Implementation Specialist

**Job Description**:
**Implementation Specialist, Long Term Care**

**Contract - 13 month - Full Time**

**Health Services - Long Term Care**

**Care, Compassion, Love, Respect**

The Long-Term Care Division requires staff to provide person-centered care to our residents and families following the Butterfly Model of Care. This will ensure high levels of emotional wellbeing and a better quality of life for those living in our homes. Staff are to have emotional intelligence ability to deliver person-centered care in an authentic way that is meaningful to the resident and their family.

While you won’t be providing direct resident care, you will play an integral role:

- In the **implementation of regulatory and legislative changes** from the Fixing Long Term Care Act and Ontario Regulation 246/22

Do you enjoy
**policy development**,
**evidence-based research and analysis** that leads to informed decisions?

Do work
**collaboratively** and have
**project and change management experience?**

**_This may be an opportunity for you_**:

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Reporting to the Manager, Practice, Innovation, Education you will liaise with internal and external partners, conduct evidence-based research and analysis and implement legislative and regulatory changes across the 5 Region of Peel operated homes

**What you will do**:

- Develop detailed workplans, lead the implementation and operational changes across all five Long Term Care homes reflecting legislative and regulatory changes
- Liaise with internal and external partners (including those from the Long-Term Care Division, provincial government stakeholders, and the broader health system), share practices, discuss emerging requirements, participate in working groups, and identify impacts to the division
- Conduct evidence-based research, analysis and evaluation for informed decision making related to legislative and regulatory changes
- Develop and/or contribute to Council reports, presentations, communications, briefing notes, Divisional guidelines and other resources to support implementation
- Monitor status and regular reporting of implementation deliverables to Project Manager and other stakeholders
- Utilize change management principles to support communication and implementation of process and policy changes
- Maintain collaborative and supportive working relationships with key internal and external partners and stakeholders
- Monitor and evaluate quality and outcomes of project deliverables
- Plan and coordinate updates to operational practices and support development of new or revised business processes based on evolving provincial and local direction
- Provide input into risks management plans and risk mitigation strategies

**Qualifications**:

- University degree in Health Sciences or Business Administration, a minimum of five years’ experience in related progressive positions
- An equivalent combination of education and experience will also be considered
- Experience in Long Term Care, with knowledge of the Long Term Care Homes Act, Fixing Long Term Care Act, 2021 and Ontario Regulation 246/22
- Excellent skills in policy development, quantitative analysis and research, with a demonstrated ability to gather, synthesize, evaluate, interpret information from diverse sources
- Working knowledge of Project Management Body of Knowledge and Change Management processes
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- A collaborative and consultative leadership style
- Organized, with strong time management skills

**Location**: In this role you will have the ability to work remotely and attend on-site when required based on operational requirements at 10 Peel Centre Drive. The frequency of on-site activities may vary on a weekly basis and based on operational requirements. Your remote work location must be located within the province of Ontario

**Contract Duration**: 13 months

**Hours of work**: 35 hours per week. The Region of Peel offers job based flexible hours of work that allows employees to manage personal and professional responsibilities while at the same time ensures business operational needs and customer service expectations are achieved.

**Compensation**: $ 84,335 - $105,417 per year plus comprehensive long term contract benefit package
- Vulnerable Sector Police Check
- TB Skin Testing
- Proof of Vaccination COVID19 (including 3rd booster)

**Interview**: Our recruitment process will be completed with video conference technology.

**As part of the Region’s ongoing commitment to health and safety, there are enhanced Covid-19 specific safety protocols and/or personal protective equipment requirements (e.g. masks, eye protection, etc.) in place to help protect health and safety. The additional requirements are determined based on the nature of the work being carried out.**

**New employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Being fully vaccinated is determined as the status of having received the