Practice Lead, Cancer Care Network

 Job title :PRACTICE LEAD, CANCER CARE NETWORK
Community :FLEXIBLE
Facility :FLEXIBLE
Status :PERMANENT FULL TIME

Position Summary

Are you looking to make a difference in health care? Are you able to guide individuals toward the vision while maintaining group cohesion, motivation, commitment, and effectiveness? We are looking for a Practice Lead, Cancer Care Network to join our team.

About the role:

The Practice Lead provides clinical expertise and leadership to the Cancer Care Network. The Practice Lead is responsible for planning, coordinating, and facilitating the implementation of regional strategies by working collaboratively with operational and medical leaders. The Practice Lead develops and recommends plans, program standards, and guidance documents, and works alongside partners to support implementation, ensuring patient-centered, consistent with current evidence and best practice, and support the strategic objectives of the organization. The Practice Lead provides leadership to program development, quality improvement and evaluation initiatives by assisting in design, interpreting data, and supporting scale and spread of the outcomes.

The Practice Lead works in a co-management model with the Medical Director and Clinical Operations leadership to ensure a consistent approach to meet organizational priorities that increases the quality of care to patients, clients, and residents who receive healthcare services. The Practice Lead is committed to high quality, research-based practice with measurable outcomes.

The Practice Lead works as a collaborative member of cross-portfolio operational teams to facilitate regional standards, while recognizing local site differences in capacity and resources. During the implementation of regional initiatives, the Practice Lead strives to build capacity within the site for ongoing sustainable practice. The Practice Lead will be expected to support success of Clinical Operations throughout Interior Health 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, and successfully support operations to execute their implementation.

Some typical duties:

Quality, Safety, and Effectiveness
• Facilitates the implementation of quality improvement initiatives that inform the continuous development of the assigned program(s) and/or service(s) and other operational strategies.
• Collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams to examine client-centered processes and performance/ quality indicators to measure the effectiveness of service delivery.
• Collaborates on the implementation of evidence-based practice standards for IH-wide service delivery.

Communication
• Develops strong relationships with operational leaders to ensure full understanding of system needs and the impact of changes.
• Ensures frequent, clear communication with stakeholders throughout change processes.
• Provides information to other departments to support their activities.
• Provides verbal and written reports and presentations as required.

Efficiency and Sustainability
• Collaborates to plan and implement initiatives that improve the flow of patients across the full continuum of care. The focus of the work is to continuously improve and standardize services from the perspective of the patient, the public, and the clinician.
• Applies principles of continuous quality improvement and methodology in planning and implementing programs and initiatives.

Strategic Planning
• Maintains a strong working knowledge of current evidence and best practice, using that knowledge to inform planning.
• Collaboratively coordinates and implements Health Authority-wide and/or provincial strategic and service delivery plans, taking direction from objectives and strategies.
• Considers potential approaches and work plans, taking into consideration the diverse stakeholder needs and resources available.
• Collaboratively works with stakeholders to inform planning, based on best practices through consultation and engagement.
• Gathers, synthesizes, and clearly communicates large amounts of complex information and data to support planning activities.
• Collaboratively identifies, prioritizes, and assists with the implementation of initiatives to improve efficiency, quality, coordination, and integration of services along the continuum of care.
• Using a wide range of skills and abilities, as well as a broad system perspective, understands local processes, identifies existing service gaps or issues through multiple clinical reviews, and makes recommendations for change,
• Collaborates with multiple stakeholders to identify and address system-wide gaps that exist.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Some of the Benefits of Joining Interior Health:

Interior Health offers an attractive remuneration package in keeping with your qualifications and experience. In addition to a competitive wage, we offer a total compensation package. We have one of the best benefit packages and pension plans in Canada. In addition to Medical, Dental and Extended Health coverage, we 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.

If this sounds like a perfect opportunity for you to hone your skills and work with a fantastic team, apply today!

Interior Health now offers assistance from an Aboriginal Employment Advisor. If you self-identify as Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) and if you would like assistance with the application process, job readiness, interview readiness or tips for resume and cover letter writing, send your question via email to AboriginalEmployment@interiorhealth.ca to be redirected to the Employment Advisor.

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Qualifications

Education, Training and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a clinical discipline or health-related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Five to seven years of related oncology experience, including experience in implementing and
• Or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities
• Demonstrated knowledge and the ability to work with diverse populations, incorporating diverse perspectives, values, and approaches into planning.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and analyze situations and problems such that viable solutions are found. Approaches challenges and complexities from a systems perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to guide individuals toward the vision while maintaining group cohesion, motivation, commitment, and effectiveness. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement strategies and opportunities in a dynamic environment that leads to identified outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects at a time; Identifies synergy between various initiatives to integrate new knowledge and processes with existing practices.
• Working knowledge of processes related to patient/client movement through hospitals and communities.
• Ability to utilize computerized software/hardware technology.
• Ability to travel as required.