Come work as a Director, Community Strategic Initiatives with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Director, Community Strategic Initiatives to join the team. Reporting to the Executive Director, Community Strategic Initiatives, the Director, Community Strategic Initiatives is responsible for providing leadership and subject area knowledge to plan, monitor and evaluate the Community, Seniors and Home Health Services Transformation across the health authority and support client and family -focused seamless care that is integrated across services. The Director will work in collaboration with clinical leadership, identifying and setting strategic direction; ensuring alignment with both provincial and organizational priorities; and guiding the provision of safe, effective, and quality client and family-focused care. The Director will facilitate the planning and implementation (including identifying resource implications), performance monitoring, and evaluating initiatives set out in the strategic direction while collaborating with various leadership groups with the goal of setting a vision, communicating priorities, and facilitating consensus among diverse partners.

The Director is responsible for making relevant decisions that impact clinicians and other interested parties working both within and externally to the Health Authority. They will provide strategic counsel to senior leaders and, in turn, influence the goals, objectives policies, service delivery models, and resource allocation within VCH and the province, while also providing leadership to the network of clinicians and operational leaders across the health authority and province-wide.

Apply today to join our team!

As a Director, Community Strategic Initiatives with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:

• Lead a collaborative development process and coordinate the implementation of Health Authority-wide and/or provincial strategic and service delivery plans for the clinical service area based on best practices. This includes researching and developing potential approaches, standards, and work plans; supervising staff; ensuring deliverables are on time/task/budget and aligned with both internal and external priorities; liaising and building relationships; and working with diverse partners, including content area professionals, medical and operational leadership both locally and regionally.
• Develop and lead innovative quality improvement initiatives that inform the continuous development of evidence-based, best practice clinical services across the Health Authority. Activities include coordinating the design, implementation, management, and monitoring of electronic surveillance tools.
• Serve as the Data Steward for data and information related to the assigned area for the Health Authority.
• Continuously improve, standardize, eliminate waste, and add value from the perspective of the client and family, the clinician, and the general public. Leads and/or supports program evaluation and monitoring client outcomes for key initiatives and investments.
• Develop and monitor an annual budget including monitoring budget performance, planning, and adjusting deliverables to meet projections and annual targets; approving expenditures; and fiscal reporting.
• Develop regular and ad hoc status reports for internal and external audiences. Proactively identifies areas where progress is not meeting targets and works collaboratively with internal and external partners to develop and implement corrective actions.
• Provide information and data to support responses from other senior leaders and ensures appropriate interpretation of the information. Coordinates information gathering from both a site and provincial level to be able to formulate responses within a timely manner.
• Lead the strategic communication planning for the Community, Seniors, and Home Health Services Transformation portfolio to ensure accurate and consistent messaging internal and external to the Health Authority.
• Acts as a liaison, negotiating and building consensus between provincial and organizational partners.
• Create and support clinician, medical provider, partner, client, and family working groups as needed. Provides a forum for improved communication.
• Recruit, hire, implement performance management, discipline, and terminate staff within the portfolio as is required to meet portfolio and organization objectives. Leads the development of educational plans, in-service training, and mentorship to support individual employee professional development and provides talent management and succession planning.
• In alignment with VCH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, maintain a healthy and safe work environment through complying with and implementing applicable Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, responding to requests from WSBC, identifying hazards and communicating risks, ensuring compliance with employee training, conducting effective incident investigations, and implementing required corrective actions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education & Experience

• A Master’s degree and demonstrated achievement of competence and mastery as a result of extensive experience and/or study in a health-related field or Business Administration.
• Seven to ten years of management experience, including program leadership experience in a complex healthcare environment that includes community and seniors’ care.

Knowledge & Abilities

• Ability to leverage exceptional relationship-building skills and find innovative ways to communicate and build consensus with diverse groups regarding complex issues.
• Ability to communicate through a variety of mediums.
• Ability to work with a diverse group of key internal and external partners.
• Precision and great attention to detail despite short timelines and rapidly changing priorities.
• Ability to identify and facilitate conflict resolution with diplomacy and political savvy.
• Demonstrated change management implementation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a matrix management structure.
• Ability to be innovative in finding solutions to complex problems.
• Ability to define own continuing education needs and maintain competency through reading literature, management workshops, seminars, and available educational offerings.
• Flexibility with respect to how, where, and when work is performed. The position entails unpredictable work hours and competing workload demands.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• A valid BC Driver’s license.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Orlando Cerrato, at executivecareers@vch.ca.

WHY JOIN VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH?

VCH is a world class innovator in medical care, research, and teaching, delivering service to more than one million BC residents. At VCH, we embrace thinking boldly, taking smart risks, and "going first" when we believe it will lead to the best possible outcomes for patients and their families. We invite you to join us in creating healthy lives in healthy communities by showcasing our passion for care, connection to the communities we serve and our culture of teamwork that makes VCH a great place to work.

• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan.
• Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities.
• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families.
• Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers.
• Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff.

At Vancouver Coastal Health, our vision of healthy lives in healthy communities inspires us and our values and pillars guide us. We support equitable practices, diverse teams and inclusive environments, which are integral to creating welcoming spaces where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and feel supported. We encourage applications from equity-deserving communities, including Indigenous Peoples and members of racialized groups, people with disabilities and people of all gender identities and expressions and sexual orientation.

Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2023.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for this posting.

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Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.