Psychological Health and Safety Practice Leader

1 week ago

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada PHSA Full time

Psychological Health and Safety Practice Leader
PHSA Corporate

Vancouver, BC


In accordance with the Mission, Vision, Values and strategic direction of PHSA, safety, including both patient and employee safety, is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA.

As such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.


This position will be primarily responsible for providing Psychological Health and Safety services to the BC Children's campus, in addition to PHSA-wide service.


Reporting to the Human Resources Director of Psychological Health and Safety, the Psychological Health and Safety (PHS) Practice Leader works in close partnership with Senior Directors, Program Managers, practice and team leaders/supervisors to continuously implement the Canadian National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the workplace.

The Psychological Health and Safety Practice Leader is a change agent, responsible for representing and providing professional leadership, consultation, education, direction and direct services to enhance and create a psychologically healthy, safe and sustainable workforce.

Working from a proactive and responsive stance, the PHS Practice Leader is responsible for Provincial and Health Authority wide initiatives that promote wellbeing, resilience and psychological health in the workplace and respond to current psychological health and safety risk factors identified within specific program, team and units.

This includes liaising with executive and senior leadership, professional discipline clinicians/leaders and others, and representing psychological health and safety in decision making forums.

As an active member of senior operational and practice leadership committees, participates in the development and implementation of program and organizational decision making that have operational and/or practice implications that address and consider the psychosocial risk factors in the workplace.


In addition to the day to day operationalization and implementation of the Canadian National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the workplace, the Psychological Health and Safety Practice Leader, as part of the Psychological Health and Safety Team, is responsible for the ongoing design and implementation of extraordinary event response, recovery and renewal of the workforce.


What you'll do

  • Provides psychological health and safety consultation and direct supervision to PHSA Psychological Health and Safety Lead positions.
  • Provides leadership in creating, articulating, innovating and sustaining Ministry of Health, SWITCH BC and specific Health Authority vision for psychological health and safety for the provincial workforce and strategies for implementation of the Canadian National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety.
  • In collaboration with the Director of Psychological Health and Safety and other Senior Leaders, leverageexpertise and training to lead the development and delivery of education, training of health authority and provincewide resources that align with Ministry of Health, SWITCH BC and Health Authority psychological health and safety priorities.
  • Directs and performs informal and formal monitoring and surveillance to identify existing and emerging psychosocial risks in programs and provides analysis to executive and senior leadership to inform direction and allocation of resources to mitigate psychosocial risks in the workplace.
  • Responds to identified and emerging risks through direct consultation, /intervention with senior leadership/executive, program leaders, teams and individual.
  • Participates in the development, implementation, evaluation of systems and processes to foster sustainability of resources, initiatives and practice to protect and prevent psychological injury in the workplace. (For example, Peer Support, Critical Incident Stress Management, Wellness Activities, Resilience training)
  • Supports organizational strategy deployment, ensuring that psychological health and safety priorities are aligned and embedded with organization and provincial strategic priorities including programwide and projectspecific initiatives (e.g. surge response, operational and clinical change management)
  • Tracks, analyzes and reports progress in relation to designated performance indicators in alignment with the psychological health and safety management system (PHSMS).
  • Develops and/or guides development with leaders, of systems, mechanisms and structures that support employees in exercising accountability and responsibility in mitigating the psychosocial risk factors that define a psychologically healthy workplace.
  • Supports policy development and analysis activities, including the review of organization policies affecting patients, clients and families and caregivers.
  • Monitors expenditures within established budgets, identifies efficiencies, and promotes optimal use of resources. Makes

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