Regional Practice Lead, Research and Knowledge Translation

Fraser Health is seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to join our team as a Regional Practice Lead, Research and Knowledge Translation. This temporary full-time position will play a crucial role in promoting knowledge mobilization and integrating research evidence into practice within our health services.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Knowledge Translation:

• Lead activities to promote knowledge mobilization.
• Support LTC care home leadership, staff, and physicians in integrating research evidence into practice.
• Develop strategies for the dissemination and uptake of research findings.
• Provide consultation, education, and support for integrated knowledge translation.

1. Research and Scholarship:

• Lead collaborative efforts to identify research questions and design research frameworks.
• Engage in data collection, analysis, and dissemination of research results.
• Collaborate with Practice Leaders, educators, and knowledge coordinators.
• Pursue KT and research funding with appropriate partners.
• Manage KT research grants and supervise grant-related activities.
• Supervise research staff, including administrative assistants and research analysts.

1. Capacity Building, Teaching, and Education:

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and guidance to staff.
• Prepare and lead education and training events to enhance KT capacity.
• Support data access and documentation for research proposals and ethics reviews.
• Participate in provincial and national initiatives to enhance KT and research capacity.
• Facilitate training opportunities in KT at various levels.

Education and Experience:

• Master's degree in a health or social science field, with training and/or experience in health services research, research methods, and knowledge translation.
• Minimum of eight years of experience in health services delivery, management, or research, particularly in LTC settings, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Current practicing registration with a BC health professional college.

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

The Regional Practice Lead, Research and Knowledge Translation practices in accordance with the standards of professional practice and code of ethics as outlined by their own professional College. The Regional Practice Lead works in partnership across the organization to lead, cultivate, and facilitate a range of knowledge translation activities, enhancing the use of evidence in practice and decision-making. The Lead is an advocate and active role model for scholarly practice, raising the profile and engagement of research, evidence-informed practice/decision-making, and knowledge translation in the geographic area. The Lead services Fraser Health broadly by supporting individuals and teams, within and across Fraser Health, through the provision of mentorship, guidance, support, and expertise in knowledge mobilization and research-related activities and functions as an expert and liaison to the research community provincially and nationally. The Lead is responsible for supervising and managing knowledge mobilization and research-related (funded and unfunded) activities; promoting collaborative research partnerships; assisting in the development of policy, procedures, and guidelines related to implementing research evidence into practice; and working with other Health Authorities in BC to capitalize on province-wide research and knowledge translation opportunities.

1. Knowledge Translation
Leads activities to promote knowledge mobilization, including:

• Supporting LTC care home leadership and staff and physicians to integrate research evidence into practice.
• Developing strategies for the participatory and active dissemination and uptake of research findings.
• Providing consultation, education, and support for integrated knowledge translation of key evidence for the advancement of practice, improvement of population health, and/or enhancement of health services.
• Collaborating at local, provincial, and national levels to identify and engage in opportunities for capacity building in knowledge translation.
• Responding to internal requests for evidence synthesis that informs practice or decision- making and supervising literature review and integration by research assistants or analysts.
• Serving as a knowledge broker to connect and network research teams.
• Facilitating communication and fostering the development of research partnerships between Fraser Health employees and departments.
• Serving as a primary liaison for Fraser Health and its external academic partners, including universities, funding agencies, and provincial and national research or knowledge translation bodies.
• Serving as a Fraser Health representative on provincial and national research and knowledge translation networks.
• Monitoring provincial and national research priorities and opportunities and communicating these to Fraser Health, provincial counterparts, and university staff in order to develop partnerships.

2. Research and Scholarship
Adopting an integrated knowledge translation approach, leads collaborative efforts to identify research questions, design creative and applied research frameworks, engage in data collection and analysis, and disseminate research results by:

• Collaborating with Practice Leaders, educators, knowledge coordinators, and other key teams within Fraser Health to foster, guide, and support the pursuit of research and evidence-informed practice.
• Engaging with academic institutions to stimulate and guide partnerships
• Pursuing KT and research funding in collaboration with appropriate partners.
• Managing KT research grants and supervising grant-related activities.
• Managing and supervising research staff, including administrative assistants, research assistants, research analysts, and others as appropriate.
• Engaging in research evaluation, using evidence-informed approaches to facilitate micro- and macro-level learning from the process of doing research.
• Serving as a Fraser Health Research Ethics Board delegated reviewer.
• Providing leadership for Fraser Health peer-review of KT research proposals.
• Raising the profile of Fraser Health through active publication in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.
• Reporting on the progress of knowledge translation activities to Fraser Health senior leadership and the Fraser Health Board as requested.

3. Capacity Building, Teaching, and Education

• Provides leadership, mentorship, and guidance to staff in their support of individual or team consultations related to knowledge translation.
• Prepares and leads education and training events to enhance KT capacity.
• Supports the navigation of data access and documentation required for research proposals and/or ethics reviews.
• Participates in provincial and national initiatives to enhance KT and research capacity for health systems strengthening.
• Facilitates local, provincial, and national training opportunities in KT.

Education and Experience

Master's degree in a health or social science field, including training and/or experience in health services research, research methods, and knowledge translation and exchange plus a minimum of eight years of experience is required in health services delivery, management, or research; particularly in LTC setting, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Current practicing registration with a BC health professional college.

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:

• Ability to lead research and/or knowledge translation and exchange activities and projects.
• Exceptional strength in fostering and developing partnerships.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize workload.
• Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare research, research methods, health research priorities, and current healthcare issues.
• Demonstrated knowledge of grant and project management.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with a successful publication track record.
• Ability to effectively support and collaborate with Health Authority staff and university research faculty.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team, to take initiative to promote research activities.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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