Interior Health Authority Looking for Leadership Mentor | Clinical Development at British Columbia, Canada Full Time

Location: This position is flexible within the Interior Health region!

What We Offer

An attractive remuneration package

Excellent career prospects

Employer paid training/education

Work-life balance

How Will You Create An Impact

The Leadership Mentor, Clinical Development is responsible for building the capacity of Clinical Managers to operationally manage their respective clinical settings to meet organizational targets and enhance patient care outcomes. Builds expertise in operational management that includes staff, performance, patient flow, and financial management. In collaboration with Clinical and Operations partners, utilizes just-in-time mentoring and feedback to support implementation of new learning into practice and provides leadership in support of best practice models and initiatives that support the effectiveness of Clinical Managers in their role.

What Will You Work On

• Actively mentors and provides feedback to new Clinical Managers to strengthen operational management including staffing, performance management, patient flow, bed management, strategic planning, problem-resolution, continuous improvement, health and safety, forecasting staffing requirements, business case development, organizational systems, and collecting and analyzing trend data in clinical settings.
• Works to strengthen the managers’ ability in identifying their priorities, achieve clarity on their job requirements, and aligning their operational and personal performance with Interior Health’s goals and objectives.
• Provides one-to-one and group education, just-in-time support and mentoring in relation to business/operational management activities for clinical managers. Acts as a resource for assessing and resolving unit issues.
• Supports new clinical managers as they establish business goals and craft personal development plans that enable Clinical Managers to achieve successful outcomes in collaboration with organizational content experts and their respective director/supervisor as appropriate.
• Provides mentoring, feedback and support to new clinical managers with just in time best practice operations/business orientation/education to enable their effectiveness in service delivery and optimizing patient care outcomes.
• Supports new Clinical Manager’s development and application of leadership program learning to become champions of progressive leadership and effective operational management.
• Works with new Managers to identify strengths and areas for development. Supports them to establish personal development and business goals that will enable them to achieve successful outcomes.
• Supports, coordinates and implements initiatives and new program development related to supporting the clinical manager role. Responsible for ongoing continuous evaluation and reporting of programs and services, including ensuring projects/programs are data driven, evidence informed and outcome focused. Maintains expert knowledge related to the methods and tools of continuous quality improvement and applies these approaches to areas of improvement within their respective portfolio.
• Utilizes program reporting systems, including triaging and tracking systems for service requests and services provided, to ensure goals and objectives are met.
• Engages with Mentorship Lead and management to develop strategies for future training and retention activities.
• Carries out responsibilities in accordance with health and safety requirements. Immediately reports unsafe situations by notifying supervisor or other appropriate personnel

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).