Come work as a Leadership Coach with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!

Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Leadership Coach to join the Leadership Support Team. Apply today to join our team!  

As a Leadership Coach with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:

• Be responsible for ongoing development of corporate and clinical leadership teams, blending individual and collective team feedback to enhance the clinical leadership team’s performance.
• Be the internal culture catalyst, business partner, change leader and facilitator dedicated to leadership teams to inspire a culture of caring, learning and results.
• Provide coaching support to leaders individually and in teams to sharpen or modify leadership team behavior to align with VCH’s values and to improve performance and organizational effectiveness.
• Utilize team based coaching to shift mindset and build skillset and capacity through just in time delivery of modular training that is designed to meet time constraints of operations.
• Collaborate with operational Directors, Managers, Physicians, and Front Line leadership teams.
  
  

Education & Experience

• Minimum requirement of a Master’s Degree in Organizational Development, Business Administration, Psychology, Adult Education or Leadership.
• Five (5) to ten (10) years’ progressive experience in leadership team coaching and organizational development.
• Certificate or equivalent in Coaching and Leadership Development.

Knowledge & Abilities

• Displays comprehensive knowledge of leadership development, coaching and change management principles and methodologies and ability to coach team members on these skills.
• Demonstrated ability to gain the trust of intelligent, potentially skeptical leaders and be able to engage the individuals and the whole leadership team.
• Demonstrated ability to read in-the–moment, the multiple levels of dynamics that are occurring in the team. Demonstrates a deep theoretical and practical understanding of group dynamics and team development.
• Demonstrates significant results based coaching experience with individuals and groups.
• Fosters a climate of trust, safety, transparency and commitment.
• Demonstrated excellent presentation and group facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated awareness of power and its movement within a group, and comfort with intervening to affect the ways power is used in the group.
• Demonstrated ability to put into simple, jargon-less language what is observed and the presence to raise any issue with the team or its members at the right moment.
• A keen sense of the business of healthcare, its structures of the organization and its challenges.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; effectively facilitates, collaborates and negotiates with others, and has the ability to persuade and influence.
• Utilizes adult education principles and best practices to develop and oversee leadership team development.
• Strong organizational skills; able to prioritize, plan, organize workloads and manage client expectations.
• Anticipates future changes in practice, and recommends transition strategies that optimize the efficiency, appropriateness, consistency and quality of Employee Engagement Programs.
• Develops, manages, and evaluates program delivery in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders considering service delivery needs, demands and constraints within a complex environment.
• Negotiates and influences within a collaborative framework to resolve conflict.

As per Ministry of Health policy, all health care workers working in publicly-funded health care facilities are required to report their past receipt of certain vaccines or history of certain infections. Collecting these records will allow for offering of any missing vaccines, and for appropriate actions to be taken in the event of any future exposure to a communicable disease or during outbreaks. For all new hires and appointments to Vancouver Coastal Health, you will be asked to provide this information as part of the onboarding process.

Why Join Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH):

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 vital 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 BC’s Top Employers, Canada’s Best Diversity Employers and Canada's Top Employers for Young People in 2025.

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


***Employees of VCH must apply online via the Internal Career Portal on CareerHub, you are currently viewing the External Career Portal. Refer to the https://my.vch.ca/working-here/job-postings site for instructions on how to view internal job postings and how to apply as an employee. Current VCH employees who apply to this posting using this external site will be considered as an external candidate. Seniority will not apply.***

Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.