Professional Practice Leader

2 weeks ago


Kingston, Canada Kingston Health Sciences Centre Full time

**Title**: Professional Practice Lead
- Nursing

**Position**: 50069346

**Hours of Work**:Temporary Full-Time Position; Days (Approximately 17 months)

**Department**:Professional Practice

**Salary**: Class 8: $51.83 - $62.20 per hour

**Union**: Non-Union

**Location**: Kingston General Hospital Site

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Professional Practice Lead
- Nursing provides leadership for the nursing profession within the interprofessional team and is accountable for leading and facilitation of the development, integration and evaluation of practice standards, best practice standards and practice models that promote clinical care and professional practice. This includes overseeing all clinical education such as orientation of new staff, monitoring and evaluating nursing staff that is having difficulty with their practice, products/equipment changes and implementing changes in practice or models of care. Within this role the PPL is accountable for contributing to the delivery of KHSC’s corporate strategy and tactics under the strategic directions and consistently demonstrates an awareness and promotion of patient, and family centered engagement and care.

**RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES INCLUDE**:
Provides operational leadership to the Clinical Learning Specialists and Interprofessional Learning Specialist team (26 staff divided by two PPL-Nursing)
- Manages work assignments, prioritization, performance and facilitation of issue management.
- Accountable to budgeting, financial reporting and utilization and deployment of clinical education resources for clinical education for the whole organization.
- Responsible for performance management and disciplinary measures as required for positions within the portfolio.
- Evaluates performance and completes performance agreements
- Responsible for development of staff and quality improvement initiatives
- Accountable for all clinical education for both sites (HDH and KGH) including planning, staffing, budgeting, setting goals and objectives through the process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. Examples are orientation of new staff, products/equipment changes and changes in practice or model of care, monitoring and evaluating nursing staff and support the Clinical Learning Specialist with the development of learning plans for nurses that are struggling with practice in order to evaluate learning needs and gaps in practice..

Plan, develop and implement practice initiatives in alignment with corporate or program priorities including:

- In collaboration with key stakeholders, leads and facilitates innovation in the implementation and evaluation of best practices and practice models that promote the integration of best practice, education, clinical care and interprofessional practice
- Is accountable for implementing, sustaining and evaluating practice and educational priorities identified by the programs within the PPL-Nursing’s portfolio
- Obtains feedback regularly from corporate and program-level leadership teams and is able to re-prioritize corporate and program priorities as required to ensure alignment with organizational direction

Procures, implements and evaluates clinical products and equipment used at KHSC:

- Accountable for the evaluation of products and equipment and providing data to KHSC leaders on supply chain contracts to ensure that all product/equipment contracts are signed on time and fiscally responsible for the hospital
- Make corporate decision of what products will be purchased and evaluation of the products (i.e. financial implications of the contract and impact on clinician practice and patient care)
- Leads product trials to confirm product usability, safety, and suitability for the organization
- Problem solve replacement for backorders and highlighting any potential clinical practices due to product change
- Member of the regional clinical procurement team to promote standardization of products and equipment across the LHI

Provides oversight of clinical policy/best practices and care pathway development, including:

- Sustainable transition to more relevant structure with impact at all levels (point of care to internal and exportable metrics),
- Bringing process and structure to corporate projects e.g. health information system implementation, quality initiatives (falls, pressure injuries)
- Lead change management for nursing documentation and clinical workflow processes in response to HIS transformation
- Interprets corporate and program-level data and develops recommendations in collaboration with Patient Safety, Quality and Risk
- Provides operational data and information to leadership of KHSC and develops recommendations to support quality improvement
- Reports data and quality improvement initiatives externally as appropriate to meet contract requirements (i.e. RNAO)

Responsible for the professional practice of all nurses at both sites.
- Problem solving when questions about practice arise, provide recommendations regarding what



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