Health Emergency Management

4 months ago

Vancouver, Canada PHSA Full time

**Health Emergency Management (HEM) Specialist, Projects and Initiatives**

PHSA Corporate

Vancouver, BC

In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of Provincial Health Services Authority, patient safety is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA, and as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position.

Reporting to a Director or Manager, Health Emergency Management BC (HEMBC), and operating as the internal project management office for the assigned team, the Specialist provides advice and guidance to health authority leadership, management and staff, as well as internal HEMBC team members who support emergency management in assigned geographic or program portfolios. The Specialist works closely with health authority senior leadership, advising on emergency management matters and facilitates emergency operations centre activities 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, First Nations Health Authority, and community partners to ensure appropriate integration of HEMBC planning activities with similar activities across the provincial healthcare system.

The Specialist contributes to the development of the program budget, strategic priorities for the assigned team, as well as the health emergency management portfolio for the Health Authority. The Specialist develops, recommends, and implements integrated emergency management plans; leads site/sector emergency plans standards, ensuring alignment with corporate and provincial plans and established policies and procedures. Leads, organizes or participates in exercise programs, education and training for the assigned area.

**What you’ll do**
- Leads and/or project manages multi-stakeholder/cross sector projects specific to the development, implementation, maintenance and evaluation of the assigned emergency management program, based on accreditation, international standards and best practices. Identifies and recommends activities and resources to support continuous improvement and innovation projects in emergency management, while ensuring compliance with policies and agreements.
- Works with health authority leadership in addition to leadership from external organizations such as local governments and government ministries to negotiate the direction of projects and initiatives with the parameters established by the HEMBC senior leadership team. Leads provincial projects, negotiating with leadership to set the direction of the specific project and come to consensus on priorities and timelines such as the Health Authority Patient Relocation project.
- Provides advice and guidance to health authority leadership, ensuring that emergency management principles are central to decision-making with the goal to minimize impacts on the health system. Makes recommendations to HEMBC’s leadership team on ways to improve emergency management in the health system.
- Supports inter and intra health authority collaboration to determine emergency management strategies; supports regional plan development, implementation and maintenance to ensure continuity, consistency and standardization of strategies across the region and province. Represents HEMBC and health authorities on committees with a wide variety of health sector and external partners, at the executive and regional levels. Supports emergency management communication linkages across / between sites and programs, between health authorities, with the Ministry of Health, and with external (non-health) partners as the emergency management liaison.
- Leads knowledge management processes to provide a common structure and organization scheme to support organizational objectives. Act as knowledge brokers; support and leverage the expertise and knowledge of various teams, the health authority staff, and community partners by sharing information, making tools and resources easily available to staff, and promote learning and development to enable partners to provide patient care during emergencies. Conducts audits on information and access, and recommends improvements and optimizations to increase information access for stakeholders.
- Leads regional planning efforts based on current, emerging, and urgent risks, to support mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery efforts, including hazard-specific planning (i.e. tsunami) and planning for climate related hazards (i.e. seasonal hazards).
- Assists with quality and safety, and evaluation initiatives, including accreditation and auditing assessments, as well as assessing and reporting on the progress of meeting recommendations.
- Develops and provides emergency management education and training sessions; maintains and de

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