Manager, Health Services

**GENERAL**

**Description**:

- Manager, Health Services - Mental Health

**Competition #**:

- SEL MH 531/25

**Posting Date**:

- 03/06/2025

**Status**:

- Active

**Type**:

- External

**DESCRIPTION**

**The Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority**
Our Vision
We will be recognized as a trusted health-care partner, providing sustainable, accessible, integrated, evidence-based care to improve health status and outcomes in all of our communities and achieve health equity across the region.
Our Mission
We work in partnership with all stakeholders, contributing to the health and well-being of our communities, by providing timely access to reliable care in a culturally safe manner that respects diversity.
Our Values
Always with compassion, Success in collaboration, Accountability in everything we do, Acting with integrity, Respectful of each other

**Collaboration | Accessibility | Respect | Excellence | Innovation | Quality Customer Service**

**Manager, Health Services**
**Manager Hlth Services_22**

**Closing Date**:

- 03/13/2025

**Facility / Site**:

- Selkirk MH Crisis Services

**Posting Type**:
**Position Type**:

- Full-Time

**Hours of Work**:

- Days

**Term Dates**:

- 05/14/2025 - 11/10/2026

**FTE**:

- 1

**Union Group**:

- Non-Union

**Wage / Salary**:

- To commensurate with experience & qualifications

**Position Summary**:Under the direction of the Director Health Services or designate, the Manager Health Services oversees and manages inter-disciplinary team(s) consisting of staff who provide direct care to patients/residents/clients. This position is responsible to lead and ensure delivery of safe, effective and efficient health services. Inspires and leads health services staff across the organization to embrace and adopt integrated, patient/resident/client-centered care pathways and service delivery models. Accountable to provide service-delivery focused operational management in a fiscally responsible manner, partnering closely with leadership, internal and external stakeholders to support patients/residents/clients in accessing multiculturally respectful health services. Monitors and evaluates key performance indicators and collaborates with stakeholders to ensure safe, effective and appropriate patient/resident/client care through the clinical quality framework and patient/resident/client care lens that will shape an environment for clinical and service excellence.

This position is guided by prescribed frameworks, the foundational documents of the Interlake-Eastern Regional Health Authority including the vision, mission, values and policies, available tools, models, methods and standards to support best practices from established independent organizations, and applicable legislation, regulations and standards.

**Qualifications**:

- Post-secondary degree in a relevant health discipline from an accredited education institution.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- Active member in good standing of an associated regulatory body as appropriate.
- 3 - 5 years of leadership experience in a patient/resident/client care setting including:

- 5 years of related direct clinical services delivery across one or more assigned clinical areas of health care such as:

- primary health, and/or community services including population health, health promotion and illness prevention for diverse populations across the human lifespan.
- acute inpatient, specialty care and complex ambulatory settings.
- integrating innovative community-based care modes (such as home care, primary care, etc.) to optimize healthy aging, health restoration and maintenance, and to deliver high quality care in the areas of chronic disease, palliative care, community mental health, rehabilitation and/or long-term care.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities. The provincial health system in Manitoba has adopted the LEADS in a Caring Environment framework.
- Knowledge of:

- relevant professional regulatory requirements including standards and scope of practice for direct reports.
- relevant legislated acts including but not limited to Personal Health Information Act, Protection of Persons in Care Act, Mental Health Act, Workplace Hazardous Material Information System (WHMIS), Principles of Routine Practices (Universal Precautions).
- relevant Collective Agreements.
- working with individuals from diverse cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds.
- regional/site/unit policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines relating to: clinical care, administrative, financial, and human resource management.
- Valid Manitoba driver’s license.
- Mental and physical ability to meet the demands of the position.
- Given the cultural diversity of our region, the ability to communicate in more than one language would be considered an asset.
- Proficiency of both official languages is essential for target and designated bilingual positions.
- Completes and maintains a satisfactory pre-employment sec