Health Emergency Management Specialist

7 days ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PHSA Full time

Health Emergency Management (HEM) Specialist

Health Emergency Management BC

Lower Mainland, BC / Vancouver Island, BC


Reporting to a Director or Manager, Health Emergency Management BC (HEMBC), the Specialist provides advice and guidance to health authority leadership, management and staff on emergency management for an assigned geographic or program portfolio.

The Specialist works closely with health authority leadership, advising on emergency management matters and leads operations during emergency events.

The Specialist consults with a range of internal and external partners, including partners from the Ministry of Health (MoH), Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Emergency Management and Climate Readiness (EMCR), local governments, Indigenous communities, and First Nations Health Authority to ensure appropriate integration of HEMBC planning activities with similar activities across the provincial healthcare system.


What you'll do

  • Provide advice and guidance to health authority leadership, ensuring that emergency management principles are central to decisionmaking and to minimize the impact of emergencies on the health system. Make recommendations to HEMBC's leadership team on ways to improve emergency management in the health system.
  • Lead and/or project manage multistakeholder/cross sector projects specific to the development, implementation, maintenance and evaluation of emergency management plans, based on accreditation and international standards and best practices for the assigned geographic or program portfolio as a single point of contact for the assigned area; identify and recommend activities and resources to support continuous improvement in emergency management.
  • Work with health authority leadership within a specific health authority portfolio in addition to relevant external organizations, including local governments, government ministries, and nongovernmental organizations (NGSs) to establish work plans and lead portfolio specific projects, within the parameters set by their leader and HEMBC's Senior Leadership Team. Set the direction of the work plans by performing duties such as establishing a portfolio specific committee and negotiating consensus on the priorities and deliverables of the program. Negotiate with health authority leadership to determine goals, objectives, and deliverables.
  • Work in collaboration with a variety of health authority programs to determine emergency management strategies; support plan development, implementation and maintenance to ensure continuity, consistency and standardization of strategies across the region and province.
  • Represent HEMBC and health authorities on committees with a wide variety of health sector and external partners, at the executive, regional, and local levels. Support emergency management communication linkages across / between sites and programs, between health authorities, with the Ministry of Health, and with external (nonhealth) partners as the emergency management liaison.
  • Lead planning efforts based on current, emerging, and urgent risks, to support mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery efforts.
  • Develop and provide emergency management education and training sessions through methods such as reviewing current plans and identifying gaps; revise current educational/training materials and develop new/changed processes to deliver training/educational materials; maintain and deliver an ongoing and regular plan for exercising and the testing of applicable health emergency plans to measure plan effectiveness and to identify mitigation, planning response and recovery needs to improve outcomes.
  • Provide guidance, advice and support for emergency facilities and equipment, which may include guidelines, training, and testing, including guidance and support on how to design and maintain specialized equipment.
  • Develop and maintain emergency management manuals and documentation. Produce written documentation, including briefing notes, presentations, and afteraction reviews, and implements systems to organize and keep track of information, work requests or progress. Work with key stakeholders to develop integrated information and reporting systems to support health emergency management incident reporting.
  • Assist with the development and management of the portfolio's budget, to ensure expenditures fall within budgetary guidelines. Lead the development of project proposals, including developing and managing project budgets.
  • Provide coaching and mentoring to staff on emergency management protocols, and support growth through feedback, instruction and encouragement.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

What you bring

Qualifications:

  • A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in emergency management, the social sciences, geography, business administration and/or a related field and five (5) years' recent related experience i

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