Director, Professional Practice

6 months ago


Vancouver, Canada PHSA Full time

**Director, Professional Practice - Allied Health**

***BC Cancer

Vancouver, British Columbia

You are an innovative and knowledgeable leader with a solid career track in professional practice legislation, education, and research. Your range of experience encompasses both strategy and operations, and you approach your work with an aim to collaborate, include multiple key partners, educate, and ultimately to provide the best care to every patient. Regarded as an expert in professional practice standards by colleagues, you’re keen to share your knowledge, develop resources, and mentor others, including health care professionals and leaders across the province. Along with promoting the highest standards within your work portfolio, you’re also committed to your team’s own health, supporting quality of work life and improvements to equity, diversity, inclusion and elimination of anti-Indigenous racism.

**What you’ll do**

The Director, Professional Practice reports to the Executive Director, Professional Practice and Learning & Development, and is accountable for providing strategic, operational, and educational leadership for nursing and allied health professional practice across BC Cancer. This role will play an integral part in defining the quality-of-care processes and creating quality practice environments in collaboration with key partners, including other health authorities, the Ministry of Health, colleges, universities, professional associations, and regulatory bodies. High-level accountabilities include:

- Plan, develop, and evaluate the annual operating plans for professional practice, in alignment with the mission, vision, and direction of PHSA and BC Cancer.
- Implement changes to professional practice standards to eliminate anti-Indigenous racism and improves equity, diversity and inclusion is achieved. Foster team spirit, trust, and mutual respect.
- Direct the operational activities of professional practice within BC Cancer, including setting and prioritizing deliverables, leading Professional Practice staff, and assisting team members to define shared and individual goals and meet target dates.
- Oversee the recruitment, development, and retention of professional practice leaders. Evaluate individual and project team performance in collaboration with appropriate partners.
- Assess resources, utilize patterns, models of care, skill mix, and supply issues, make recommendations to operational and practice leaders to promote patient safety, best practices, patient access, and efficient flow across the care continuum.
- Develop and manage operational budgets, monitor expenditures, perform variance analysis, and support annual capital planning process within the context of operational demands and environmental and resource constraints and use best utilization methods.
- Foster relationships within professional practice and with other key partners to advance professional practice issues and promote best practices within the applicable programs.

**What you bring**

**Qualifications**:

- Master’s Degree in an applicable professional or related discipline, or an equivalent level of education, training, and experience.
- 10+ years of progressive leadership responsibility in a complex health care or academic health sciences environment.
- Current practicing registration with an applicable allied health discipline college in British Columbia (e.g., BC College of Social Workers (BCCSW), College of Dietitians of British Columbia, etc.)

Skills & Knowledge
- Thorough understanding of professional practice legislation and controls on practice, with comprehensive knowledge of professional practice issues and future directions for Professional practice at the provincial and national levels.
- Broad knowledge of interprofessional practice and education; models of care delivery across a variety of disciplines and settings; research processes and methodology.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, set, and accomplish objectives and goals in a complex, fast-paced, matrix environment, working well both independently and in collaboration with others.
- Demonstrated leadership, communication, interpersonal, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise, coach, mentor and model key behaviors to staff.
- Proven ability to build networks and develop mutually beneficial working relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to critically analyze industry and professional literature; to develop quality assessment systems/tools; and to use creativity and innovation to develop strategies.
- Demonstrated knowledge of collective agreements, applicable legislation as well as principles of union/management relationships.
- Ability to develop and manage a budget, monitor expenditures, and perform variance analysis.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents - including Truth & Reconciliation Commissio



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