Interior Health Authority Looking for Lead | Primary Care at Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada Full Time

What We Offer

• An attractive remuneration package
• Excellent career prospects
• Employer paid training/education
• Employer paid vacation
• Medical Service Plan
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Extended Health & Dental coverage
• Municipal Pension Plan
• Work-life balance

How Will You Create An Impact

The Lead, Primary Care, under the leadership of the Director of Urgent and Primary Care Centres, will design strategy and set standards of a regional nature, which will enable the work that falls within the portfolio of Primary Care Planning. The Lead will collaborate with other portfolios within Interior Health and key partners, such as physicians, to ensure the seamless integration of patient-centered services within the full Integrated System of Care. By assessing and identifying critical issues and strategic opportunities during primary and community care transformation, the Lead will develop strategic recommendations for the Primary Care Planning portfolio. Recommendations, resources, policies and directives developed by the Lead will require an analysis and consolidation of Ministry policy and strategy as well as Interior Health (IH) objectives, evidence-based practice, emerging best practices, standards, and existing or new regulations.

The Lead will focus on the planning and development of Primary Care throughout the health region with the local primary care teams. In addition, the Lead will support the linking of Primary Care with specialized community services. The Lead will provide leadership to the teams to meet the attributes of Primary Care Networks, with a focus on patients and family centred care.

The Lead is expected to contribute to and maintain a vision of the Integrated System of Care.

What Will You Work On

• Leads and contributes to planning and implementation of Primary Care Networks by leveraging research and knowledge on Canadian and international standards, existing and emerging regulatory direction, evidence-based practices, and emerging innovative practices. Develops core and supplementary planning documents for a diverse range of programming areas consistently within the Primary Care Planning portfolio and occasionally across IH portfolios.
• Fosters and maintains effective relationships with a broad range of internal partners and external organizations, agencies, institutions, interest groups, Ministries, and Municipalities to achieve the Primary Care Planning, Health Authority, and Ministry of Health goals, objectives, and performance measures.
• Keeps pace with changes by scanning the environment for relevant trends, alignment, and integration opportunities with other portfolios and developments affecting the portfolio’s programs.
• Plans and develops IH-wide Primary Care policy and practice standards that align with the redesign vision. Specifically developing processes and procedures with enabling portfolios to support population level assessment, standardization, implementation, and evaluation of a range of Primary Care services.
• Identifies strategic issues and collaborates with appropriate partners across IH to assess the situation and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensures the strategic alignment of all activities related to Primary Care with provincial and Health Region vision and strategy and the full Integrated System of Care. This includes the support for patient and family centred care and the seamless transition of care between acute, community, and tertiary care including services provided by physicians and community partners.
• Creates innovative solutions and designs complex integration frameworks that affect multiple programs and services. Researches, develops, and implements plans to address emerging priorities of care for issues where no current program or structure exists.
• Provides support for Regional Knowledge Coordinators in the development and delivery of education across the Health Authority and provides a “policy interpretation” for operational leaders as required.
• Contributing to the development and implementation of primary care performance measurement and continuous quality improvement.
• Responds to changes in the global healthcare environment and participates in or leads various ad-hoc projects as directed including guiding on process and methodology.

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!

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).