader, Career Pathways & Advanced Training - #187905

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $54.16 - $77.86 / hour

Job Summary

Fraser Health is seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to join our team as a Leader, Career Pathways & Advanced Training. This full-time position offers an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the future of healthcare provider development within our organization. Working with a team of educators, the successful candidate to this role will design, implement, evaluate and sustain a regional nursing new entrant pathway for new graduates, internationally educated and experienced new to Fraser Health.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Lead the strategic planning, design, implementation, promotion, evaluation, and maintenance of processes, infrastructure, and resources related to assigned programs across Fraser Health.
• Program Development: Review, develop, and establish standards, policies, protocols, and processes for the design and delivery of programs. Lead applicable committees and conduct continuous quality improvement reviews to ensure effective implementation of quality improvements.
• Evaluation and Monitoring: Evaluate and monitor the success and outcomes of programs, ensuring they reflect leading practices in the industry, evidence-based practice, and provincial and federal professional regulations.
• Collaboration and Liaison: Collaborate and liaise with internal stakeholders (Talent Acquisition & Onboarding, People Information and Systems, People Strategies, Human Resources Consulting, clinical programs, site/work locations, networks) and external organizations (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Advanced Education and Training, academic institutions, regulatory bodies, unions, other health authorities).
• Change Management: Lead the implementation of change initiatives, including new programs and reviewed policies, protocols, and processes. Develop and evaluate program objectives, performance metrics, outcomes, and corrective actions.
  
  

Education and Experience:

• Master's Degree in a health care profession, education, or a health care related field.
• Minimum seven (7) years of recent related experience in a complex health care environment, including progressive professional practice, education, project management, and leadership experience.
• Current practicing registration or certification with the relevant regulatory college and/or professional association in British Columbia.
  
  

Why Fraser Health?

Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields. Fraser Health offers opportunities for career growth and advancement and competitive benefits, including but not limited, to:

• Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
• Generous Vacation Time: Eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
• Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
• Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
• Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
• TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes.
• Additional employee discounts and perks available
• *Eligibility based on employment status
  
  

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Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Leads the strategic planning/design, implementation, promotion, evaluation, and maintenance of the processes and infrastructure related to assigned Fraser Health programs including, but not limited to, career pathways and advanced practice education for nursing and health professional training programs. Accountable for the outcomes of these programs and ensures that evidence-based best practices across Fraser Health are used to support effective processes and professional practice. Develops standards, services and organizational policies for the design and delivery these programs, leads large system change, and manages assigned staff and budget.

Responsibilities

• Leads the strategic planning/design, implementation, promotion, evaluation and maintenance of the processes, infrastructure, and resources related to the assigned programs across Fraser Health.
• Provides leadership by reviewing, developing, and establishing standards, policies, protocols and processes for the design and delivery of programs. Leads applicable committees and conducts continuous quality improvement reviews of programs ensuring effective implementation of quality improvements.
• Evaluates and monitors the success and outcomes of programs and works to ensure that programs/initiatives reflect leading practice in the industry, evidence-based practice, and provincial and federal professional regulation.
• Collaborates and liaises with internal stakeholders such as Talent Acquisition & Onboarding, People Information and Systems, People Strategies, Human Resources Consulting, clinical programs, site/work locations, networks, and external organizations such as Ministry of Health, Ministry of Advanced Education and Training, academic institutions, regulatory bodies, unions, other health authorities.
• Leads the implementation of change initiatives including new programs, and new or reviewed policies, protocols and processes. Develops and evaluates programs' objectives and performance metrics, outcomes, and corrective actions.
• Collaborates with new graduates and transitioning health care providers, as well as their point of care leaders, to provide practice leadership that supports transition, retention, healthy practice environment, and safe quality care. Ensures and facilitates effective communication processes among stakeholders and program participants/target audience.
• Supports and provides consultation to operational and practice leaders through the development of career pathway and advanced training support resources.
• Manages assigned employees including hiring, orientation, coordinating team activities, performance evaluation, coaching, training, discipline and dismissal.
• Prepares and manages assigned budget to reflect the ongoing needs of the portfolio and within departmental guidelines and Fraser Health standards.
• Oversees the functionality of the related website and ensures that contents are complete and current, easily accessed, and meet the developed criteria.
• Creates a prioritization system for new requests of transition support in new practice settings, based on criteria such as safety and risk.
• Monitors practice and education trends, identifies opportunities for improvements that support the consistent transition of healthcare providers to practice. Evaluates policies, guidelines, and tools/resources that could be considered for use at Fraser Health.
• Represents department on regional, provincial and external agencies, committees and projects and fosters effective linkages with other organizations.
  
  

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Master's Degree in a health care profession, education, or a health care related field plus minimum seven (7) years of recent related experience in a complex health care environment including progressive professional practice, education, project management and leadership experience. Current practicing registration or certification with the relevant regulatory college and/or professional association in British Columbia.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Strong skills in strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of professional development programs across a large complex health care organization.
• Comprehensive knowledge of adult learning principles and educational design.
• Ability to lead and participate effectively on collaborative change initiatives.
• Solid understanding of health professional orientation, transition/change, and practice support.
• Familiarity with current trends and issues relating to professional practice.
• Demonstrated customer service orientation.
• Advanced writing skills and ability to articulate policy and guidelines.
• Advanced consultation, facilitation, and decision-making skills.
• Proven flexibility with a high level of initiative and self direction.
• Proficiency in the use of current technology and related software.
  
  

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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