Clinical Specialist

15 hours ago


Kelowna, Canada Interior Health Authority Full time

Position Summary
Interior Health is looking for an experienced Clinical Specialist to join our team on a full time permanent basis and offers a flexible work location from within British Columbia.

What we offer:
-Employee & Family Assistance Program
-Employer paid training/education opportunities
-Employer paid vacation
-Medical Services Plan
-Employer paid insurance premiums
-Extended health & dental coverage
-Municipal Pension Plan
-Work-life balance

Salary Range:
Salary range for the position is $88,990 to $127,923. Interior Health establishes salaries within the minimum and maximum of the salary range based on consideration of the qualifications, experience of the applicant, and an internal equity review of the salaries of other employees.

About the job:
In accordance with the established vision and values of the organization, the Clinical Specialist provides clinical expertise and leadership to the programs and services within the area of responsibility to support the success of the portfolio. The Clinical Specialist is the content expert for clinical best practice and develops and recommends program plans, standards, and guidance documents as aligned with program and health authority priorities.

The Clinical Specialist ensures that all clinical and operational plans, standards, and guidance documents are person-centered, consistent with current evidence and best practice, and support the strategic objectives of the organization and Ministry of Health policy direction. The Clinical Specialist provides clinical guidance to quality improvement and evaluation initiatives by assisting in design, interpreting data, and supporting change management and scale and spread of the outcomes.

Typical duties and responsibilities:

• Continuously review the clinical operating environment to identify opportunities and/or gaps, identifying solutions and recommending priorities within existing approved plans, strategies, and organizational priorities. This includes leading clinical best practice and discovering and guiding practices and standards.

• Provides clinical expertise in the development of plans, policies, processes, procedures, strategies, and priorities, ensuring that proposals are robust, operationally feasible and can be expected to deliver a clearly described person-centered benefit and high quality service delivery. This includes the regional guidance and development of clinical decision support tools, clinical operational standards, and creation and execution of clinical educational frameworks for clinical practice standardization within the assigned portfolio.

• Maintains a strong working knowledge of current Ministry of Health policies, procedures, evidence based best practice and using that knowledge to inform planning and implementing initiatives. This includes working with provincial leaders from other Health Authorities and participating in work with the Ministry of Health.

• Participates in or leads the development of indicators for the assigned portfolio in collaboration with Clinical Operations and as required, other portfolios across IH. Monitors and responds to changing health status needs. Collects, compiles, analyzes, and interprets statistical data to monitor program outcomes, enhance performance and identify emerging issues and trends.

• Liaises with internal and external partners, programs, and portfolios.

• May develop clinical service goals and monitoring frameworks for contracted services and supports managers in reviewing contract performance.

• In alignment with IH’s Occupational Health & Safety Program, employees shall adhere to all Occupational Health and Safety policies and procedures at all times and attend all required training. Employees are responsible to report any identified hazards, unsafe conditions or incidents to the manager or supervisor immediately.

• Provides clinical support and expertise to clinical educators when required.

Qualfications
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 Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).

Education, Training and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a health related field.
• Current practicing registration with the applicable professional college.
• Five to seven years of recent, related experience, including experience in developing clinical practice documents and developing, implementing, and evaluating clinical large-scale multi-portfolio projects.
• Or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

Experience in Occupational or Physical Therapy (OT/PT) is also accepted.

Skills and Abilities
• Knowledge and ability to work with diverse populations, incorporating diverse perspectives, values, and approaches into planning.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and analyze situations and problems such that viable solutions are found. Approaches challenges and complexities from a systems perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to guide individuals toward a vision while maintaining group cohesion, motivation, commitment, and effectiveness. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to introduce and manage purposeful change that is consistent with the mission, vision, values, and operating principles of IH.
• Demonstrated ability to identify strategies and opportunities in a dynamic environment that lead to identified outcomes.
• Ability to critically analyze and synthesize evidence, and utilization/statistical data.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing, including the ability to facilitate and negotiate. This includes the ability to work and collaborate virtually.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
• Ability to remain flexible and adapt to frequent changing needs and priorities.
• Hold a valid BC Driver’s license and the ability to travel.


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