Indigenous Patient Care Quality Officer
3 days ago
The Indigenous Patient Care Quality Officer provides leadership and consultation in the identification, management, resolution, and education of patient/client issues, with a primary focus on supporting complaints made by Indigenous patients and families.
Key Responsibilities- Provides expert support to Directors, Medical Directors, and Managers in the management of client feedback activities, bringing an Indigenous-specific decolonizing and anti-racist lens to the management of Indigenous and non-Indigenous patient/client and family feedback and complaints activities.
- Collaborates with key stakeholders regarding patient/client complaints and concerns, and supports a culturally safe and appropriate resolution of issues.
- Minimizes risk to the organization by working with risk management as needed.
- Promotes the use of client feedback information management systems to effectively track and manage client feedback.
- Provides advice and consultation regarding the management of Indigenous client feedback/complaints, including both verbal and written communication and courses of action when initial steps do not resolve issues to a complainant's satisfaction.
- Works in partnership with other staff as needed, supports Indigenous patients and families to report concerns about care.
- Assists Indigenous and non-Indigenous families and clients with the complaints process, with a priority focus on supporting Indigenous patients and families.
- Facilitates effective triaging of complaints, determines appropriate action, and timely follow-up in response to patient/family complaints or related situations.
- Assists in the maintenance and development of client feedback information management systems, ensuring that client feedback is documented, the status of investigation and resolution is monitored, and activities and outcomes are analyzed and reported for accountability and improvement purposes.
- Serves as a liaison between patients/families and the organization and the community, with a focus on Indigenous patients/families and Indigenous communities, assisting patients/families to know and understand their rights and responsibilities and to navigate through the organization's processes.
- Remains current on relevant legislation, regulations, standards, and common law, collaborating with other departments such as Legal Services, Information, Access & Privacy, and Risk Management.
- Provides and facilitates education opportunities for key stakeholders and staff about the unique experiences and priorities of Indigenous patients/families and the requirement of enhancing cultural safety and humility throughout complaints processes.
- A level of education, training, and experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree in Health Administration or one of the health disciplines or other relevant area, plus three (3) years' related conflict resolution/crisis intervention experience, including one (1) year of recent related experience in any of the following areas: Indigenous-specific anti-racism work, or work in the Indigenous health sector, inclusive of facilitation related to Indigenous cultural safety, Indigenous health administration, or direct health service delivery.
- Comprehensive knowledge of Indigenous cultural safety and humility within health services contexts and completion of training in Indigenous cultural safety and trauma-informed practice.
- Preference will be given to candidates who identify as Indigenous, including First Nations, Métis, or Inuit.
- Demonstrated knowledge of pertinent laws and legislation, including the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the Patient Care Quality Review Board Act, and the Residents' Bill of Rights.
- Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of Indigenous worldviews and perspectives of health and wellness and/or demonstrated allyship.
- Demonstrated proficient knowledge of Indigenous cultural safety and humility within health services contexts.
- Demonstrated knowledge of systemic discrimination, anti-Indigenous racism, colonization, and social determinants of health.
- Demonstrated understanding of BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action.
- Demonstrated knowledge of client relations and complaints management best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise judgment and sensitivity working with complex, confidential, and sensitive issues.
- Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare system issues and functions.
- Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
- Knowledge of social, economic, political, and historical realities of settler colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and familiarity with addressing Indigenous-specific anti-racism, anti-racism, and Indigenous Cultural Safety and foundational documents and legislative commitments.
PHSA is committed to equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently marginalized groups identified under the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
One of PHSA's North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes dismantling barriers to healthcare employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya'kula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at.
Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and marginalization faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and self-determination of Indigenous communities. PHSA must uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan, and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.
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