Director, Nursing Practice Excellence
2 weeks ago
**Who We Are**:
London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning. In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support he wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children’s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time.
**Posting Period**:
February 8, 2024 - March 7, 2024
**Job Summary**:
**What the Role is**
Reporting to the Corporate Nursing Executive, and working in a team of four directors, the Director, Nursing Practice Excellence provides evidence-informed leadership and direction to inform and implement strategic nursing priorities across the organization, achieve nursing practice excellence, strengthen systematic organization-wide competency-based nursing education and skill-building, understand and address organization-wide nursing issues, and support the advancement of innovation in nursing practice at LHSC.
The Director, Nursing Practice Excellence, creates internal and external partnerships to strengthen nursing and promote effective interprofessional practice. They will identify and advance strategies to support the recruitment and retention of nurses. In supporting nursing excellence and innovation, the Director is expected to collaborate and partner with various teams and committees focused on patient safety and quality of care, occupational health and safety, health ethics, workplace health, information technology, and health equity and inclusion, as well as with regional partners. They advocate for and build capacity to support individual and organizational compliance with nursing-related legislative and regulatory requirements, and work to identify and address related concerns. The Director consistently contributes to a safe and inclusive working environment, and engages in effective change and transition management practices.
This particular role is accountable to a portfolio responsible for overseeing and supporting Nursing Practice Excellence within the below programs:
- Surgical Services
- OR, PACU and Day Surgery Units
- Paediatric PACU
- Critical Care and Level Two Care
- Adult Emergency Services
- Multi-Organ Transplant Program
The Director provides leadership to and operational oversight to approximately 20 employees including Clinical Educators and Professional Practice Consultants. The office for Nursing Practice Excellence is located at Victoria Hospital.
NOTE: this role is required to be on-call, evenings and weekends on a rotational basis within the Director On-Call model across LHSC.
**Qualifications**:
**Who You Are**
- You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
- You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
- You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
- You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
- You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
- You create connections, build partnerships and networks
- You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
- You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
- You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
- You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills
- You have demonstrated knowledge of and expertise in leading and facilitating large-scale change and transition to improve clinical practice, person-centred care, and patient outcomes
- You have expertise in evidence-informed decision-making, strategic and operational planning, implementation, and evaluation
- You have expertise in and demonstrated commitment to building individual and organizational capacity for nursing excellence and a quality and safety culture, and inspiring continuous improvement
- You have demonstrated understanding of and ability to promote adherence to nursing-related legislation, regulations, and standards in an acute care setting
- You have demonstrated ability to deliver results with excellent financia
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