Manager Patient Access

Why Fraser Health?: Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to six Métis Chartered Communities. Our team of 45,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care. Learn more. We currently have an exciting opportunity for a **Full Time - Manager Patient Access & Community Transition** to join our team at **Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre** located in **Abbotsford** **, B.C. **We hire great people for outstanding jobs and need your help to expand the ability to deliver prompt and professional service. **Come work with us** Fraser Health is proudly recognized as a BC Top Employer. Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields, career growth and advancement, a competitive compensation package (including four weeks of vacation to start, comprehensive health benefits, and pension plan), and the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care. Effective October 26, 2021 all staff for all positions across health care in British Columbia are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and there are no exceptions. Fraser Health values diversity in the work force and strives to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner. Connect with us on our Careers social channels where you’ll learn about exciting opportunities, get career tips from our recruiters, and meet some of your future team members You can also visit us on Indeed and Glassdoor. Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | TikTok Detailed Overview: **Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families**: The Manager, Patient Access & Community Transition provides operational oversight and management of patient access and transitions within the site, between hospitals, and between hospitals and community, to ensure quality patient care, effective patient outcomes and positive patient experience. Oversees and manages designated clinical and /or administrative areas at the site which support Access and Community Transition functions, as well as areas which provide general support to site operations. **Responsibilities**: - In collaboration with the Executive Director, Directors and site team members, provides operational oversight and management of patient access, flow and transitions between clinical areas within the site, between hospitals and between hospitals and community to ensure quality patient care, effective patient outcomes and positive patient experience. - Leads the development of "right service" in hospital and community through the development and implementation of a framework to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of patient placement, access, flow and transition between acute and community care. - In collaboration with department and clinical support areas, identifies barriers to patient flow and provides leadership and management to reduce barriers, address patient flow issues and facilitate improvement. - Monitors, tracks and evaluates access and flow performance utilizing MOH and FH criteria/indicators. Utilizes processes & indicators of patient flow through the use of EDD, 11am and readmissions. Monitors hospital occupancy and use of overflow spaces; utilizes 10 hour performance and processes to move patients to right location; develops protocols to address unusual access, flow and transition demands. - Creates and implements seamless points of transition between acute and community care/services, and evaluates the effectiveness of transition points to/from community (i.e. ALC-HH; EARs; Communicare etc.). Establishes and maintains effective working relationships, ongoing communications with medical staff, other departments/programs at and across sites/community areas and other internal and external stakeholders; ensures Director(s) are informed of significant access/flow/transition activities or developments. - Ensures an effective complex discharge process at the site by providing oversight, leadership and management of access-related resources, departments or roles such as case management, counselling or other related functions which support the complex discharge process. - Responsible for the designation