Fraser Health Authority Looking for Executive Director, Home and Community Care Regional Services at Surrey, British Columbia, Canada Full Time

The salary range for this position is CAD $79.38 – $119.06 / hour

Why Fraser Health?

Fraser Health (FH) is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to nearly 2 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. The Fraser region is home to 32 First Nations communities and 6 Métis Chartered communities. Our team of nearly 45,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: better health, best in health care.

Join Our Leadership Team! Executive Director – Home & Community Care Regional Services

Are you a seasoned leader passionate about shaping the future of healthcare delivery? Fraser Health is seeking a dynamic Executive Director to play a key role in the integration of services, ensuring a seamless, person and family-centered experience across the entire service continuum.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Drive annual budget planning, engage in strategic planning, and lead initiatives to achieve organizational objectives.
• Collaboration: Engage with diverse stakeholders, including community organizations, health authorities, and governmental/non-governmental organizations to achieve shared goals.
• Performance Management: Monitor and adjust operational performance, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Implement quality improvement processes and uphold industry standards.
• Governance and Decision-Making: Establish efficient governance structures, foster high-functioning teams, and uphold organizational policies.
• Representation: Represent Fraser Health in stakeholder meetings, promoting effective collaboration and issue resolution.
• Supervision and Coaching: Provide leadership and support to direct reports, contributing to their growth and development.
• Research and Evaluation: Promote and support research and formal program evaluation activities within the portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a healthcare-related discipline.
• Fifteen (15) years of progressively senior management experience, including leadership in a large healthcare organization.

Competencies:

• Demonstrates leadership practices aligned with the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring, and Courageous.
• Proficient in healthcare policies, funding practices, provincial health statutes, and utilization management strategies.

If you’re ready to make a transformative impact on healthcare, apply now to join our innovative team at Fraser Health!

Fraser Health values diversity in the work force and strives to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner.

Detailed Overview

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

In a manner consistent with the vision, values, purpose and commitments of Fraser Health, and with Ministry of Health policy direction, the Executive Director provides senior leadership for home and community care services. The role includes a combination of direct operational oversight, as well as the development and maintenance of strategic, collaborative leadership relationships to ensure a regional standard of equitable, effective and high quality services. This leader works closely with relevant regional medical directors and/or department heads.

The Executive Director partners with regional and geographic operational, strategic and medical leaders to pursue the integration of services to ensure a responsive, seamless, person and family centred experience of care – across the entire service continuum. This leader holds a key role in service design, implementation, evaluation and system sustainability.

The Executive Director will engage with community organizations and people with lived experience of health care use, other health authorities, first nations, governmental and non-governmental organizations, contracted providers, primary care providers, specialists, Fraser Health programs, services and corporate departments, as well as other relevant partners to achieve goals and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the annual operating budget allocated to the portfolio. Works within approved financial mandate; recommends and establishes priorities; engages in annual budget planning; monitors expenses and outcomes; identifies efficiencies and promotes optimal use of resources; reallocates resources to meet objectives; participates in/initiates requests for capital funding/business plans.
• Participates in, facilitates and/or leads strategic planning; identifies short, medium and long-term objectives; establishes projects/initiatives. Provides input into, and ensures alignment with organizational objectives and key results (OKRs) and maintains a portfolio work plan. Considers best practices and prepares relevant presentations, proposals and reports.
• Assesses progress to plan and adjusts course as required to address internal or external risks and/or changes impacting key areas of work. Reports to senior executive and the Board as required.
• Establishes monitoring and reporting systems to track operational performance and reassesses and adjusts these systems as appropriate. Uses data and benchmarks to guide evaluation and decision-making. Participates, in collaboration with others, in the development, implementation and maintenance of quality improvement processes. Ensures that quality of care measures are in place and that they reflect industry and accreditation standards.
• Establishes efficient and effective governance and decision-making structures/processes for the portfolio. Enables high-functioning team development based on principles of collaboration, effective communication and the pursuit of excellence. Promotes creativity and solution-focused problem solving.
• Upholds organizational policies. Provides supervision and coaching to direct reports to support their growth and development. Completes performance appraisals and engages in succession planning. Carries out performance management activities as required.
• Responds to or delegates/oversees the resolution of complaints and/or investigations.
• Represents Fraser Health in meetings with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to: the Ministry of Health; contracted providers; geographic and provincial health authorities; municipal leaders; First Nations; Divisions of Family Practice; Hospital Foundations; Office of the Seniors Advocate, BC Housing, clients and families. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships. Seeks collaboration and works to resolve issues in a timely, mutually satisfactory manner.
• Promotes and supports research and formal program evaluation activities.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in a healthcare related discipline, supplemented with fifteen (15) years’ progressively senior management experience including leadership in a large health care organization.

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:

• Knowledge of current provincial health care policies.
• Knowledge of funding practices with specific experience for funding of contracted long term care and assisted living care facilities and funding of Home Health/Home Support services.
• Knowledge of provincial health statutes.
• Knowledge of current and future health care issues.
• Knowledge of utilization management strategies and programs.